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Best .22 for plinking under $150.00

Jon G.Jon G. Member Posts: 20 ✭✭
edited February 2002 in Ask the Experts
I think the subject says it all. I'd prefer one with a large tubular magazine (I sold mine that held 18 cartridges to my buddy years ago), semi auto. Actually, even a bolt action would be fine, or a regual magazine, for a quality trade off.Jon G.
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  • Rafter-SRafter-S Member Posts: 2,173 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Go to Walmart. Get a Marlin. Personally, I prefer the bolt action with clip rather than tube magazine. But to each his own. For the money, it's hard to beat a Marlin.
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  • BoltactionManBoltactionMan Member Posts: 2,048 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Would seem hard to beat a Marlin in either type action. Model 60's are everywhere and one of the various bolt models can be had for less than your price. Inexpensive and accurate.
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  • bwabwa Member Posts: 224 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Some years age I had a Marlin semi-auto with a tubular magazine. It was accurate, and the action worked well even when it got dirty. My complaint was the trigger -awful! Not only did it have an intolerably heavy pull, it stuck at two different points as you squeezed it.But that one goes back a few years, as I said; plenty of time has passed for them to improve things. Maybe more recent owners could comment.
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  • Rafter-SRafter-S Member Posts: 2,173 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    William81-- I agree with you on the 10/22, but I don't find them within the price range posted. Where can they be bought for $150 (which would include sales tax)?I have a 10/22 and it is my first choice in semi-auto 22's.
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  • jonkjonk Member Posts: 10,121
    edited November -1
    Marlin 60 all the way man. Cheap, reliable, accurate, fun, and easy to find.
    "...hit your enemy in the belly, and kick him when he is down, and boil his prisoners in oil- if you take any- and torture his women and children. Then people will keep clear of you..." -Admiral of the Fleet Lord Fisher, speaking at the Hague Peace Conference in 1899.
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  • bhayes420bhayes420 Member Posts: 1,314 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Marlin Mdl. 60, hands down.
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  • beantolebeantole Member Posts: 1,086 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Marlin is fine but my first choice for a plinking .22 cal is a Ruger 10/22. The gunshow had them for $170. Pay the extra and get one.
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  • niklasalniklasal Member Posts: 776 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Just hunt around. You can get a used 10/22 in excellent shape if you go to pawn shops or gun stores which accept trades.I got mine - only about 50 rounds through it, perfect in every way - for $135. Icluding tax it still came out to less than $150.
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  • 218Beekeep218Beekeep Member Posts: 3,033
    edited November -1
    All of my 22s are well under $100.,even though a few of them are worth more. Don`t overlook a good single shot,for accuracy!!.218
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  • sandman2234sandman2234 Member Posts: 894 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    The key to owning a 10/22 that you didn't have to pay over 150 for is "shopping". I own 5 10/22's. All were purchased new. The price's range from 99. for one, 106.50 for two, 119. plus 10. for shipping for the last 2. The last 2 were bought in Nov. of 2001, from one of those gunstores online going out of business. I have seen used ones sell for more than I have paid for new ones. When you find a good deal, buy more than one. The 106.50 was from Wally world. The clerk screwed up, and quoted a price on one to a friend, which was what they paid for it.He promptly bought 2 on his credit card. He then called me, and I went down the next to buy the rest they had in the store (10). The manager realized what had happened, and wouldn't sell them. I ended up with 2 for my gatlin gun. The rest were available for 129.plus tax. My friend got 2 for 79. each plus tax. Mine was 106.50 with tax.(limit 2)
    Have Gun, will travel
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  • anderskandersk Member Posts: 3,627 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    I'd go with the Winchester Model 9422 - new or used, they are hard to beat! New would be above the $100 limit, but I'd suggest waiting and saving the pennies. Or go for a used one.
    Ken
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  • JustCJustC Member Posts: 16,056 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    find a nice used 10/22. The marlins are also nice shooters.
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  • MNTNMANMNTNMAN Member Posts: 46 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    MARLINS DONT EVEN COMPARE TO THE 10/22!
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  • MNTNMANMNTNMAN Member Posts: 46 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    MARLINS DONT EVEN COMPARE TO THE 10/22!
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  • sandman2234sandman2234 Member Posts: 894 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Marlin vs ruger, or Ford vs Chevy... strictly a matter of preference. I shoot both, and a marlin 39 out of the box will outshoot a 10/22.It's a lever, so not nearly as much fun to shoot, harder to load, cost more, but what are you doing with it? Shooting cans, or trying to keep a can bouncing across the ground without stopping?Accuracy vs volume per second. More add-ons available for the 10/22, but that might be because the marlin doesn't need "fixing" Stir, stir, stir
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