Caseless 22 cal ammo.

Daisy sold the guns years ago. Look up Daisy-Heddon VL .22 rifle.
I have one of the guns in my collection and a few hundred rounds of ammo. Tried it out at the range last fall and it produces quite a crack when fired. I could use more ammo though.

This was produced by a joint venture of Daisy and Heddon companies between 1967-69. It uses a caseless 22 bullet and is fired by the heat of air compression (adiabatic compression), no firing pin. They made 19,000 of this model and was closed down by the USA because they didn't have a license to produce a fire arm.





 
Ah.......if only I could get you guys to buy the 3 boxes of those I've been carting from cartridge show to cartridge show these many years............
 
I looked at V-L rifles when they came out, and I wasn't impressed. They had plastic stocks and a BB gun type painted finish and were priced at around $40 at a time one could buy a single shot .22RF for about $25. Not too many places sold the ammunition for it when, again, you could pick up 22 RF almost anywhere in S, L, and LR. The V-L was somewhere between a short and a long in velocity, IIRC.

Little known fact is that C-I-L developed the ammunition.
 
Another .22 caseless cartridge I remember was produced by Voere, I seem to recall it was around 1990. The reports I saw said those were very nicely made, but they didn't last long on the market. I've never laid eyes on one.
 
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