marlin .22 question

[Rauch]

i have been hear alot about the stingers and .22 magnum loads lately and i was wondering what you guys thought of them and how they ahve or would preform in a marlin .22 if what i hear about them is true it could get the ole .22 some action otherwise im sticking with the .410 and a mix bag of shot and slugs thanks for the help

[Colonel Plink]

I've shot stingers out of quite a few rifles. At least three of them Marlins. I've never gotten the accuracy out of them that I like. I'm talking about varminting out to maybe 125 yards, not target shooting. Anyway, The Stingers hit plenty hard, but I could never get them on target every time. I hear good things about Velocitors, but I haven't used 'em yet. I really like Winchester power points in everything from my Marlin 7000 to my Winchester Model 67. The 40-grainers drop some, but they're good on Prairie Dogs out to 100 yards. For my Marlin 25MN, I like the Remington 33-grain v-max in 22 magnum. So there's two cent's worth.

[ColoradoElk]

Spend $4 for a box and find out if your Marlin likes them. I have a model 25 I bought about 20 years ago and it shoots Stingers very well.

[Colonel Plink]

That's good to know. My old Winchester always spun them stingers a foot right at 100 yards. I wondered if that had to do with the bbl length. I'ts been cut and re-crowned to 25-5/8. My original model 67 seemed to like stingers with it's 27-inch bbl, but since it had iron sights, I rarely shot it past 50 yards, and then usually at a big ol' jackrabbit.