For those of you who carry .22's for personal protection

[richardraw316]

OK we can test it, anyone wanna volunteer to let me shoot them with my 22 then my .45? You survive you get to tell me which hurt more!

if i get to choose shot placement and bullet type and maufacture, who knows i might get bored enough to try it.
i was thinking cci shot shells. at 25 feet. it would hurt like a sob, but i doubt it would be lethal.
i have done dumber things.

 

[Sailor]

He was old, smoked his whole life, was on an oxygen tank. he used to smoke while he had the little nose thingys in so he could breath.

He filed a police report saying a bunch of tools were stolen from his machine shop in his barn so he could get money to pay his medical bills. When that didnt work. He decided to take out is .22 hand gun and shoot himself in the temple. That way his life insurance would pay up and handle the bills. The bullet went into his head and never came out.


Little did he know, that life insurance is void when the person kills themselves.

This is not. You just cant kill yourself with in two years of starting the policy. You can not buy the policy with the intent of killing yourself. After two years suicide is covered.

 

[cbseniour]

A 22 in your pocket is better than a .45 in your gun cabinet.

 

[Fordtough25]

The only point i see is carry what you are comfortable with, i usually carry a 9mm, sometimes a 45. I feel safe with either. My choice.

 

[armedindy]

ballistics are funny...nevertheless everyone says they wouldnyt step in front of a .22 and i agree...but what BG or good guy steps in front of ANY barrell...if i had a choice id take .22 over .25 over .380 over 9mm....just being real, your chances increase as the destructive power of the weapon decreases....

 

[Glock19]

if i get to choose shot placement and bullet type and maufacture, who knows i might get bored enough to try it.
i was thinking cci shot shells. at 25 feet. it would hurt like a sob, but i doubt it would be lethal.
i have done dumber things.

Most self defense shootings are less than 10 feet.

 

[jve153]

if put into the situation where my 9mm was further from me than my .22 mosquito, both were loaded and ready to go, i would grab the mosquito knowing i can put ten rounds quickly close to where they need to be (10 shots, 2 seconds, close to minute of man grouping). i would be comfortable with that. it would not be my first choice. my first choice at home is my shotgun, followed by 9mm, .22, .380 bodyguard (i am a LOT more accurate with the .22 than i am with the long trigger pull of the .380, working on it). my ar is kind of a last ditch, maybe ahead of the 380, but knowing the round does not like to stop, and i would be somewhat worried about over penetration.

 

[richardraw316]

Most self defense shootings are less than 10 feet.

i know that, but if i was givin the choice of standing in front of your pistol to decide which hurts more then the test will be set up to the standards i want, not what you think is the most effective range. in my scenario, 45 hurts more, just because of bigger shot, more of it, and more powder pushing it. but i bet they would both still hurt pretty bad. and any closer than i said, and i would not want to be shot by either. i think most sane people would say the same.

 

[sgreen3]

I would rather have a 22 than a stick if the situation would call for me needing to defend myself. But with that said i would rather have my .40 that I carry every day.

 

[Mr Evilwrench]

Pfft, I don't want to stand in front of any of them, and if the .22 is the best thing I can stand behind, so be it. I have a .45 on my hip all the time, though. Just go with it; don't try to deconstruct it. I can do a lot more damage with 13 .45JHPs than with Bill Ruger's 10 .22's. Just sayin.

 

[bwframe]

Unless I'm mistaken, there are no personal defense rounds manufactured or sold in .22 LR? Is the design of the cartridge reliable enough to warrant trusting it for self defense? Is a rimfire cartridge ever guaranteed to be 100% reliable?

 

[lovemachine]

Unless I'm mistaken, there are no personal defense rounds manufactured or sold in .22 LR? Is the design of the cartridge reliable enough to warrant trusting it for self defense? Is a rimfire cartridge ever guaranteed to be 100% reliable?

There's 22lr hollow points. I dunno if it's reliable or not.

 

[Bondhead88]

The best caliber for self defense is any caliber that is any well placed. Having said that I want more stopping power than a 22 offers. I had a 9mm and just went to a 40 S&W. I would consider a 45 as well but ammo is just getting stupid expensive.

If I had nothing else I would use a 22 (maybe even a magic marker if Jackie Chan could show me how to use one in a fight) But I do not want to be in that position while a badguy will bleed out with a 22 I want them falling down as the round hits them.

 

[Bondhead88]

This is not. You just cant kill yourself with in two years of starting the policy. You can not buy the policy with the intent of killing yourself. After two years suicide is covered.

Yup, you're right on that. The reason is people who are going to commit suicide don't wait two years to do it.

 

[GBuck]

Most self defense shootings are less than 10 feet.

Citation?

 

[Glock]

I've seen videos and read stories of people hunting and killing feral hogs with .22 rifles.

 

[PeaShooter]

it does?

Purple is for sarcasm, pink is for ????

 

[sloughfoot]

You guys apparently have never heard of the 22LR Quik-Shok, now manufactured by CCI. One round of that in the throat would have dismembered the head completely from the torso.

It is an amazing 22LR round. I have had bunches of it around the house for quite a while. It blows up muskrats into large flying pieces. With a Ruger 22/45.

 

[Caleb]

Any well placed shot can kill, but I'd rather use a 45 acp to stop a threat

 

[Caleb]

Citation?

I think he meant 7 yards, or about 21 feet