There is a much wider selection of rifles in. 22LR is usually found anywhere that ammo is sold, but the. 22 LR advantages are that it is less expensive to shoot - about half the cost of the. They are both rimfire cartridges, but each has advantages and disadvantages the small game/varmint hunter needs to consider. 22LR and the report is louder.Ĭhoosing a small game/varmint hunting caliber often becomes confusing when it comes to. 22WMR cartridges, the cost of shooting is about twice of the. 22WMR caught on with small varmint hunters, and now there is a good choice of handguns and rifles offered in the powerful little cartridge. Due to this, its quiet report and minimum recoil, the.
22WMR, when shot from a rifle, carries more downrange energy at 100 yards than the. Several of these bullets have been loaded in the. 224-inch bullets designed for centerfire calibers. The timing was just right as it was just the beginning in the development of the new wave of. The case was designed to be larger in diameter, and in length, than the. 22 case, which allows it to have higher pressures than the.22LR. They accomplished this by developing a thicker. 22 rimfire round that would accurately reach out to 100-plus yards and carry more downrange energy to the target. 22WMR to respond to small game and varmint hunters who requested a. 22 Winchester Magnum Rimfire (WMR), or more commonly known as the. Then, in 1959, Winchester introduced a new, more powerful. 22LR pretty much had the small game/varmint market to itself. In today’s world, the cartridge is popular for plinkers, target shooters, small game and small varmint hunters and for use in farm pest control.įor 72 years the. Most of us who are shooters started with a. 22LR is as much in demand, if not more so, than ever. 22Long, figured out that by lengthening the cartridge case and using a 40-grain bullet, pushed by an improved powder, they could develop an excellent small game round that was more powerful than any. 22LR has been with us since about 1887 when the Savage Arms Company, working from the. 22 rimfire available on the dealer’s shelves and when you can find it, the price has almost doubled. Even with that amount of production, at this writing, there is little. ammo industry, there were over five billion rounds of. The rear faces/edges of the different model's cylinders are machined differently, also.According to the U.S. The newer/stainless cylinders are much longer than the earlier gun's, and ergo, it's barrel barely pokesw through the front of the cylinder frame while the older gun's barrel extends over 1/4" into the cylinder window, with that cylinder accordingly shorter. 22 mag cylinders are NOT interchangeable between the revolvers. The two different generation revolver's cylinders, AND the amount that the barrel throat protrudes through the frame into the cylinder opening, is vastly different - and the. 22 Mag is slightly more accurate than the newer stainless gun, in either caliber - but that may be a result of the newer gun's sights color being the same color as the rest of the gun, and being lost during firing/aiming. The LR cylinder ( which is the primary cylinder that the barrel is marked for) is slightly more accurate in my dual-cylinder gun - see the left target, above. The other is a new stainless 4" Target Pathfinder Dual Cylinder.
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