"A .22 will kill you further than you can shoot it accurately"

By Bob Owens | 3:31 PM | October 25, 2013

I’ve never had any real desire to shoot a .22 LR beyond 100 yards or so. I’m stunned at the distance at which it retained lethal force energy, and it appears that they simply ran out of range.

Interestingly enough, Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) found out the same lessons, with the same rifle (Ruger 10/22s), when they attempted to use the .22LR as a “less lethal” round for a time.

They learned in fairly short order that the a .22 to the chest at several hundred meters could lead to fatalities, and discontinued the use of the rifle as a less lethal alternative.

Bob Owens is the Editor of BearingArms.com. Bob is a graduate of roughly 400 hours of professional firearms training classes, including square range and force-on force work with handguns and carbines. He is a past volunteer instructor with Project Appleseed. He most recently received his Vehicle Close Quarters Combat Instructor certification from Centrifuge Training, and is the author of the short e-book, So You Want to Own a Gun. He can be found on Twitter at bob_owens.