that yote was the size of a german shepard, I have my doubts even the stingers would have worked. hindsight is 20/20. 250 grain .450 bushmaster from the muzzle loader with 110 grains of BH209 does the trick on yotes. not sure if it was a rabbit or a deer, or even a yote, but somebody ate 3 of my pencil thick white birch, just bit the whole damn trunk off at the roots. they were all growing strong all year, once the leaves dropped I went to go look at them one day.. it was a massacre.. got a bald cypress too...
whoa grimmy, never seen those silencers. you just blew my friggin mind. nice rig!
wow, impressive, not sure if this is off topic or not, but why the smoothe bore? now you got me feelin cheap for not putting a volquartsen trigger on my 10/22 lol. but with the price of pumice these days, my gun budget is dwindling, that or it could be the geissele trigger I just bought for the 450BM AR im building. lol "gun budget, "bonsai soil budget". I always tell my wife, you know people sell these things for thousands of dollars right? I tell her these are investments.Thank you, it was a long project. The firing pin and some of the other bolt components are custom titanium. The stock Ruger supplied is made from the Military grade M16 stock material. Being a bolt it is extremely accurate. I have some other accessories for it but those Gerber's are an old school trick and honest they work great and are legal to purchase.
Grimmy
One of the least expensive mods on it is the lever to eject the clip - far better then that damn depression button that comes factory especially if you use larger clips. Oh, and although it is Stainless it weighs in at 4 lbs 9 ozs with an empty clip 
ok so the bore does have a rifling twist inside the barrel then? you meant smoothe on the outside.. bout to say.. I've never heard of a smooth bore 22 LR. my buddy has one of them .17 HMR savage bolt action, seems to be the best choice for the varmint kong. hell you cant even hardly find .22 ammo for sale .22 mag ammo is non-existent right now it seems. There is about a 2 month wait list on those stingers..The 10/22 is a great gun and being a semi can be very accurate. However, it can never match a well made bolt. I had 10/22's that were decked out crazy my son now owns. I Built this 22LR as my final 22 purchase and went for the most accurate I could dream up on a factory frame. It was very expensive but it is a dream to shoot. Not having the notched barrel to hold a front sight - that was just plain austintatious but I will never need it so I went for it
Grimmy
I don't shoot unless I can line something up behind my target,like landscape trees or a mound of dirt or something like that. These things ricochet like crazy.
Kills deer in the dark just fine. Or so I've heard.
I've seen chickadees shrug those off.
Looked like it was cut with a concave cutter didn't it? That was a rabbit. Their teeth are sharp.
That's why they work in the dark under a spotlight. These guys only aim for the eye that lights up. It's all you see.
I'll have to go do some forensic evaluation and report back. I was thinking the deer did the dirty deed on the birch. I got gnaw marks on the bases of all my non bonsai apple trees too, so I figured rabbits were doing that. pruned all the suckers I was going to layer in the spring, plenty of branches that need to be cut I can use, but still. pretty sure its the deer that ate the buds off my oak's and one of my elm bonsai too, they do a number on my apple buds in the spring, don't know who to blame, so im going indiscriminate jihad. Maybe there is a peaceful answer, , then again, maybe not.
LOL hunting deer with a .22 in the dark, yall ARE nuts hahaha, hate to be that guy but id wager a whole case of hopslam against anyone in a bench competition against my 10/22 with the stingers. Want to talk varmint guns, I got a .223 wylde, 1 in 9 twist, with my hand loads, id hit the deer in the pupil @ 200 yards.
