The pics section here shows the 15-22 in an endless array of configurations. I was wondering what you guys and gals mostly use your 15-22 for?

99% of the time I use the 15-22 with a 1x red dot for shooting outdoors at cans and stuff between 25-75 yards. How about you?

Indoor mostly or outdoor? And what do you usually shoot at? critters... paper targets or cans... or?

As of right now its a paper weight until I get a day off to hit up the range. But mine will be used mostly at indoor ranges hitting paper targets.

1. being smug
2. undeserved feelings of self accomplishment
3. telling everyone how cool i am.

okay, just kidding.

For me just range shooting and that is all. 6.5-20x scope is a little overkill but doubles as a nice spotting scope too. only upgrades are the scope and a hogue grip.

Paper targets, outdoors, at 50 yrds.

Indoor at paper targets till the summer. Then a mix of both indoor and outdoor plinking.

Mostly I use it for shooting paper targets, but I have taken it on a squirrel hunt. Mostly I bought the rifle to put lots and lots of ammo down range.

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Smith & Wesson M&P 15-22

Top ten reasons why I own and what I use a 15-22 for.

1. Hunting small game
2. Outdoor target (my wife won't let me shoot in the living room.)
3. Just for the enjoyment of shooting
4. It's cheap practice
5. It's way cool looking and very accurate
6. It' so much fun to shoot
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I dont know about you guys but I use mine for:
1 Clearing the house every morning I wake up
2 SWAT adventures in the mall
3 Mostly paper targets
4 hope to soon go squirrel hunting

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Gun control means two hands

I fire every time I go home to the hills of Ky. But mostly at a outdoor range,( Knob Creek, Ky. Where the Machinegun shoot is held twice per year) 100 yards on average, swinging steel plate targets. But for just plain ole' fun myself and a friend(also a 15 22 owner) went in half each and bought a dueling tree for our 15 22's. It is SO, SOoooOooOO much fun! We "duel" at about 25-30 yards and up to 50 at times on average. 150 rounds total, and the best man wins.

For those that dont know what this is, its a pole with steel targets on each side, mounted with a spring system that allows them to swing from left to right or right to left when hit with a round. The left side is painted neon green, the right side is painted bright orange.( both sides are painted the same green or orange colors, front and back.. all green one side all orange the other)

The object is to have as many of your targets flipped to the other side before its over. Making the color on your side of the pole have the most plates showing on the other guys side. Makes things fun, he shots one of his plates over to my side, I shoot it back over to him, repeat over and over. Its a GREAT training excercise as there are 5 plates per side, and you never know which plates are gonna be flipped to your side next.. or how many lol.

I took it as a cheap practicing for assault rifle shooting games, which we have sometimes. Prone position, knee position and standing position. This practicing is too expensive to shoot with AR-15 and quality ammo. I shoot with mp15-22 only to 100m/110yds for paper targets and same targets as with ar-15.......and it is about same size groups I can reach with both guns. It is quite easy to keep 10 shots inside 4 inch 10-ring and usualy 5 of them are in 2 inch x-ring. With iron sights and prone position. CCI standart used as ammo.
This fine little rifle really teach how to shoot. Light weight teach how to keep strictly gun in hands and my Jard trigger gives same feeling as my ar-15 have.
With suppressor this gun is soundless. I can shoot in summer cottage nearby big lake, and none knows it. And sometimes I enjoy by shooting plates to 100m /110 yds. Very fun beacuse hiting sound comes so clearly. In prone position it is easy to keep douples inside A4-size plate for distance 100m.

General plinker. Friends all love it. It gets a ton of looks, girls like to try it because it looks cool and doesnt "kick" too hard. Always shoot outdoors, indoor ranges around here are way to expensive to shoot at. Targets hardly ever include paper. mostly we shoot clay pigeons, old computer parts, shotgun shells, water jugs/bottles. We go everywhere from 20yards out to 150+. Maybe once my buddy gets moved to his new house we'll try soemthign crazy, 250 or 300. Could do mile shots, but eh, too far haha. Gonna try some new targets this coming year, saw on another forum, of using froxen water balloons. Easy to see, cheap and reactive.

OH! Also...we use softballs. Find old ones that have been hit into the creek, throw them on the ground ~10 yards out, 2 people with 22's and GO!! its fun racing against each other to skip it alone. they are great fun and hold up awesome. even the bigger bore stuff we have takes several rounds to break em

Simple,

Killin' Zombies

I've only fired mine on the 25 yard indoor range by my house since I bought it in October, but I will be taking it to the 25/50/100 meter outdoor range up the road as soon as it warms up. The main reason I bought it was that I wanted a 5.56, and I looked into what it would take for me to be able to fire a rifle at the indoor range during the winter. After comparing a .22 conversion or dedicated .22 upper for an AR-15 lower with a 15-22, it seemed more reasonable to buy the full .22 rifle that has a functioning bolt release/last round hold and then buy the 5.56 in the spring when I can actually shoot it.

What happens when you shoot a shotgun shell? Sounds dangerous. Used/empty you mean?

We shoot it all. Golf balls on tees, frozen water bottles, Dollar Store shaving cream, cheap cans of soda, Barbies, etc. Also like to play "H-O-R-S-E" where each shooter has to make the shot or get a letter.

Yeah, yeah, I clean up after myself.

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I live in a suburb in CA so I'm not shooting cans in my massive backyard (wish I had one haha) nor do I have any pests to exterminate (couldn't if I did, anyways) so I'm at both indoor and outdoor range. Preferably outdoor cause I like being outside and can shoot at the 50 yard range. They only have paper there unless I'm missing something. I hope to be shooting steel sometime soon because I want to really bad. It's fun being accurate but I just really just want to shoot something without worrying if it's in the bull's eye or whatever. Currently, my local outdoor range is under water (literally) so I haven't shot in about 2 weeks. I'll go to this indoor one that's 20 mins. away next week probably.

I bought mine for the Post Apocalyptic Zombie Slayings of course! Isn't that why anyone buys an AR rifle? At least that's what the people on the internet told me!

Sounds like one of our ranges at the Club "The Plinking Range". Anything goes... full auto if ya got it... just no glass targets. The Club is paradise...

To put a smile on my face.It's a fun plinking gun to me.

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To put little bitty holes into whatever is unfortunate enough to be choosen as a target around my house. And a big freakin' huge grin on my face while doing so.

purpose: peskycritterplinkerupper

First post here, been reading for awhile. I live just across the state line from Phil, so hey Phil from your Ringgold neighbor.

I've owned a S&W AR-15 for a couple of years and really enjoy shooting it but the cost to feed it is annoying. Put a thousand rounds through the 22 and it's paid for itself.

I've only plinked with it outdoors so far (less than 2 mos ownership) but next week a new indoor range opens up less than a quarter mile from my office and I've joined. Expect to put a lot through the 22 and all my handguns.

I'll also carry it instead of my 10/22 at times squirrel hunting but don't do that too often. Usually only during deer season prep or post season withdrawls.

Phil, you a member at Chatt Rifle Club? Got an app I'm about to submit and wondering about waiting list length/time.

I just got back from the indoor range with mine. It get's everybodys attention.Shot a full box of Fed 550 bulk, not one issue, except the time it takes to load 4 mag's. .The .357 realy got every ones att. Including the range master that was out in the lobby

MCG, hey neighbor!

Yes, I'm a member of CRC. Waiting list used to be years cuz no one gave up their membership till death.... But there was a house cleaning of non participating members this year so a lot more applicants have been accepted. If you aren't a member of the NRA then you should join before sending in your application.
Good luck. Send me a PM if I can help with anything.

I bought mine to go with my Gecko45 Halloween costume !...

... oh... and that Zombie thing.

Not a big "joiner" of national groups. Not even a member of my state or national professional organizations. Chose to opt out as I don't like the fact that no group that large can truly represent my positions and the fact that mine were more liberal leaning.

If not being a member of the NRA is going to keep me out I'll have to think about it. Couple of friends/colleagues are members or CRC and one is sponsoring my application if I'll ever get it to him to sign!

Great board you have here and I look forward to continuing to peruse it and if ever accepted maybe doing some shooting at CRC.

Shooters Depot is opening a second location on Battlefield Pkwy and my office (fam med doc) is literally maybe 300 yds away. Really looking forward to doing a lot more shooting particularly this time of year when my outdoor "range" is also where I deer hunt.

yeah, empty ones of course. they are good targets. hard to see and if they are sitting right you can make em jump. We usually warm up our shooting days with some trap shooting, so we have lots of empty shells around.

Use mine outdoor only. I am lucky in that I live where I can step out my front door and start shooting if I wanted too. Shoot just about anything I think would be a fun target.

Great for father and son time. I have a 12 year old and this is great for training and I looks cool.

TRAINING!!! talk about saving money! I can put together a 300 round course of fire and it only costs me 20 dollars or so instead of a hundred. This is a great weapon system for CMP training with minimal transition when switching to an actual AR15

-outdoor range shooter
-cheap to shoot
-AR platform
-Parts to modified the 15-22 are endless!

We only shoot outdoors (I've never actually shot indoors or even at a range). I can shoot just out my door, up in the hills, or at my woman's sister's house. It, along with our "big" AR and all our other toys get worked out fairly often, but it's great that this platform is so dang cheap to shoot....but there's nothin like hearin & feelin one of the big cannons go off every so often.

And of course, it's the

Official Zombie Squirrel Eradicator, hands down.

For me the purpose of my M&P15-22 is "M4 Carbine Trigger Time."

At 3¢/shot compared to 30¢ (now that I'm usually buying my own ammo rather than shooting my Uncle's) the lil' rifle has already paid for itself.

I've set mine up as close to my minimalist (and 20 year old) M4 Carbine. Other than the M60 CCO sight there are no gee-haws or gimmicks on either rifle.



Current configuration with handle to match the fixed handle on my first generation M4 Carbine:



-- Chuck

I really like the setup in the second picture. How clear is the red dot that far down the gun?

The dots are perfectly clear. Tests in the Army determined that the farther from your eye you can mount the dot the easier it is to obtain and to transition between targets. With both eyes open the dot is "just out there." You don't see the sight, just the dot. Dropping the covers helps too as they obscure less folded this way.

You shouldn't be trying to look thru the sight, just find the dot. You don't even need to open the front cover for the M68 CCO (AKA "Aimpoint") to work.

-- Chuck