Hey, guys, welcome back to Beyond Seclusion! Recently I’ve been doing a lot of videos with 22s. Actually I did a couple of Ruger’s, the LCP2 here – Ruger LCP2 .22 – 2000 Rd. Torture Test, and then I also did the Mark IV. Following up on a video I did quite a while back the best, the deadliest, the most lethal 22 Long Rifle round you can get. And really, the big question is could this be viable as a concealed carry, a self-defense weapon? The 22 Long Rifle, could it be a self-defense weapon? Let’s find out!
I’ve got this CCI, it is the mini-mag 22 Long Rifle SHP, that’s segmented hollow-point. I did a pretty extensive video, research, whatever on this, I did some melons, and then I did some chickens that we had killed, and I think I proved the case. However, here recently I just did a review on The Best 9mm Self-Defense Round – Federal Syntech Defense, and it’s amazing. Anyway, I’ve got a dead cow that died of natural causes, was in the field, and we’re gonna put some of these CCIs into it. I’ve got a nice intact lung, a rib cage, and some skin, we’re going to put some denim on it, and let’s see once and for all what the 22 can do.
CCI Mini-Mag 22 LR SHP
Guys, I’ve got great, big beef lungs, probably about four inches. We’ve got a nice hunk of ribs here with probably two inches of tissue on top. I don’t have the skin on, but I’ve got a bunch of denim here, two layers of denim and cotton. I put all the rounds in here.
Through the tissue, through the denim, no problem! There are holes through the ribs, let’s take a look at the bottom side, and I know we hit some ribs. There’s the other side of the ribs, guys, I mean that’s pretty impressive, these ribs are thick beef ribs.
And then there’s our long, that’s the top of the lung, it doesn’t look like they started fragmenting. Let’s take a look at the bottom side. we We have quite a few holes there. It surprised me it didn’t fragment yet. And through the back of the cardboard and into the ground!
What’s that showing us right now is it we have really good penetration. I might grab another round and stack some more stuff on it.
CCI 22 LR Segmented HP
We end with the 1,650 feet a second, the 32-grain. Let’s see what we got this time, of course, we went through the denim. I put some extra layers of meat on here, I put a great big ol’ hunk of muscle. It got through the ribs, that shredded the ribs. I put some new lung tissue on here, and that’s kind of what I was looking for. I was looking for this fragmented buckshot.
Let’s check out then the bottom, just look at the back side of that, and we have lots of fragments that stayed in. We didn’t get as deep of penetration, but we definitely got the fragmentation here, but that was a lot of tissue there, much more than it’s gonna be in a chest cavity, and then here that actually penetrated through, we got eight that still went through.
Back To The Mini-Mag
But that’s what happens when those go through the ribs, they start separating, fragmenting. Back over here to the top of the lungs, you can see here, that’s all kinds of stuff in there, bone.
I don’t know if you guys can appreciate the size of this heart and muscle, and then looking at the back side of that and all those holes, look at all the fragmentation that went through there, that’s the Mini-Mag, the 40 grain, that is extremely impressive.
I don’t know about you, guys, but I’m impressed, I think that it is incredible to be able to get that out of a 22 Long Rifle. Those beef ribs are thick, they’re heavy, I was shooting through anywhere from three to four inches of muscle, and tissue, and it still went through all that.
It went through the lung and out the bottom, when I shot the heart it looked like I’d been hit with buckshots. Do what you want, there you go, see for yourself! Be sure to like, comment, sub. Until next time, happy shooting and be safe.
