Remind Me Why I Bought CCI CB Long and CB Short 15 Years Ago??

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I just dug these out of my ammo stash, as I recently converted my old gun cabinet to an ammo storage organizer with shelves and all (not bad for a non-handy guy). So I got bricks of these and I just did some quick research on these (since my long term memory is as good as my short term memory - very poor - and it must have been me wanting to use subsonic rounds. I also have some Remington EZ-Bee or something like that - same idea. I suspect because the FPS is around 700 or so due to primer only, that these probably would not cycle in a semi auto magazine (I believe I bought these for my bolt action savage). For the life of me I don't remember why I bought the CB Short AND CB Long. Perhaps if anyone is in the know, perhaps you can share whether you have used these and what the results were? I think aside from the fact it was on sale, I just wanted to get an assortment of 22LR ammo at the time.

Any comments would be welcome...
 
I guess it depends on what firearm you intended to use these for. I use them for quiet plinking on my property through my Marlin 39A. The short or long are no issue feeding through a lever action and the 24" barrel makes for a quiet report considering the neighbours aren't that far away. The empty cans don't stand a chance.
 
Not long ago I stumbled on a stash of every variety of .22 I could purchase. It seems a coworker had an Erma M1-carbine like .22 semi auto which arrived from Europe with his new wife. The customs agent sorted through her belongings in the customs shed, and allowed her to keep a screw on suppressor. Knowing his good fortune, my friend asked me to test the rifle and give him a ballistics report. The smallest sized rounds were hard to load and barely left the barrel. But .22 Short was the best compromise of not opening the bolt and having adequate accuracy. So, if I had CB Long and CB Shorts, that would be my excuse.
 
Yeah, I think I may have bought originally for my Savage bolt action. I am not sure what I was thinking buying so much of it - I hope I wasn't thinking I could use it in my backyard or something. Think it it was mostly due to a sale at LeBaron (RIP).
 
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I have a bunch of 22 shorts and CBs. I use them with my tube magazines so I can load 18 or 20 or whatever rounds. Fill it once and don't need to reload for a while.

They used to be the same price (or cheaper?) than 22LR way back in the 70s or 80s IIRC. I think they are more expensive now-a-days.
 
I use them in my old "boy's rifles". I don't have to worry about stressing the often weak breeching of these old designs or rims blowing out.
They work fine for short range plinking.
In a modern scope sighted rifle you can watch the bullet drop on its way downrange and in my experience, grouping is not consistent and I gave up using them in my modern guns.
 
I use cci quiets in my son's gSg16, and they cycle as well as the stingers.

Not the same round of course, but they must be similar, eh?
 
As a 14 year old with his first Marlin, a 39a, the cheap shorts and longs proved to be a bit of a false economy.
Quickly converted to CIL Whiz Bangs. The price was 75 cents for a box but the local hardware sold the brick for $6.75.
 
I wish you lived nearby, I'd take some off your hands. A nice quieter alternative for yard pests and close range rabbit/squirrel hunting. They shoot fine out of my Henry lever. Also a good round for teaching a pup not to be gunshy.
 
I've been using the CB longs for eons on pest critters out of my CZ 452 Lux rifles. Nice and quiet enough that the neighbors don't notice & they print minute of rabbit noggin' out to 30 yds easy enough. Me brad nailer be louder than these rounds by a fair bit. ;)
 
Reading through this thread - some posters apparently do not know what the CB's are - much less than a .22 Short, let alone a .22 Long. As a boy, my Dad was quite convinced they would not reach all the way to a squirrel on top of big spruce tree - easy range on horizontal for him, but could not get the high ones!!! I am pretty sure that "CB" was for "conical ball" and not much more than the rimfire primer for the CB short.
 
Potashminer said:
Reading through this thread - some posters apparently do not know what the CB's are - much less than a .22 Short, let alone a .22 Long. As a boy, my Dad was quite convinced they would not reach all the way to a squirrel on top of big spruce tree - easy range on horizontal for him, but could not get the high ones!!! I am pretty sure that "CB" was for "conical ball" and not much more than the rimfire primer for the CB short.
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Guilty. I was thinking shorts and longs.
 
I used to buy CB longs for the quiet factor, they were the precursor to the "CCI QUIET-22" which of course, is long rifle.

I shot most of them from my 13" barreled JW15A Backpacker, and appreciated that they fed properly from a CZ 452-style mag. I once had a Cooey 75, which was a big rifle for a single-shot 22. From that gun, the CB LONG bullet hitting a soup can was louder than than the report of the gun itself. Granted, the barrel felt like it was a mile long. Didn't love that gun. lol I have some regular, HV/CB shorts that have been in my lock box for at least 20 years. lol Always looked at those silly things as being too loud for their size. lol Not sure why, they're no louder than a Mini-Mag or Stinger.
 
Had several bricks of both the CB-shorts & the CB-longs, and yup…..CB= Conical Ball. Both shot quite well to about 10 metres and the shorts were as quiet as a non pal air rifle. You could fire these in a small barn for pest control and not even need ear protection. Try that with a regular 22RF and your ears will be stinging.
 
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Had several bricks of both the CB-shorts & the CB-longs, and yup…..CB= Conical Ball. Both shot quite well to about 10 metres and the shorts were as quiet as a non pal air rifle. You could fire these in a small barn for pest control and not even need ear protection. Try that with a regular 22RF and your ears will be stinging.
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Yeah, I think it must have had to do something with noise, since I come from an air rifle background. I also found the Remington CBees in my stash, so more than likely trying to replicate the air rifle experience when I moved to .22s. Nowadays, with my Howard Leights, I don't even care if I have a crazy muzzle brake on my 5.56. Lol.
 
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