Shorts and longs?

The three shell lengths were mainly a selling point I believe. You can imagine shooting a cartridge that is 1/2 inch long thru a chamber that is 1 inch long. The build up of residue would be huge. The older guns were workhorses and not much care was taken to keep them operating a peak shape. Shells were much cheaper back then and wages were low. thus you could buy ammo that you could afford.

The reason they suggest long rifle is that the accuracy is best with the cartridge that closely fits the chamber length. Also now shorts and longs are more expensive to buy and increasingly harder to find. And the LR is more proficient at longer distances. IMO
 
Well you can't run shorts in most semi-auto's (say a ruger 10/22) becasue they won't cycle the bolt. But if you load them one at a time they work fine. All of my bolt action .22 cycle shorts regardless of what they are marked. Most new .22's won't even mention that they can cycle shorts probably becasue most people just don't use them anymore.
 
I was just thinking how accurate my savage cub is with shorts and lr, firing a short in a chamber as big as a lr is not going to have any issues then? Other then fouling, of course, I shot 100 rounds of cb shorts and like a dummy fired a lr, it took some needle nose pliers to pull out the case.
Man, that cub is a great little gun, though.
 
Same as firing a 2 3/4" shell in a shotgun designed for 3" shells.

.22lr CBs eliminate the need for .22 shorts, for me anyways. You can still use a detachable magazine.
 
.22 Short in a LR chamber won't hurt anything, just like .38 Special in a .357 Magnum. .22LR would probably give the best accuracy, though.

Any .22LR firearm will safely fire .22 Short, but many (especially semis) work only loading singly into the chamber. As mentioned above, I'm sure that many guns are stamped .22LR just because hardly anybody uses Shorts or Longs anymore. They were once popular because they cost less, but that isn't the case anymore.
 
The short had the shot case and short bullet,the long had the long case and short bullet and the long rifle had the long case and a long bullet.
 
Love CCI CB shorts. Run great in the boy's Marlin 915's and I have a VQ "22 Short mag" for my 10/22. I have cycle the bolt manually though, tilt, open, case falls out, upright, close bolt, fire, repeat. Works like a charm though.

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Polar Man said:
How is it that some rifles can shoot short, long, and lr, but others say lr only?
What is the difference in the chambers?
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Other than describing what is necessary to cycle the action ;), another issue may be more about the feed-mechanism than the chambers :redface: : shorts, longs and CB's may simply be too short to feed from the elevator into the chamber on some .22 LR rifles....:yingyang:
 
do .22 longs even exist anymore? I've seen lots of lr (obviously) and most places will have some shorts... but I can honestly say I've never seen a .22 long
 
cyclone said:
Other than describing what is necessary to cycle the action ;), another issue may be more about the feed-mechanism than the chambers :redface: : shorts, longs and CB's may simply be too short to feed from the elevator into the chamber on some .22 LR rifles....:yingyang:
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+1. Much of it is that not all rifles can feed shorts properly, especially the ones with detachable box mags. The tube fed ones seem to work pretty well with shorts from what I can tell.

Mark
 
al simmons in hamilton and triggers and bows in burford have a lot of shorts and longs. i get them for my winchester 600.
longs have same velocity and just easier to deal with than shorts . its 710 fps, same as shorts.
they will work excellent in any rifle except semi you have to cycle the bolt by hand and of course you have to adjust your sights cause they drop a lot over distance.
 
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