This may have already been covered, but I'm looking advise as to were to spend my cash. What would you recommend as .22lr training and small game tool, wheel-gun or semi-auto?
My instinct tells me to go for the semi auto as I can get it screw-cut and moderated, but there seems to be a massive push towards a revolver on this forum for training purposes.
I am based in the UK and dispite our restrictive laws, some companies are now providing UK-spec handguns, I already have .44 rem mag and need a bit of guidance. (I know we can't use handguns over here for hunting but we can practice with them before taking them over seas)

Personally I love the Ruger Mark II pistols. Get one of the target models. They are as accurate as any other on the market and will never fail unless you let them get REAL dirty. I hunt squirrels with them and have taken squirrels to almost 60 yd's offhand. You will spend BIG bucks to get a revolver as accurate.

Browning Buckmark is a great gun. Probably comparable to the Ruger Mark series.

for a revolver, if you can find a used Smith and Wesson model 17 in 6", its the perfect plinking and hunting wheel gun. If not try Taurus model 94. dont know if they sell Taurus in UK or not though.

For target use and plinking, I really like an auto. But for hunting, I simply feel more comfortable with a revolver. If you're planning on using your 44 mag for hunting, I'm assuming a revolver, having the same action type in a 22rf is a great training aid.

The .44 mag is a single shot Competitor and is far more accurate than me, it will print nice 5 shot groups as one hole from a rest and is great fun with a really nice trigger, it's just a bit heavy for shooting off hand. Buck marks and Taurus Revolvers are available over here, I can get Freedom arms as well but they're a bit pricey, in fact they all are, Buck marks are £500($890), Taurus are between £600-£630 ($1100)there are a few second hand Ruger BH & RH but they are not imported now and hence, rare.
I think it might need to be the Buckmark as the whole idea of getting a .22 is to keep the cost down?

In 22's autos are the way to go. I have both but My revolvers hardly ever get shot I shoot thousands of rounds out of the autos each year.

I like the buck mark better then the ruger I find I have to clean the ruger after 500 or so rounds the buck mark goes a 1000 or better.

It is easy with a auto and a bunch of mags to go out and shoot 500 to 1000 in a few hrs.

And it is great fun.

For sub-caliber training I use a 22 rimfire barrel for my Contender and a Bisley Single Six, but for fun I use selfloaders.

Thanks for all your help, looks like it's going to be the Buckmark this time round and hope the wife can't tell the diffence between one pistol and another

For training i use a browning buck mark , i killed a lot of hares with it too .Sometimes hunting boars with the dogs i use a glock 22 40sw so the auto training is good .Juan

I've got several revolvers in both 22 cal and in 38-357mag and have had, in the past several larger cal. revolvers, however when it comes to plinking and serious paper work I use one of several small autos. The Browning Buck Mark is great for both uses, but I use a Ciener 22 cal converion on my Beretta 96 for training duties, lots of cheap ammo. The Ciener is high quality and slips on in just a sec. I also have a S&W 2006 that is a very heavy .22 cal little work horse. I also carry a sub-compact XD in 40S&W, haven't found any way to simulate it in training though. I did manage to take a coyote with a Smith & Wesson 9mm. A number of years ago, on a dirt road in Wy, I had a coyote running along a fence line, I followed him and shot him 9 times with 115 gr HP's. It killed the coyote but it never knocked him down, I had the 9mm for home security, after that (what I considered poor performance) I sold the weapon and work with a little larger round....

AI22-250 but where did you hit the yote. I have shot some a 9mm it killed them just fine.

Piss poor shooting doesn't make a bad caliber.

p dog shooter -- All but one of the rounds hit in a circle just behind the left shoulder. one shot in the hind quarter, tough to hit a moving coyote at 20 yrds, at least for me. Any one of the rounds would have killed the coyote, my point was that if someone is in my home, I want him "down" with the first round or two. I was also lucky that most any clip in the S&W 39 made it thru without a jam. 30yrs ago this model was notorious for "jams". Any thing but ball ammo was taking your life in your hands. These were 115gr hollowpoints had a very straight profile which made matters worse. I also hated reloading for it. If I remember there was only .2 or .3 tens of a grain of bullseye from min to max. This wasn't my weapon of choice, just the only thing I had handy. Frankly I think you comment was, well I'll leave it unsaid...

OOOKaaayyyy, I don't know much about shootin yotes with hollow points, but if anyone can tell me who might ship spare mags for a buckmark to the UK that would be great and any other pointers or recommendations would be good to, red-dot sights, pistol scopes etc....