Thread: 22 wmr vs goats

sold my 22wmr when its favorite flavor of bullets got hard to find and expensive. now they are available again and cheaper.
Hornady 30gr, great on bunnies and possums, only shot 1 goat, bullet blew up on a rib but scrapenal made it to the spine.
loved rem 33gr spbt great accurate all round bullet.
RWS 40gr 1950fps soft point is available here again and is still one of the hottest rim fire loads available. (has been slowed up a little).
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You would definitely want a scope with a ballistic or mil dot reticle if you were running two different loads in the 357. The difference in trajectory is huge! Or it is in my rifle anyway. I use a leupold vx hog on mine, the reticle works pretty good for the two loads I run in mine. You could also run a standard scope in quick detach rings, open sights for goats with the hot load and then put the scope on when your in small game mode. You can get a get a scout mount for the rossi, but your scope choice is then limited to scout scopes or a red dot. However it sounds like you just a .22mag. Just get it if that's what you want, life is too short.

Originally Posted by Calikiwi

You would definitely want a scope with a ballistic or mil dot reticle if you were running two different loads in the 357. The difference in trajectory is huge! Or it is in my rifle anyway. I use a leupold vx hog on mine, the reticle works pretty good for the two loads I run in mine. You could also run a standard scope in quick detach rings, open sights for goats with the hot load and then put the scope on when your in small game mode. You can get a get a scout mount for the rossi, but your scope choice is then limited to scout scopes or a red dot. However it sounds like you just a .22mag. Just get it if that's what you want, life is too short.

Set it up the same way we used to do it in the 'good old days', back when we had the freedom to shoot centrefire semi's - run double optics.
Glass on top for the long shots, and a little red dot on the 45deg for the close stuff.

the 357 runs a graduated vortex. center dot is 357 at 50 and second hash mark is 38 at 25mtrs . seems to work ok . It is the scope that came off my bad gun and used to do the same with that . Center 223 at 100mtrs and second hash 22 at 25mtrs or there abouts...

I’ll put it here as well @Ftx325.....just buy the bloody magnum. Stop fluffing around....


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Originally Posted by tiroahunta

I’ll put it here as well @Ftx325.....just buy the bloody magnum. Stop fluffing around....

But @Ftx325 has to sell the 45/70 to fund the .22 WMR. So I'll put it here as well @tiroahunta ....just buy the bloody 45/70 so he can buy the bloody magnum. You two stop fluffing around...

Originally Posted by Hermitage

But @Ftx325 has to sell the 45/70 to fund the .22 WMR. So I'll put it here as well @tiroahunta ....just buy the bloody 45/70 so he can buy the bloody magnum. You two stop fluffing around...

Ha, I have a 45/70. Don’t need two. I have never indicated any interest in his rifle so me no fluffing FTX is...


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yep , I am . Too many choices and possible avenues versus cost of each choice on top of whether or not to keep the dino gun to help fund any of those choices (which deep down I don't really want to do) is doing my head in a little. Especially when factor in the rifle I would really like in 22 mag is horrendously expensive .... so I want to be sure within myself that I make the right choice and get my money's worth and not decide in 6 months that I made the wrong choice and loose wads of cash on-selling whatever I ended up buying .... And loose the 45 in the process .
And having no experience with 22 mag doesn't help .

And spending the next six months sleeping on the sofa when the missus sees me walk in the door with a new rifle hasn't even factored into it ...... yet ....

like the saying goes , Better to ask forgiveness than permission .....

Fuk thats quite deep and meaning full

no , it's shit - an abstract lesson on how to over complicate a simple decision

I got myself a rossi 7122m. Cheap and cheerful but does the job as well as the 512 I had. To be fair it is a bit pickier on ammo. But if you want some experience with the caliber before investing post of cash it could be an option.

Originally Posted by Nathanfish

I got myself a rossi 7122m. Cheap and cheerful but does the job as well as the 512 I had. To be fair it is a bit pickier on ammo. But if you want some experience with the caliber before investing post of cash it could be an option.

i have one too, bloody accurate. no ammo issues but likes the g30gr hornady

That was good grouping for sure @gonetropo. I wouldn't of expected that from a Rossi , no offense to the brand , so hadn't considered one of those.

And unfortunately I do have expensive tastes in firearms but I tend to buy them for the long term too so happy to pay more for something that gives me a bit of pride of ownership , something a bit special , if you know what I mean.

Nzguns.co.Nz did a side by side review on 3 semi auto 22 magnums that we provided. It included penetration tests etc on game. Worth a read.

Hi @55six . Thanks for that , will check it out.
As an aside is there any news on the nz howa mini chassis
? Are they still coming and any indication as to when ?