Taking 22 ft Center Console Offshore?

Right off the bat, can you? Yes. Should you? No

But I’ve seen people in similar or smaller boats. How far you talking? Can you see land from those rigs?

I do it pretty regularly in a 24' bay boat. Mine is about as good a single screw bay boat as you can get for doing it and we've gone pretty damn far in it a few times and had some really fun trips. There's days when the only factor is how much gas you have and you can go really far in a bass boat, but those are few and far between. The most important thing is getting experience out there before you bail 25 miles out on your own. It's not super dangerous if you have your head screwed on straight, you aren't 1000 miles out in the pacific or anything.

- the boat has to be as seaworthy as possible. Working bilge pumps, all safety equipment functional, good VHF radio, etc. The most important thing is that the engine is trustworthy and proven reliable. The farther away you get the more important this becomes.

- the captain has to be as seaworthy as possible. If you have no open water experience, bring someone who does and learn from them. Don't just go out there tying off to rigs with no previous experience doing it and don't run 40 miles out your first time.

- the weather has to be good. A 2' gulf storm chop in a bay boat is brutal. 4's is very dangerous. Dont let the purple stuff get between you and the trailer. There will be days when you fish very little or none and have to turn it around and make a speck fishing day out of it. It's damn hard to do when it isn't bad yet, you're where you want to be, put the money and effort into getting there. Gotta be willing to tell everyone to reel em up and try again another day.

You absolutely can. But like everyone here said use extreme caution, make sure everything that can break won't break, be experienced in open water, be 100% aware of the weather conditions, if possible monitor the weather real time and quit at the first sign of a problem.

I have a 24ft skeeter bay boat and my first tripe to Chandeleur island (25 miles off shore from long Beach MS) was glass calm on the way out. But 2-4' coming in. I monitored the weather all week up until the moment we launched. There was supposed to be zero chance of rain, a 2-5mph north wind that was supposed to calm to zero mph at 6-7pm before ramping up to a 10-15mph south wind at 9-10pm. That didn't happen. At 2:45 pm the water was glass and had 10-20ft visibility straight down and no wind. At 3:00 pm there was a 5mph wind from the south with about a 6-8" chop. At 3:15 pm the wind was 10-15mph still coming from the south, with a 1ft chop. 3:30pm the I pilot was no longer staying in the water with waves splashing over the bow, the wind had jumped up to the 20-30mph range with 2-4' seas. At that point we were already packing everything in for the dookie arse ride back. We were only able to travel about 25 mph back bashing through the waves for an hour straight. The ride in was so rough, and getting worse, in fact that I bruised the bottoms of both feet and permanently hurt my back. We should've came it alot slower but it was getting bad out there. Heard the coastguard calling out to a capsized vessel on chnl 16, it got so bad.

The moral of the story is this, shite can get bad really fricking quick offshore. And if you don't have a boat that can handle at least 3-5' seas without water hitting the deck you should be so over prepared you feel insane anytime you venture offshore.

Here's the boat.

We take a single engine 21’ Triton 80 miles off of the MS coast…on good days. I know tons of folks take 24’ bay boats snapper fishing, but they absolutely know what they’re doing.

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I have a 22ft Center Console bay boat

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Not all 22ft "bay boats" are in the same category when talking about ability to operate in less than desirable sea state.

What do you have? How old is the motor?

Its a Triton 2008 Hull, with a 2019 150 Mercury. It takes waves pretty good but I'm not sure if I've been in 4-5' seas before.

I've ran a 15 ft. Whaler to the Bahamas from Miami.
Pick your days and an EPIRB is a really nice thing to have.
It's not the size of the boat , it's the Sea conditions

Sure you can.
I've been out there in an aluminum flat.
That said, it's all fun and games until you find yourself out there in 4-5 footers...