Right... and I'm not disputing that. I'm just confused on the focus of the thread so I gave you my thoughts from both corners. The first corner was from the purpose of shooting varmit(s). The second was for practical self defense.

I believe if you're going to carry you should carry something applicable to the situation as well. I believe that's a nice 22 with good portability and probably reasonable enough power to both defend and kill small game. My only concern really is really with the accuracy of the gun in terms of shooting small game and with the deployment aspect in a self defense scenario. Other than that it's a fine firearm.