Thread: Which model of the 10 /22 ?

Originally Posted by gadgetman

Back when we were shooting big numbers (1000+ a night) the Marlins showed their usefulness. Anything out to 100-110m was toast, averaging over 95% first shot hit rate. Before I bought I checked out the US forums. Of those that had both Ruger and Marlin the vast majority would pick up the Marlin for small game hunting because they functioned better and had the accuracy for better kills. There is a reason that worldwide the Marlin have outsold the Ruger over 2:1.

Originally Posted by johnd

1000 rabbits plus a night
If that is one gun ( shooter ) I always struggle with these claims.

Recently i had a guy that was trying to impress me, "oh yeah, best night I had was 1200 "

I did the math

10 hrs shooting lets say from 7 pm to 5 am (thats 10 hrs with NO breaks)
1200 rabbits so...... lets see 1200 divided by 10 equals 120 (
Thats 120 rabbits per hour Lets divide that hr into minutes

120 rabbits divided by 60 (mins) equals 2

Thats 2 rabbits a minute which equals 1 rabbit every 30 seconds. all night long.

Stop to reload you loose 1 minute, stop to open a gate / have a piss, get something to eat, change the battery on your light.

Yep I get it, that you can also shoot 10 rabbits in 20 seconds.

My best night back in the day was about 130. Anything over that sort of figure should have gotten poisoned.
That included smoko. driving to the block and home, 6 hrs was a 8 hr day equivalent.
Mostly all shot with a shotgun as you could line up 2.

You missed a bit. That was a team of 6 over about 5-6 hours. At the same time the top teams in the Alex Easter Bunny Shoot were bowling just under 1000. That was teams of 12 over 24 hours from what I recall. I did manage 110 rabbits in 45 minutes from one little patch. Fingers were sore enough from reloading the mags from just that. Seems to be the same loading any rimfire mags that frequently when you're a soft townie like me.