Are there any rimfire "rail guns" out there?

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To see what I mean by "rail guns" check this out first. Likely many of you have seen this or other photos and videos of similar setups.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6qatf5g7lzk#t=207

I went looking to see if there's anything comparable in rimfire guns. But nothing at all comparable came back. Or are they called something different for rimfire?

Or are the rules for rimfire bench rest competitions written up in such a way that such "artillery pieces" are not allowed?
 
A rail gun is an electro magnetic pulse gun that fires a mostly aluminium projectile the smallest one that can achieve bulistec speeds mounts on a war ship...
 
Well, apparently the name is used for a few other things as well. In addition to the 6.65 PPC caliber "rail guns" in that video Colt also makes a model of the 1911 that they call a "rail gun" since it has a picatinny rail on the lower front end of the dust cover.
 
All those rail guns are custom made from scratch... Really expensive gear.

For .22 Rimfire, Anschutz makes some crazy benchrest rifles, which is essentially the same thing. Benchrest high accuracy shooting exist for a number of different platforms and calibres... There are even guys with $10-15K benchrest air rifles, which is somewhat of a mind numbing concept.

"Rail Guns" are essentially bench rest rifles taken to the umpteenth degree. So yes, they exist for .22
 
Yah there is a guy I worked with that has some stupidly expensive air rifle in .22 caliber he said shot pellets faster then a live fire rifle...
 
Secondgunman said:
How legal are these in Canada...
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18" bbl and 26" OAL, good to go.

Considering the format, you're going to be well above both those #s anyway.

If the velocity of the projectile of an air rifle is beyond 500 FPS (I think that's the cutoff) it gets classed as a rifle, so you need a permit accordingly.
 
As fancy and extreme as the high grade Anschutz rifles are and as snazzy as some of those "tube guns" are they could still be used in in an standing offhand shooting style.

Instead I'm wondering about dedicated bench top "sleds" that are truly small bore artillery pieces with no stocks or other hand holds or shoulder stocks of any sort at all.
 
The reason you won't find many of those is because right now
there is no official competition of such rifles
that is amended or supported by a shooting body.
 
Ah, now that makes more sense. But it got me spurred up enough to do a search for benchrest rules and I found this.....

D. Sand Bags

Front rest must be topped with some form of sandbag. Rear rest must be a sandbag. Sandbags must be made of leather or cloth. The front and rear rests will not be connected to each other, the bench or the gun. Only sandbags can touch sides and bottom of stock except that a thin plastic film or cloth may be attached to the stock where it touches the bag only for the purpose of reducing friction between the stock and sand bag. When rifle is raised straight up, the front and/or rear rest must not raise up with rifle. If the front and/or rear rest raise up with rifle, the front and/or rear rest must be weighed with rifle to determine eligibility. Front and rear rifle rest must be on top of the bench but not attached to the bench. Sand bag and rest rules do not apply to the Unlimited Class.
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And the unlimited class rule states.....

C. Unlimited

Unlimited scope power and weight. Firearm must sit entirely on bench and cannot be attached to the bench.
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So it would appear that the rules for at least ONE sanctioning body, the Rimfire Benchrest Association in this case, do allow for such a design in their unlimited class.
 
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