Old Lead

[Removed Herself]

Are those .22 shorts or (more likely) .41 rimfire?


EDIT: nevermind, if you click the picture you get a larger version.

Neat picture. .41 rimfire shorts. I think the old Remington over and under derringers took those. You had to hit a rabbit in the central nervous system to stop it, but they were cute guns...
Marty

I can't remember, is .41 rim what the old Volcanic lever action pistol fired? I know it was some wierd old cartridge, and I thought it was a rimfire.

Thefabulousfink was wondering
>I can't remember, is .41 rim what the old Volcanic
> lever action pistol fired? I know it was some
> wierd old cartridge, and I thought it was a
> rimfire.

I won't pretend to know, but I looked it up in an old Flayderman's, and those seem to have been .30's and .38's. I don't know if they were rimfires. Kinda neat looking guns...
Marty

The Henry Repeating Rifles fired the 44Henry Flat. A 44 cal rimfire using a charge of 25-30gr of black powder with a 200gr lead bullet. Not persakly a barn burner of a cartridge.

Oneshooter
Livin in Texas

...if you click the picture you get a larger version.

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The enlarged version makes great wallpaper.

>The Henry Repeating Rifles fired the 44Henry Flat.
> A 44 cal rimfire using a charge of 25-30gr of
> black powder with a 200gr lead bullet. Not
> persakly a barn burner of a cartridge.
>Oneshooter
>Livin in Texas

I've got an old 45-70 rimfire cartridge kicking around. I don't know what the ballistics would've been on the thing.
Marty

I've got an old 45-70 rimfire cartridge kicking around. I don't know what the ballistics would've been on the thing.

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I do not believe that the 45/70 Govt. was ever available in a rimfire. The early cartridges had a copper cased folded head with an internal primer. Could this be what you have?

Oneshooter
Livin in Texas

>I do not believe that the 45/70 Govt. was ever
> available in a rimfire. The early cartridges had
> a copper cased folded head with an internal
> primer. Could this be what you have?
>Oneshooter
>Livin in Texas

That could very well be. I don't consider myself any kind of expert. It just "looks" like a rimfire I guess.
Marty