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April 25, 2008
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After my passion for Dan Wessons and XP-100's, I've always loved a .22LR. Low noise, low recoil, cheap to feed, there is nothing like an afternoon spent plinking with a rimfire. The first ever cartridge-firing gun I shot was a .22 rifle, and my first real handgun I bought was a Ruger MKII Target, back in 1985. This one had seen many changes over the years…iron sights, Aimpoint MKII, Simmons 2x, Pachmayr grips. Today it wears a Leupold 2x scope and custom left-handed Hogue grips.
Still a joy to shoot and still going strong after many thousands of rounds. Here's my other .22LR handguns, in no particular order. I won't put them in one post, cause it would be a long one. Besides, how else am I going to increase my post count. 
AMT Lightning 10"
AMT Baby Automag, 1 of 1000
Anschutz Exemplar
Another Exemplar, with slightly different sights
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Browning Buckmark Target 5.5"
Browning Buckmark Silhouette 9 7/8"
Bond Custom BF Arms 15"
Browning Buckmark Varmint 9 7/8"
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Calfee Custom Exemplar 15" barrel
CBC 722, Brazilian copy of the Anschutz Exemplar
Colt Diamondback 6"
Dan Wesson 722-VH10 Silhouette
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El Dorado 10" Silhouette
Freedom Arms 252 Silhouette, 1 of 250
Freedom Arms 97 Silhouette
Smith & Wesson 617 8 3/8"
Smith & Wesson 617 6"
TC 10" Match
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Calfee Custom XP-100 .22LR
Calfee Custom XP-100 .22LR
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February 28, 2009
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Holy Cow!!!
Twenty .22's? That's more .22's than I gave guns!
Incredible.
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November 17, 2008
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IHMSA does it again. Another trip to the hospital for dehydration from excessive drool.
How ever do you decide which ones to take to the range?
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December 17, 2008
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...it's good to be King...
Man, what a beautiful line up of fabulous pistols - and to think they are all .22's!!
April 25, 2008
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It's actually 21, but I didn't include the rimfire rifles, since this is a handgun forum. 
How to decide what to take to the range? Depends on what I am planning on doing. Usually the shorter barreled ones are for standing shooting or plinking, the longer ones are the dedicated silhouette shooters. I try to rotate them based on when was the last time I shot one, or whichever strikes my fancy for the day. Sometimes I have ammo I want to test in certain guns, others always go for silhouette days. I do keep track of every round fired in each gun (been doing that since day one) so it's easy to see when the last time I shot an individual gun was.
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February 28, 2009
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IHMSA80x80 said:
It's actually 21, but I didn't include the rimfire rifles, since this is a handgun forum.
OK! It's 21. 
My bad -- I counted the two Exemplars as one. 
And that's just the .22's. You have a very serious hobby.
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IHMSA80x80 said:
...I do keep track of every round fired in each gun...
I'd like to start doing that, too. I guess I need to go hit some office store & pick out a good notebook....or I suppose one notebook per gun would make sense.
Great lookin' bunch of beauties there, IHMSA.
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May 17, 2009
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The DW 722 VH10 is KING of the Court! IMHO
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Charger Fan said:
IHMSA80×80 said:
…I do keep track of every round fired in each gun…
I'd like to start doing that, too. I guess I need to go hit some office store & pick out a good notebook….or I suppose one notebook per gun would make sense.
Great lookin' bunch of beauties there, IHMSA.
Either a notebook, or a Cray Supercomputer 
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BTW- No such thing as "just a .22". Lately, if I'm not shooting.22, I'm pretty much not shooting
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Another awesome post by the apparent .22 king! Wow, to keep track of every round fired. I am luckt to keep track of the last thing I loaded. What a job! Very nice report and set of pictures to go with it!
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Steve CT said:
Charger Fan said:
IHMSA80×80 said:
…I do keep track of every round fired in each gun…
I'd like to start doing that, too. I guess I need to go hit some office store & pick out a good notebook….or I suppose one notebook per gun would make sense.
Great lookin' bunch of beauties there, IHMSA.
Either a notebook, or a Cray Supercomputer
I could see my place turning into this...
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With this being my end result...
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December 17, 2008
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Nice pics CF...yeah, maybe it's time for that Cray...
April 25, 2008
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It's really not that hard to keep track of, and I don't have a Cray (they are too slow for me). 
I have a small, spiral bound notebook, Steno size, that stays in my shooting box. When I finish shooting a gun, I count the empties and write it down in the book. At home, I record the numbers in a separate file I started for each gun, created with a basic Microsoft Works spreadsheet, like this one for my XP-100 in .22LR
CALFEE XP-22 CALIBER .22LR
Date Rounds Fired Range
5-10-08 35 NKSSA
6-13-08 23 NKSSA
6-14-08 40 NKSSA
7-1-08 34 NKSSA
7-11-08 51 NKSSA
7-21-08 85 Tusco
7-27-08 50 NKSSA
8-08-08 25 NKSSA
8-09-08 55 NKSSA
9-13-08 50 NKSSA
10-11-08 50 NKSSA
10-25-08 60 NKSSA
10-31-08 20 NKSSA
3-21-09 21 NKSSA
4-17-09 55 NKSSA
4-24-09 38 NKSSA
4-26-09 50 NKSSA
5-9-09 39 NKSSA
5-24-09 46 NKSSA
5-30-09 45 NKSSA
6-5-09 35 NKSSA
6-13-09 50 NKSSA
Total Rounds 957
5281 6238
Of course, the columns are all aligned in the spreadsheet, I added a calculator function to automatically total up the entries for the page (Total Rounds 957). There is enough for 30 entries before filling a page, then that total is added to the previous pages (5281 rounds) for the total fired through the gun (6238) since I bought it. Once the page is full, I just clear the data and start at the top again...the total rounds at the bottom stays with each page. Pretty simple. NKSSA is my home range, the Northern Kentucky Straight Shooters Association.
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