1600 fps .22 short!?!

[pharaoh2]

Anyone ever hear of the Remington Rocket Q-99? It was a high velocity load from the 50's. Tonight was the first I ever heard of these and while not of much use today if you had a rifle chambered for shorts only that would be quite a number!

 

[B]

That sounds pretty incredible for .22 Short. The stinger is only 3 grains heavier than any .22 Short I have ever seen and runs just over 1600fps.

 

[cyclone]

Does it run on rocket fuel?......

 

[hawkeyeMASH]

Load it with mini nuke maybe. I would bet the 1600 fps is the same as ocean front property in Alberta, nonexistent.

 

[diemaco]

Tonight was the first I ever heard of these and while not of much use today if you had a rifle chambered for shorts only that would be quite a number!

Would be interesting in a rifle with a tube mag aswell.

 

[cyclone]

Would be interesting in a rifle with a tube mag aswell.

A lot of older, tube-fed bolt-action .22's are S/L/LR.......the Remington 550, 550-1 and 552 all fed shorts - from a tube - in a semi-automatic fashion....

 

[pharaoh2]

Who would have thunk it? They really existed!

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Back in the 1950s and early 1960s, there was a frangible .22 Short cartridge featuring a 15-grain bullet at 1,710 fps. It was marketed as the Remington Rocket and the Peters Thunderbolt, and they were sold in a flat, Chicklet gum-type box holding 28 cartridges. The frangible bullet was made from powdered iron and wax and was stamped out using commercial pill making equipment. Today, we would probably use tin or copper, rather than iron, because I understand the Rocket and Thunderbolt did accelerate barrel wear.

 

[foxytrapper]

The .22 short I like is CCI's CB's, @ 720fps, they are perfect.

 

[hawkeyeMASH]

I guess there is ocean front property in Alberta. Damm those are fast.

 

[SCDL]

I wonder how much velocity such a bullet would get out of a .22 WMR (if the velocity doesn't rip the bullet to shreds).