Well, well, another 5mm shooter! Hello Hunter Customs, I've got one of those too. MOst curious as to why you prefer the vintage ammo?????
I actually owned two of them. My original one I purchased in 1970 right after they came out, it's a 592M tube feed. The second one I owned was a 591M magazine fed rifle I purchased from a friend of mine which I later traded for a nice old LC Smith shotgun.
As for why I choose the vintage ammo, from my personal experience it does a better job of one shot stops, however I will say that may not be a fair assessment for the new ammo because now I only use my 5MM to hunt coyotes during the firearms portion of Missouri Deer season, I've not shot that many coyotes with the new ammo.
The old 5mm never got a fair shake........had it been more fully supported by the industry, we might never have seem the .17 HMR. But while the industry jumped on the .17 bandwagon and everybody made firearms for the cartridge, nobody produced a 5mm rifle except Remington, ......seems like I've read T/C made some barrels for their switch barrel pistol.
I agree, I was always a strong supporter of Remintong rifles until they did the dis-service to a lot of loyal customers by discontinuing the rifles and then discontinuing the ammo, no longer a Remington fanboy.
In my Opinion the 5MM will out perform the 17HMR hands down if one needs to shoot anything bigger them small pest.
I have a friend that has a 17 HMR he uses it to shoot Starlings around his place, he calls it his high speed BB gun, I believe he's got that right.
I believe the 5mm Mag was the best high performance rimfire, faster and flatter than a .22 WSM, and more bullet weight than the diminutive .17's.
Again I agree, I even frog hunted with mine, no matter if I was shooting them across the pond or close in front of me it would put them out on dry land, never got my feet wet using it.
Best Regards
Bob Hunter