Revolver - 22 Long Rifle

[Tomcat47]

Does anyone here have a revolver chambered for 22 LR and occassionly shoot 22 longs or 22 shorts- Remington Golden, CCI CB Short, etc.

My Taurus 94 does fine with both and accurate.

You see Barrels on Rifles that include the word ONLY!

And then like a Marlin 39 S-L-LR

This to me would be no different than 38 through 357?

Any way just a thought.

 

[warnerwh]

A revolver can use any round because it doesn't use the energy from firing the round to cycle itself like a semi auto rifle or pistol has to have. The lighter rounds will jam. Long Rifles are the only .22 round used almost always. They are cheaper too.

 

[gofastman]

I have a taurus 94 and have shot 100's of CB Long rounds through it with no problems

 

[22-rimfire]

Does anyone here have a revolver chambered for 22 LR and occassionly shoot 22 longs or 22 shorts- Remington Golden, CCI CB Short, etc.

Of course. Shoot away. Perfectly safe.

 

[bigfatdave]

I do it frequently with a NAA mini-revolver and CCI shorts or CB shorts.

 

[CajunBass]

I'll shoot some shorts from time to time, but frankly anything but long rifle ammo costs so much more I don't see much sense in it.

As someone else said the "long rifle only" markings you see are usually on semi-auto's where they need the recoil to work the action. If you didn't mind loading and working the action one round at a time, it wouldn't hurt anything to do so.

 

[Geckgo]

I can see where the little powderless rounds could come in handy with a lil snubbie 22. Very quiet.

 

[bigfatdave]

I can see where the little powderless rounds could come in handy with a lil snubbie 22. Very quiet.

Not so much, really.
Much more quiet out of a rifle, hearing the hammer drop and the target impact on my Henry is lots of fun, but a revolver while quieter with a CB round is still pretty noisy.

 

[BCRider]

As someone else said the "long rifle only" markings you see are usually on semi-auto's where they need the recoil to work the action. If you didn't mind loading and working the action one round at a time, it wouldn't hurt anything to do so.

Hold on a minute.

Semi's of all sorts typically require the cartridges to be within a pretty fine degree of size for overall length so that they sit in the magazines and ramp up into the chamber correctly. Longs MAY work sort of OK with some guns because they are not much different. But shorts or CB Caps would more than likely jam or pinwheel out the ejection port before they go into the chamber.