Ammunition company Remington is re-introducing .22 Short rimfire ammunition to its line-up, at least in the US.
The diminutive cartridge, first introduced in 1857, fires a 29-grain projectile at around 1050fps and was popular in early pocket revolvers as well as turn-of-the-century shooting gallery rifles such as the Winchester Model 1893, due to its extremely quiet report and non-existent recoil.
The cartridge is, as its name suggests, a shorter version of .22 LR and can be fired out of many firearms chambered for the more common round, especially manually-operated rifles and revolvers.
Despite being rendered obsolete by the ubiquitous .22 LR in 1887, the round hung on in the US and parts of Europe as a short-range pest-control round or indoor plinking round; it was also used in Olympic 25m pistol matches until 2004.
Remington previously discontinued the round some years ago, but it remained in production by CCI and Aguila.
At this stage there are no plans to bring the Remington .22 Short ammunition to Australia, with a representative of NIOA (the Remington importer for Australia) saying there was extremely limited demand here for .22 Short ammunition.
NIOA already carries CCI .22 Short ammunition, which the representative said was serving the local markets’ needs.
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