Why's that?LR only seems more logical.
Thanks, good to know. I've heard they may fowl the chambers more but probably not a biggie.I have shot a bunch of them in my 3 screw single six. Never a problem.
Thanks, good to know. I've heard they may fowl the chambers more but probably not a biggie.
Feel free to shoot all the shorts, longs, and long rifles that you want in that Single-Six. I have a couple of bricks of the original Aguila Colibris (primer only), and they are a hoot shoot out of mine.
Couldn't have said it better myself. I don't understand WHY anybody would want to do this. The shorts are still too loud to shoot without hearing protection so that reason doesn't fly. They won't be as accurate as the LRs and the residue they leave in the chamber makes for extra cleaning.Shorts are typically harder to find, more expensive and less powerful, but they will shoot out of the gun.
It used to be written right on the gun, or at least in the catalog:
".22 Short, Long, or Long Rifle".
I shot a lot of shorts in my Marlin 39A, they were then cheaper and the tube magazine held a lot of them.
It used to be written right on the gun, or at least in the catalog:
".22 Short, Long, or Long Rifle".
I shot a lot of shorts in my Marlin 39A, they were then cheaper and the tube magazine held a lot of them.
It used to be written right on the gun, or at least in the catalog:
".22 Short, Long, or Long Rifle".
I shot a lot of shorts in my Marlin 39A, they were then cheaper and the tube magazine held a lot of them.
.I have heard of some old guns that were originally chambered for Long Rifles that experienced erosion in the chamber after shooting years and years of Shorts, so that attempting to revert to Long Rifle ammo caused difficult, if not impossible, extraction. Not a fouling problem…the LR case expands into the eroded “ring” and doesn’t want to come out.
I never experienced it my own self, perhaps one of those “old wive’s tales”. I suspect it would take many thousands of rounds to cause such a problem.
I don’t hesitate to shoot a few Shorts in any of my .22s now and then. If I owned a Winchester 52 or Anschutz I wouldn’t. Single- six? Go for it. The pop is kinda cute.