Outside of hunting medium game and larger, is there any real reason why one should care about calibers other than .22lr in rifles or handguns?
Outside of hunting medium game and larger, is there any real reason why one should care about calibers other than .22lr in rifles or handguns?
.22 is fricking garbage for everything unless you're a 10 year old female.
>t. shit shooter who has no clue what they're doing
>muh reliability
Revolvers exist. Just pull the trigger again.
>muh fighting rifle
>muh sneedmore
You have no idea what you're doing.
>you should cope with the inferior reliability of a 19th century cartridge by using a clockwork-actuated 19th century gun
or you could buy literally any wonder 9 made since 1980 and end up with a better gun in a better cartridge
It's a troll, he reports some variant of it after every 404.
Report and hide.
>NOOO YOU CAN'T USE AMMO THAT YOU CAN CHEAPLY SHOOT SHIT TONS OF AND GET TONS OF PRACTICE IN WITH
Nobody is saying you can't buy and use your poorgay cope cartridges. What we're saying is you're a fricking moron for thinking it's "all anyone needs".
Man am i sick of you /k city homosexuals. 10/22 sits by my door and protects my farm. Coyote,bobcat, coon, skunks, feral cats. I dont want to be lighting off the 556 at 2:30am to smack a coon with a imi 77grain otm. .22 helped build this country.
Low quality bait.
How is that bait? He's right about the proper use of .22, small game and pest control. Not like moron OP who thinks it's all he needs because it's all he can afford.
Aint bait. I can tell the grab the .22 LGD bark and the keep sleeping bark.
Urbanite detected. have a nice day, Black person.
Bait: the thread.
Self defense. Although yeah .22lr is an excellent round, I see no reason to use a rim fire for SD when center fire is avalible. I'd take 25 or 32 ACP any day over a rimfire.
Outside of hunting medium tanks and larger, is there any real reason why one should care about calibers other than 25mm in autocannons?
>Outside of hunting medium game and larger, is there any real reason why one should care about calibers other than .22lr
They're fun. .22 doesn't have any bite so it gets boring after a while. 9x19 is good for a self defense round, 5.56x45 is a good fighting rifle round, .308 win and 6.5 cm are great long range rounds. And you'll want some kind of rifle cartridge if you're shooting past 100m
Just have a bit of imagination anon plenty of reasons to have other calibers.
Why did it take so long to make a SWC in 22LR? Seems like common sense that it would improve penetration but no one else was doing it.
>calls that a SWC
I hate newbies
those type of bullets don't usually run well in autoloaders
Because .22 is extremely weak compared to almost everything else
>posting the same shitty image with your same shitty bait thread again
Biathlon
>trolling outside of /b/
Bye bye
A better way to say this would he "outside of hunting small game, is there any reason to care about .22 LR?" And the answer is no. The use you listed op is extremely niche, and .22 has, for nearly a century, been a round for basic hunting and practice shooting. Not that it's a bad round, for small game it's a great round. But for self defense, military applications, larger game, or things that fly, there are better calibers.
>But for self defense
Except it's good enough for self defense once you drop the action hero fantasies and stop thinking the caliber you carry is a measurement of your dick size.
>military applications
Ah yes, for the moronic fantasy situations where you're a soldier but you need to bring your own gear and logistics.
>larger game
The problem there is primarily legal caliber requirements rather than power outside of big game. Airgun hunters regularly demonstrate that you can get the job done with much less so long as you aren't a shit shot.
>things that fly
We're talking about handguns and rifles here.
>c-cope
I'll enjoy getting to put a few times as many rounds down range for the same cost, while you cope with shooting less because you're worried about non issue.
>akshully .22LR is better because...I'M POOR OKAY STOP MOCKING ME
At least you admit literally the only advantage your anemic and obsolete meme round has is the effect on your already empty wallet. Have you tried not being poor? Buying a worse product because you're too poor for a good one is the definition of cope.
>y-you're poor
What's poor about shooting the same amount of ammo once a week rather than once a month due to how much cheaper it is? You seem upset about not being able to afford your poor choices.
If you can't afford to train with 9mm, you're too poor to train with 9mm. You don't have to be so defensive and ashamed of it. Just admit you can't afford a real round and hope .22LR will stop a coked up Black person before he steals the 12" CRT you got at Goodwill.
Yeah, and if you can afford to train with 9mm, you can afford to train 4x-5x more with .22lr. Seethe more.
Better to have both. Variety is the spice of life.
>fire five hundred rounds training for a self defense scenario with an anemic, unreliable, two hundred year old cartridge in an antique wheelgat
>fire a hundred rounds training for a self defense scenario with a reliable autoloading cartridge used by militaries for a century in a modern sidearm
You do you, limpwrist-kun.
>opting for 100 rounds because muh military LARP rather than 500 rounds of something that has done the job just fine when in capable hands for more than a century
Just stop being poor.
>not getting 2 guns
>or a conversion kit
>not training with both rounds
>cheaper round to get used to controls to the point operating it is like breathing
>then switching to the other caliber after to adjust
>then switching between the two as desired
>self defense
>22lr
Anon, go find a wild boar and attempt to kill it with a 22lr caliber handgun/revolver within 30ft. Make sure to record yourself doing it. If the boar charges you and you managed to stop it, congrats, you survived a simulated assault scenario. If not, well, sucks but maybe the 22lr wasn't enough or you just can't aim for shit.
>small game hunting
>extremely niche
What the frick man
22lr is notoriously dirty and unreliable compared to other rounds. Almost every malfunction I’ve had has been with a semi auto 22 weapon of some sort
I like the 22lr. It's fun to mag dump and doesn't hurt the wallet. However, it's pretty shit outside of small game at close ranges and plinking.
.22lr has its place but if I had to pick between my Ruger 10/22 and my Norinco AK to trust my life with, I'd take the 7.62x39 spitter everyday and twice on Sunday.
Is this underage cope?
Daddy won't let you have anything more than a .22?
I love .22. It shoots Hollywood quiet with a suppressor. You have 29gr all the way to 60gr. It works in revolvers, autoloaders, pumps, lever action, and bolt action. It’s cheap, nearly always available, and light weight. It’s the perfect camping and bug out round. Anyone can comfortably learn the fundamentals on a .22. The guns that fire it are everywhere. One can easily shoot 1000 rounds and not regret the price.
>It’s the perfect camping and bug out round
It's ridiculous when you consider just how much more .22lr can fit in a given weight/volume. Vs common handgun ammo you're looking at 4x-5x more ammo. With rifle cartridges you're starting to look at 5x-8x more ammo.