{"id":12510,"date":"2011-12-16T10:57:26","date_gmt":"2011-12-16T16:57:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/?p=12510"},"modified":"2011-12-16T10:57:26","modified_gmt":"2011-12-16T16:57:26","slug":"the-ruger-lcr-22-a-gun-you-gotta-have","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/the-ruger-lcr-22-a-gun-you-gotta-have\/12510\/","title":{"rendered":"The Ruger LCR-22 – A Gun You Gotta Have!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"The .22 LCR<\/a> from Ruger weighs in at 14.7 ounces and has 8 holes in the stainless steel cylinder…otherwise it’s the same as it’s .38 and .357 brothers, including the patented Friction Reducing Cam trigger system that gives the small-frame revolvers one of the best trigger pulls I’ve ever felt on a revolver of that size.<\/p>\n

The HUGE utility of the .22 LCR \u2014 and something that we’ve been talking about a lot on the podcasts and on THE BEST DEFENSE \u2014 is that it’s a convenient, low-cost tool for practicing with a gun that for some people can be notoriously hard to shoot. Snubs are the embodiment of Jeff Cooper’s “carried a lot; shot a little” dictum. But the problem is that snubbie revolver’s short sight radius, light weight and resulting “brisk” recoil make follow-up shots a bit of a challenge (LOL! With an ultralight .357 and 125-grain screamers, is that ever<\/em><\/strong> an understatement!).<\/p>\n

The solution to the challenge is, as it pretty much is with all guns, to shoot them a lot. A .22 option allows you to shoot them a lot, and cheaply. I’m going to go out on \u00a0a limb here and suggest that if you’re new to CCW and think a snub revolver might be the way you want to go, I might get the .22 LCR first…no, .22 isn’t the world’s best self-defense cartridge, but it is substantially better than harsh language. Secondly, you will have a gun that you can shoot a lot and that you will keep even if you decide to go to a semiauto for CCW. If you feel comfortable with the .22, it’s an easy transition to the .38 (which I’ve been carrying for a couple of months now) or the .357 version.<\/p>\n

Secondly, a .22 revolver is a great gun in its “kit gun” role…a gun that you’ll have with you in your “kit,” fishing or otherwise. Recall that S&S has made small-frame .22s described as “Kit Guns” for decades. To update this concept, a .22 small, light .22 revolver is a great addition to a grab-and-go bugout bag, because if you have to grab and go, you now have a back-up gun to your primary piece, and you can easily add 100 rounds of .22 ammo to the bag. I currently have an S&W Kit Gun and 100 rounds of CCI Mini-Mag 36-gr hollowpoints in my grab-and-go bag. That gun will be replaced by a Ruger LCR .22, because I’ve shot the centerfire LCR a lot and love the trigger, I have extensive holster options for the platform and, hey, it’s a Ruger and will probably outlast cockroaches and<\/em><\/strong> Keith Richards!<\/p>\n

DRTV will have a full video report next week…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The .22 LCR from Ruger weighs in at 14.7 ounces and has 8 holes in the stainless steel cylinder…otherwise it’s the same as it’s .38 and .357 brothers, including the patented Friction Reducing Cam trigger system that gives the small-frame revolvers one of the best trigger pulls I’ve ever felt on a revolver of that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":12511,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[167,1,13,1960],"tags":[2256],"class_list":["post-12510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dropped-shot","category-featured","category-michael-bane","category-ocf","tag-ruger-lcr-22"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12510\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}