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    Quote Originally Posted by bumblefoot View Post
    I've had my 10/22 since about 1985; never cleaned it! It still shoots about 5 shots into an inch-ish at 50m. That's accurate enough for me for rabbits etc. I never feel it's ethically right to shoot to further than 75m with a .22 on rabbits etc. That old Ruger shot my first deer, pigs, goats, rabbits, hares, wallabies, possums, turkeys, peacocks etc etc. Never let me down
    You don't think it's ethically right to shoot a rabbit at more than 75m with a .22....yet you shot a deer with it

    Did you walk up to the deer and stick the barrel into it's ear hole?
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    Quote Originally Posted by zarathustra View Post
    You don't think it's ethically right to shoot a rabbit at more than 75m with a .22....yet you shot a deer with it Did you walk up to the deer and stick the barrel into it's ear hole?
    No WTF needed.... Let me clarify..... I shot a deer with it when I was about 18; young, dumb and thought I knew it all, as teenagers do. It was only about 15m away (a fallow doe). But it's not something I'd do now as a 57-year old.... You learn as you grow older

    And 75m at a rabbit is ethically far enough for "me" to shoot a rabbit with a .22 (head shot as I don't want to waste meat or risk gut shooting it). I don't think I'm a crack shot; just average. Like I said; you learn as you grow older
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