Ahhhh, the .22 WRF ! We have a long history together ! When I was a kid , back in late 50s and in about 6th grade I begin "hunting" with the slightly older and perhaps poorer neighbor kid who had free use of his worn Stevens single shot in that caliber. Ammo was about twice as much as .22 Shorts were but the effect on rabbits, racoons, and feral cats was many fold greater ! That 45 grain flat point .22 WRF left huge blood trails and nothing got far , they usually dropped in their tracks. I was impressed.
Fast forward to the middle 70s when I was a ranch foreman on a remote Big Sur ranch and a local widow gave me her husbands battery when she moved into town , even his Stetson ! Included in that modest practical battery were two Colts , A 1978 "Alaskan " .45 and a Colt Police Positive Target in .22 WRF . Also in the three rifles she gave me ; a Winchester 94 in .25-35, and a Martini Cadet rechambered to .32 Win Special and a 1890 Winchester take down .22 WRF ! Well it seemed the Colt and Winchester .22 WRF were employed for all the smaller than deer hunting the old small rancher did , it doesn't tear up meat but kills very quickly ! I found it to be so in my useage, the best bunny cartridge, a great tree squirrel and racoon gun and yes I took small wild pigs with it quietly from the 1890 pump ! It is remarkably quiet , but certainly supersonic from the rifle (claimed velocity is 1400fps from a rifle) . The Pistol is relitively quiet from it's 6" barrel about same as standard velocity .22 LR and extremely accurate. An ideal subsistance farm gun !
I still have a 250 round box and a half of the Wincester ammo and yes I do use mostly the CCI made hollowpoints WRF in my .22 Mag revolvers and derringers ! Even my .22 Mag NAA mini revolver loves it !
Unfortunetly , there is no interest from my gunny sons in that Colt/Winchester pairing nor anyone in family other than it's $ value. There for I am getting ready to sell them on GB . I really want to sell them as a set and throw in 250 rounds of Ammo. That ammo is currently still being made ! I sold a few cased sets of pistols on GB but not sure how to effectively advertise these as a set. I'll start at a penny start and would like to get at least $1200 for both, which in my mind is cheap for two 100 year old very good + condition examples of gunmakers art . I'll give it a gp on the for sale forums here, but once again don't know how to advertise a pistol /rifle set effectively. I really don't want to sell separately .
The .22 WRF 1890 is on top :
The Colt .22 WRF target police positive on the bottom