Plinking Rifles

[Doug Casner]

Not centerfire but a k22 at junkpiles on the Mo. river. There were a 100 years of bottles in those piles. They would fine ya and send ya to jail now for shooting a bottle in the river. If we didnt shoot a carton of 22 shells a piece we werent having a good shoot. Doug

 

[David101]

Plinking is universal the world over. However I do think it mainly refers to 22LR and is most fun with semi auto or above.
For me it is the rate of fire or at least the rate of being able to hit target after target successfully. I just love love the sound of that tink, tink, tink in rapid succession.

 

[GotRDid]

My favorite Plinker has a nice “Ping” to it…..

 

[dave@aDave]

Many years ago when I was farming, I used to plink at coyotes, coydogs, dogs, groundhogs, mud turtles, etc.
My favorite plinker was a FN Browning in .264 Win Mag with Sierra's 85 gr hollow point between 3,200 to 3,600 fps.
Wasn't much for saving pelts but did the job.

 

[LAH]

Many years ago when I was farming, I used to plink at coyotes, coydogs, dogs, groundhogs, mud turtles, etc.
My favorite plinker was a FN Browning in .264 Win Mag with Sierra's 85 gr hollow point between 3,200 to 3,600 fps.
Wasn't much for saving pelts but did the job.

That's a serious plinker.

 

[ebb]

I have a pretty nice stainless Remington 700 action that I put a take off 300 ultra mag barrel on, and I have 2 of the barrels. It is going to be a plinker with a whole bunch of 175 pulled match kings I got years ago. If I plink more than a few shots each trip i am going to need to figure out a muzzle brake.

 

[Kracken McGraw]

Plinking is universal the world over. However I do think it mainly refers to 22LR and is most fun with semi auto or above.
For me it is the rate of fire or at least the rate of being able to hit target after target successfully. I just love love the sound of that tink, tink, tink in rapid succession.

The Glock 44 has been very fun to shoot.
Sorry, just read title of thread said rifles.

 

[DocUSMCRetired]

The Glock 44 has been very fun to shoot.
Sorry, just read title of thread said rifles.

Nah, I like it.

I personally really like plinking around with my Scorpion.

 

[dantiff2]

I have a pretty nice stainless Remington 700 action that I put a take off 300 ultra mag barrel on, and I have 2 of the barrels. It is going to be a plinker with a whole bunch of 175 pulled match kings I got years ago. If I plik more than a few shots each trip i am going to need to figure out a muzzle brake.

If my boys want to go to the range to plink, I usually took my XC with me. To reduce the rate at which I burn that barrel out, I've gone to taking the ole' Rem 700 (tupperware stock) in 30-06 and forgot just how fun it was to plink with the long action! I run whatever factory seconds bullets Midway has on sale, (as often as possible) to keep cost low per round. I have a radial ported brake on there to tame recoil and that makes watching bullet impact easy. A suppressor is almost as good at recoil reduction but I hate that they get so hot after only 4-5 shots and take FOREVER to cool down. I restrict it for hunting and not blasting purposes. The brake is so nice that my 12 year old shoots the 06 almost as good as I do. These are not reduced loads either.

 

[Old Navy]

Clay pigeons on the berms at our gun club with a 10/22 converted to 17HM2. They don't stand a chance.

Edit: The days of hunting rats at night with .22s on Philadelphia Int'l. Airport are long gone.

Same here. They cover the trash regularly and lock up the dump every night.

 

[Old Navy]

Plinking-- hanging out the passenger window shooting signs with a wrist rocket. Hit percentage drops past 30 mph or if the driver gives a swerve or two as the sign approaches.

Hitting signs with beer bottles was more fun except for the ones that came back and hits the car.