Can you name these .22 calibers?

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I had haver seen the one on the right until a guy at the range showed it to me...

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.22 WRF <-- Edit: I think this is actually .22 WMR
.22 LR
.22 SSS
.22 Short (haven't seen a plated bullet in quite some time...)
.22 BB Cap
 
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I'd like to know about the ballistics on #3. I've never seen that one before. I've heard of the bb-cap, but never saw one of those either. Thanks for posting.
 
Pests indoors, mostly.
The original short loads were used a lot in gallery guns, rifles shot in shooting galleries at travelling fairs. You could stop them dead with a solid wood wall.
 
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I had haver seen the one on the right until a guy at the range showed it to me...
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That is probably because this is old-school stuff that are not common for today. The BB had a bad habit of coming loose and falling out, if you didn't handle them right. .... :mad:

Might add that we once got busted for shooting rabbits one cold winter Iowa night, in town. :eek:

There is one missing from this string and that would be the CB-Cap. I still have a few of both, sitting around as I too am old-school. ..... ;)

Be Safe !!!
 
The Aguila SSS round has a published muzzle velocity of 950 fps. More info here: http://www.silencerresearch.com/aguila_sss.htm
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I've heard lots saying accuracy is bad since the bullet is so long and heavy

But what is the little CB round used for?
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The "BB" ( round ball) is pretty much the original 22 load

The "CB (conical bullet) is a more powerful version of the BB

It's very quiet and powerful enough for small pests at close range
 
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It's still a .22

Are there any firearms chambered for these two calibers today?
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Sure, any .22 will do but the break actions were easier to load. As I said before, we use to pop rabbits on cold winter nights when you didn't want to make too much noise. ...... ;)

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I don't think I've even seen a break action 22 rifle. I suppose it's like a single shotgun only smaller.
Correction.. I guess I have seen them . The air gun crowd uses them. The combo guns ( 22/410) are break action.
 
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There are a couple missing.

  • If the one on the left is a .22 WMR (magnum), then its parent cartridge -- the .22 WRF (.22 Winchester Rimfire) is missing. Or t'other way around.
  • No .22 Long. It's functionally obsolete, but still available if you look hard enough
  • No .22 WRA (Winchester Rimfore Automatic). Winchester brought this round out just after 1900, for use in the Model 1903 semi-automaic carbine. That's the only firearm that ever used the round, and it's extremely hard to find.
 
I have used a modern variant called a "CB Long".I think CCI sold them.It was a 29 gr 22short bullet in a 22 LR case with a quiet,subsonic charge.
Out of my rem 513,it was quite accurate and sounded like a pellet gun.
 
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I'd like to know about the ballistics on #3. I've never seen that one before.
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The current version of that load uses a 60 gr bullet and is advertised at 950 fps.

It is not tremendously accurate in anything that I have tested. ...And it's generally horrendously inaccurate.
Faster twist rates in the barrel, and deeper rifling grooves seem to help; but few .22 LR firearms meet the criteria.

I run them in everything - pump actions, bolt actions, semi-autos, everything. They're reliable and predictable... to about 10 feet. (Other people report that they won't cycle most semi-autos - but they do cycle mine.) But, they are quite waxy and anything they touch will require additional cleaning when I get home (even magazines, and especially the chambers).


What I always find amazing, is that this is the "improved" version of that load. An earlier version of that load, in the '90s, actually used an 80+ gr bullet on top of a minuscule, but heavily compressed powder charge in an even shorter case. They were MUCH worse, performance-wise, and lodging a bullet in the barrel of a rifle was almost guaranteed.


Kids love 'em, though. I have a couple bricks of the 60 gr version, that I picked up on clearance/sale for a good price, and the kids (nieces/nephews) love it when I tell that they can shoot some "Sniper sub-sonics!" S-S-Sssssssssssssssss. ;)
 
When I lived in the country...I used to use CCI mini-caps to whack squirrels in my backyard.They usually went down quickly with one hit. :)
 
Most of the "quiet" loads are supposed to be used in handguns only
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I'll disagree with that. A CCI CB cap short does a dandy job with close-range squirrels through a bolt-action. If shot into the body, the bullet will frequently lodge under the skin on the opposite side. Sounds like a pellet gun so you can shoot in relative obscurity if you are just trying to do critter control.
 
A CCI CB cap short does a dandy job with close-range squirrels through a bolt-action.
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I'm talking about the Aguila like the "Super Sniper", "Super Colibri" and "Colibri"
Some of them use no powder at all, and are under 600 FPS

The CCI CB Shorts are still over 700 fps
 
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