Bolt action .22

Kevin the grey said:
Runningboar Fayettville sounds nice . I hear you guys have a longer deer hunting season with larger bag limits ?

A couple or a few rawhided fox-squirrel pelts would be great . I,ve never made a rawhide one which my buddy wants me to do before he shows me how to make one from horse hair . (Thats a toughy) Do you happen to know an easy way to tan them ?
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I deer hunt in Ga, I am allowed to take 13 deer, I think, I get land owner tags so really I kill what I need. :D

Sorry I don't know how to tan hides, but they may not need to be tanned to make a bowstring.:confused:
 
13 Deer ! Start up the B:B:Q: you are gonna have guests this fall . L:O:L

That is just great . Man you must need a good sized freezer for that .

Actually like you said . Tanning the little buggers was a separate issue . I,ve never tanned and you never know when someone has a great way to do it .

I think the rawhided skins are cut and stretched after being wet with water and then oiled . That makes the rawhide more pliable . When you get to filling your pot this fall just trim off the legs to make it fit better in an envelope let em dry flat and send em on up . Heck maybe I,ll even stuff one of them and scare our dinky little city squirrels half to death . L:O:L
 
I have handled fur before, no pun intended,:eek: but I will make a stretcher, case skin, stretch and dry and send them your way. :thumbup:
 
No, seriously, I am not thinking about spending $500 on a .22. Although I have a friend who spent almost that much on a .177 RWS 350 magnum, 1000fps, scoped up. He loaned it to me once when I had to clean out some pigeons from a barn. Just walk in and close the barn door behind you. That was a nasty and interesting afternoon. I liked it so much I bought myself a much less expensive Gamo Shadow the following year for my own vermin control at home. ButI'm looking for a simple work-horse .22.
 
Kevin and runningboar: You want to save the deer sinew, dried, for Kevin, so he can wrap his fletchings. This is the tendon right behind what I believe is called the cannon bone on the deer. The cannon bones also make great knife handles. You can send me those.
 
Nah the squirrel skins will do me fine . It would be good to work with some sinew . My plate is full enough . I actually have a pretty full winter planned as it is .
 
Don't think too long about getting the CZ trainer! You could be out shooting it!! I highly recommend this rifle! They are a lot of bang for the buck!

These are great little shooter and in my opinion look much better than the other CZ .22 rifles! I love the Schnabel Forend on these rifles!

Mine shoots GREAT!!

Tom
 
Thanks, Tom, your opinion, and those of others on this rifle, is worth a lot. I like the looks of it too. Don
 
Kevin, sinew is real easy to work with. You get a chunk of that tendon, looks like beef jerky. You take it to an anvil or some such and pound it into shreds. You pull the shreds apart into threads...finer and finer... that's what you work with.

Here's the hard part. Those threads have to be moistened. I take those threads and chew them full of saliva and then wrap them. Some people are going to say, Eeeww, full of bacteria...well so is my dog and I kiss her goodnight every day (don't ask).

Those moistened threads have a natural glue, or something, they stick together real good. Try it. Brush your teeth afterwards ;)
 
Coldwood said:
Here's the hard part. Those threads have to be moistened. I take those threads and chew them full of saliva and then wrap them. Some people are going to say, Eeeww, full of bacteria...)
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I can just hear the sinew as it heads towards your mouth . Eeeww , full of bacteria . : L:O:L:
 
Coldwood, get yourself either a bolt action or semi-auto Marlin. Cheap and they shoot good. Savage makes a pretty good inexpensive 22 rifle too. I have graduated to finer tastes myself in 22 rifles, but I do have a Ruger 10/22 that shoots okay. Had it a long time. Tend to grab the Weatherby for plinking though. Have a Remington 541-S that shoots really well. Would love to pickup a Cooper one of these days. And, I will probably eventually buy a CZ even though I find their bolts stiff. My first 22 rifle was a Mossberg; so we all change over time if you keep shooting 22's.
 
My Cooey 600 and weaver scope are still great after 40 years - extremely accurate. Met an older gentleman who worked in the Cooey factory - said they got free ammo on fridays - sweet job
 
I have several .22's , a lot of it is in the ammo.

I skip past anything that says Hyper-this or Lightening-that. Those fast .22lr rounds are hard on the ears, and give very little extra in terminal energy.
As a projectile approaches the realm of supersonic, it becomes inherantly unstable. Ask Chuck Yeagar.
If it's a centerfire round, it breaks the sound barrier, but keep accelarating well beyond, and stabilizes at those higher speeds. I like the .22lr's that approach but do not break the sound barrier.
There is a reason that the high dollar target .22 rounds don't travel at 1400 fps.

For the money I like Winchester T-22s. Aguila is supposed to be making a nice sub-sonic round, as well. The venerable Remington Sub-Sonic is fine too. Sure, Eley Tenex is great stuff, but, considering the cost, unless I was shooting at a national event, I'd skip it.

I have an old Stevens Model66 bolt action, it shoots just fine.
Iron sights, tubular magazine. Sometimes the basics are all you need.

My babies are the Rugers.
The 10/22 has a bull barrel, target trigger and sear, and and laminated fajen thumbhole stock that I sanded and finished to my liking.

The 77/22 is in Stainless, heavy barrel, laminated stock.
The 77/22 is one heck of a bolt action .22 , sadly, they now cost quite a bit of money, and I can understand why people would have to pass on it.

But, for a bolt action 22lr , I gotta give it to the 77/22, fine piece of machinery.
 
Skunkwerx , I have never done an in depth test of what works best for me . My C:C:I: stingers are the ones that cycle the best in my semi-auto . I have never had a jam with them unlike some of the other brands .

If I ever have extra cash I,ll grab a few boxes and give them a try single shot . I do seem to remember that there was no problem with the C:C:Is and accuracy .
Then again I am not look at my groups with a grouping scope . ( It usually takes a tape measure . ) L:O:L
 
Thanks guys. Off the caliber a bit, but talking about Savages: I still have a break-open single barrel hammerless, with two interchangeable barrels, a 30-30 and 12 guage. Break open the barrel, pull the forestock, it comes apart, and slap in the other barrel. Works like a charm. The first gun my father ever gave me. Very light weight. When you take the barrel off the stock, the two parts would almost qualify as a packable survival gun.
 
I would recommend the THOMPSON CENTER model CLASSIC 22.I bought one this spring and I love the balance and accuracy of the rifle.
 
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