15 вещей, которые НИКОГДА не стоит делать с винтовкой калибра .22!

Go and look at the rifle leaning in the corner of your closet. If it's like most, it's a twenty-two. It's the first gun you were ever handed, the one everybody calls harmless, and it can send a bullet more than a mile. Over a hill. Across a pond. Through a window you never saw. The twenty-two is the gentlest rifle in the safe, and it's the one I've watched people get sloppiest with. Not the beginners. The experienced guys. So nobody writes in about it, here is where I stand. I've put more rounds through twenty-two rifles than through everything else I own combined. Squirrel woods, tin cans, paper targets, new shooters. I love this rifle. I still think every gun owner should have a good one. This isn't a list about tactical nonsense, and it isn't about scaring anybody off rimfire. And a couple of the rules you've heard at the range are going to take a beating. I used to clean my 10/22 from the muzzle every single trip, thinking a clean rifle was automatically a better rifle. I used to repeat "never dry-fire a rimfire" to anybody who'd listen. Then I went and read what the manufacturers actually say, and they don't even agree with each other. What we go through: Cleaning from the muzzle, and why the crown is the last thing your bullet touches Storing bulk ammo in the truck, the attic, or a damp basement, and what chalky bullets are telling you Dry-firing, and why Ruger, Browning, Smith and Wesson and Anschutz all say different things Shooting a steady diet of Shorts in a Long Rifle chamber and the ring it leaves behind Skipping ear protection on a rifle that sits right at the line for hearing damage Bare lead on your hands, your sandwich, and your kids Steel targets shot too close, or pitted and cratered steel Opening the action the instant you hear a click .22 Long Rifle in a .22 Magnum gun, and the coffee can of mixed ammo in the garage Shooting at or across water, and the forensic test that surprised me Taking a rimfire deer hunting The suppressor headlines this October, and what they did not change The kids' twenty-two left unlocked Firing at the skyline or with no backstop And the one mistake every other mistake grows from Said plainly on safety: wait out a misfire with the muzzle downrange before you open the action. Keep .22 LR and .22 Magnum physically separated and label your cans. Never take a shot at water, ice, a flat rock or a road. Every shot goes into a backstop you have actually looked at. And the suppressor rules are moving fast and still in the courts. State and local law still applies, so check yours and ask a reputable dealer before you buy, not after. There is no scheme in any of this. Nobody gets lazy with a .300 Magnum, because it reminds you every time you pull the trigger. The twenty-two never reminds you. It just keeps letting you get away with things, right up until the day you don't. The four rules don't come with a caliber exception. I started writing down what years of ownership actually taught me. It's all in my book at ivansjournal.com Tonight, go to the safe or the closet. Lock up the twenty-two, separate your .22 LR from any Magnum ammo, and look at where that bulk brick has been sitting. Tell me in the comments which of these you've seen at the range. And tell me this: which one have you done yourself? I've done a few. I'd rather hear honest stories than perfect ones. #22LR #22Rifle #Rimfire #Ruger1022 #GunSafety #RifleTips #Marksmanship #22Ammo #Suppressor #HuntingTips #SmallGameHunting #GunOwner #ShootingTips