Newer rimfire cartridges - why not the other way?

[double gun]

So in recent years we got the 17 hmr, the 17 hm2, the 17wsm.

Why not go the other direction? A 25, or 30 caliber rimfire? Am I alone on this? I would love to see some bigger bore rimfires hit the market. I wish the 32rimfire was still around and mainstream.

No market? What am I missing?

 

[freezer filler]

Im guessing cost and the perceived need for faster/ higher MPBR

 

[steven123654]

I been having the same thoughts since I have tried a .22. Spent money on a not so useful 9mm flobert just to fill my need for a different caliber rimfire in "the other way".
32 rim would be great, even 45 rim?!?!?

 

[RabidM4U5]

Hmm, you know what I'd like to see? .22 centerfire! Yeah, I'd like to hand load my ammunition instead of being a slave to crappy, inconsistent lots of factory "match" ammo at an exorbitant price.

When you really boil it down, why would you desire rimfire anything? What does rimfire do for you?

 

[grauhanen]

Hmm, you know what I'd like to see? .22 centerfire! Yeah, I'd like to hand load my ammunition instead of being a slave to crappy, inconsistent lots of factory "match" ammo at an exorbitant price.

Never seen .22 centerfire? There are all kinds e.g. .22 Hornet, .222, 22-250, .223 to name only a few. See this for more h t t p://www.chuckhawks.com/22caliber_cartridges.htm You must mean something else.

 

[double gun]

Hmm, you know what I'd like to see? .22 centerfire! Yeah, I'd like to hand load my ammunition instead of being a slave to crappy, inconsistent lots of factory "match" ammo at an exorbitant price.

When you really boil it down, why would you desire rimfire anything? What does rimfire do for you?

Umm. You know this is the rimfire section of the forum right?

 

[RabidM4U5]

You must mean something else.

DERP! I'm a few beers deep tonight.... Basically what I'm gettin' at is I'd like to see a re-loadable version of the .22 LR we cherish so dearly in this forum Same cartridge spec but with a weee centerfire primer.

 

[RabidM4U5]

Umm. You know this is the rimfire section of the forum right?

5/8 firearms I own are .22 LR rimfire.... lol.... I think I'm in the right place

 

[double gun]

I been having the same thoughts since I have tried a .22. Spent money on a not so useful 9mm flobert just to fill my need for a different caliber rimfire in "the other way".
32 rim would be great, even 45 rim?!?!?

I never considered something as big as 45 - but that would be pretty neat. I wish we knew the real reason the 32 rf disappeared, it seems like a great round.

 

[tiriaq]

I think reintroduction of the .25 Stevens Long would be successful.

 

[HammerHeade]

Hmm, you know what I'd like to see? .22 centerfire! Yeah, I'd like to hand load my ammunition instead of being a slave to crappy, inconsistent lots of factory "match" ammo at an exorbitant price.

When you really boil it down, why would you desire rimfire anything? What does rimfire do for you?

Uncapped magazine limits for semi auto

 

[sgt.rock]

I'd love to see some rimfire rounds that looked like .38special and housed rounds as big as .45cal bullets.

 

[Kevin M.]

Niche market items in my opinion.

The idea of relatively expensive and very difficult to reload brass that generally would get thrown out by the bulk of consumers = the death of any manufacturer and consumer interest in bigger bore rimfire designs, outside of an extremely small group of interested people.


Neat idea, but the logistics do not work.


Most current popular rimfire cartridges are popular because the brass is cheap enough to throw out without flinching.

 

[RabidM4U5]

Uncapped magazine limits for semi auto

For rifles other than the 10/22... yeah okay that has it's place, I don't have the venues for that style of shooting I'm the kind of shooter concerned with getting the velocity extreme spread of their ammo below 10 fps... reliance on factory production for this is frustrating to say the least.

 

[ShawnC6]

Reason I've heard bigger more powerful rimfires were an issue is due to pressures required, along with thin bases for the rim to still crush under a firing pin.

 

[577/450]

DERP! I'm a few beers deep tonight.... Basically what I'm gettin' at is I'd like to see a re-loadable version of the .22 LR we cherish so dearly in this forum Same cartridge spec but with a weee centerfire primer.

If u look in the newer outdoors magazines you can get a kit for reloading .22lr, complete with dies primer compound and bullet molds. I saw this in the Backwoodsman magazine.. U can google it too, to see the entire procedure

 

[chanman]

DERP! I'm a few beers deep tonight.... Basically what I'm gettin' at is I'd like to see a re-loadable version of the .22 LR we cherish so dearly in this forum Same cartridge spec but with a weee centerfire primer.

Wouldn't the closest you can get be something like .25 ACP?

 

[Raton57]

25 ACP has to be the weakest thing out there. I would love to see the 32 come back again so I could shoot it again. The 25 really makes no sense why they stopped making it either. The cost of bigger rimfires would be pretty high to cover the brass costs.

 

[chanman]

25 ACP has to be the weakest thing out there. I would love to see the 32 come back again so I could shoot it again. The 25 really makes no sense why they stopped making it either. The cost of bigger rimfires would be pretty high to cover the brass costs.

Well, he did say a reloadable version of .22 LR. That tends to fall somewhere between .25 ACP and .32 ACP in terms of power

 

[vagrantviking]

I think it would be fun to see the 32rf make a comeback but we'll be lucky to ever see an occasional run of new ammo.

Between the ban on .32 pistols (7.62 rimfire maybe?) and the limits on power it's not a very viable idea.