Rimfire verses center fire

[Skerby]

cool! hit me with that 50 browning machine gun cartridge
if you want to know a lot about this, the best way is to buy a reloading manual.. more in there for like $20 then you'll ever need to know! i reload 357/38 specials with my lovely Dillon XL650!.. experimented w/ different primers, different bullets, different powders and powder charges.. in the end i just load up +p's in both b/c i like the bigger bang (with hearing protection on of course, especially w/ the 357.. shot two w/o and they're way too loud!)

 

[scott_vt]

Now someone post for Richard the price difference between a box of fifty 22 long rifle shells and 50 of those howitzers?

Mornin Moss,
Well the last time I bought a box of 22-250 shells, 20 to a box BTW, the price was about $13.50. Im not sure what a box of 22LR are going for now, but you do get 50 to a box ! Pretty cheap really, I usually shoot a box of 22-250 then bring out my plinker ! Not nearly as expensive to pull the trigger, but you dont get that echo comming back at you from the mountains either !

 

[Soundguy]

Speaking of ammo prices.. at the last show I went to I was buying some .50AE .. about fainted when i saw the price of a 20 rnd box.

Soundguy

 

[GaryM]

Hey, I bought a .22LR conversion unit for my AR-15. Lot's cheaper to shoot and at reasonable range, 50-60 yards, the impact point's almost the same.

 

[schmism]

Kinetic energy does most of the killing on flesh.

if you can TRANSFER the engergy to the flesh! a through and through shot on a fully jacketed round and your not going to have much "knock down power"

a .17 HMR with blastic (plastic) tip, designed to fragmet on impact transfering almost its entire energy to the target = drop em dead on impact

you want to reliably drop ground squirls /prairy dogs etc at 150 yds you need the .17 HMR

if your into longer range "reach out and touch someone" for varmit hunting 200 yard + you need to step up to a 22-250.

 

[redlevel]

Just to muddy the waters a little more lets discuss the proper terminology.



The Bullet is the actual projectile.

Powder is the propellent; it ignites and burns, developing pressure behind the Bullet as it is driven from the

Case, sometimes called the Cartridge Case, which holds the Powder, the Bullet, and the

Primer which ignites the Powder when it is struck by the firing pin.

The complete round, composed of the Case, the Powder, the Primer, and the Bullet, is called a Cartridge.

The sequence: the firing pin strikes the primer, which ignites the powder, which drives the bullet out of the case and down the barrel.

I don't know. I might could have done that better.

 

[GaryM]

That's good enough for most!

 

[texbaylea]

Let me muddy them more. .22 rin fire bullets are usually .222-.223 in diameter while center fire bullets are in the .224-.225 range. Then among the .224-.225 center fires you have such cartridge names as .22 Hornet, .218 Bee, 220 Swift, .223 Remington, etc. Confusing, Huh.

Vernon

 

[HomeBrew2]

And .219 Zipper

 

[BillyP]

Let me muddy them more. .22 rin fire bullets are usually .222-.223 in diameter while center fire bullets are in the .224-.225 range. Then among the .224-.225 center fires you have such cartridge names as .22 Hornet, .218 Bee, 220 Swift, .223 Remington, etc. Confusing, Huh.

Vernon

For ones that may not know...

Someone decides what sounds best I guess. Take the 44, it's actually a .429! Why didn't they just call it a 429 magnum? Lots of cartridges like that. Just because it's called xx caliber doesn't mean much