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  • leVieux

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    Being quite ancient, I distinctly recall the existence of a .22 cartridge longer than a .22LR, but smaller than the later-developed .22WMR.

    As I was a child back in the early 1950's, I can't recall its name or specifics. I do remember seeing them pop-up from time to time at friends' homes and sports stores. It was the days of brass cartridge cases for everything, but some of those longer .22's had silver-ish or chromed cases.

    I can't remember if they would chamber or fire in a .22LR weapon.

    As those were the pre-herbicide, pre-pesticide days of cottonmouth moccasins EVERYWHERE, I was firing .22LR's at a prodigious rate, hundreds/week. especially during late Spring-times. Dad would buy them for me in those big wood crates.

    I'm sure some of the ammo experts here can give details. . . . . . ?

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    mountainbull

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    .22 WRF
     

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    A few years back, a friend bought a rifle at a gunshow, thinking it was what we know now as a .22 magnum, Upon getting it home, found that it would not chamber any of the 4 .common 22 rounds that we know of today.

    After a better look at things, we found that there was the brass of a round in chamber without any head or rim left. From the scratches, it looked like someone tried to pry the case out, unsuccessfully, until the rim ws gone and the chamber now "brass lined".

    I checked with him this morning and learned he no longer has the rifle, but remembered the situation. He thinks he remembers WRF being the designation.
     

    GasGuzzler

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    .22 Winchester Rim Fire was used in older rifles mainly but I think Colt chambered some single action revolvers for it.

    .22WRF works good in a three screw Single Six WMR cylinder.
     

    Texasjack

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    .22 Short - First of the American .22 rimfires, it started in 1857
    .22 Long - 1871-present, but almost completely replaced by the .22 LR
    .22 Extra Long - Introduced in 1880 but ceased to be offered in 1935
    .22 Long Rifle - 1884 to present
    .22 WMR - Winchester Magnum Rimfire, 1959-present
    .22 WRF - Winchester rimfire - Introduced for the Win. Model 1890 pump rifle. Once popular, now rare. AKA 22 Remington Special
    .22 ILARCO, also called Winchester Short Magnum Rimfire - rare as it never caught on with manufacturers
    .22 CB - also known as the 6 mm Flobert, started in 1845, "conical bullet"
    .22 BB - variation of the 22 CB, "bulleted breech"; Used for indoor shooting
    .22 Remington Automatic - produced 1914-1928; used for the Remington Model 16 autoloading rifle
    .22 Winchester Automatic - produced 1903-1932; used only in the Model 1903 Win. semiauto rifle

    Source: "Cartridges of the World", 16th ed., Barnes
     

    leVieux

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    .22 Short - First of the American .22 rimfires, it started in 1857
    .22 Long - 1871-present, but almost completely replaced by the .22 LR
    .22 Extra Long - Introduced in 1880 but ceased to be offered in 1935
    .22 Long Rifle - 1884 to present
    .22 WMR - Winchester Magnum Rimfire, 1959-present
    .22 WRF - Winchester rimfire - Introduced for the Win. Model 1890 pump rifle. Once popular, now rare. AKA 22 Remington Special
    .22 ILARCO, also called Winchester Short Magnum Rimfire - rare as it never caught on with manufacturers
    .22 CB - also known as the 6 mm Flobert, started in 1845, "conical bullet"
    .22 BB - variation of the 22 CB, "bulleted breech"; Used for indoor shooting
    .22 Remington Automatic - produced 1914-1928; used for the Remington Model 16 autoloading rifle
    .22 Winchester Automatic - produced 1903-1932; used only in the Model 1903 Win. semiauto rifle

    Source: "Cartridges of the World", 16th ed., Barnes


    Thank you, Jack !
     
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