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Offline slughunter 45

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sporter and 22 shorts
« on: December 18, 2010, 03:02:29 PM »
hello iam thinking of taking a 22 sporter and put a 4x scope on it for varmits in the garden and shoot shorts only.but i have not shoot one do they do good with shorts
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Re: sporter and 22 shorts
« Reply #1 on: December 18, 2010, 03:24:54 PM »
They will do fine, but H&R tells you not to do it because you can load a short in some rifles so that the rim is under the ejector, when you try to close the action it will fire the round with the action only partly closed with gets very exceting.  Larry
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Re: sporter and 22 shorts
« Reply #2 on: December 18, 2010, 04:43:43 PM »
If your shots are within 25 yards or so I'd just stick with CB Longs. My sportster shoots them good enough at that distance for head shots on squirrels and such plus they are quieter than most shorts.
Jim
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Re: sporter and 22 shorts
« Reply #3 on: December 19, 2010, 04:33:20 AM »
Remington now markets what they call 'CBees' in .22Long Rifle; a 33gr. truncated cone HP bullet @ 740fps. These should fill up a chamber pretty well. They also make their 'Sub-Sonic' in LR which work really well for me, but Im in the country.
I have the Sportster barrel with open sites for fun/plinkin', if I were going to snipe little varmints I'd have a scope for sure.
BTW, I have shot .22CB Shorts in it and didnt have any trouble, but a youngster might. If the rim slips past the extractor and it gets slammed shut it could go off without the breech locked.
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Re: sporter and 22 shorts
« Reply #4 on: December 19, 2010, 06:51:41 AM »
"CB's" (i.e. - conical bullet) can be purchased in either CB shorts or CB longs. They are each loaded with the same amount of propellant, however the CB longs are in a .22 long rifle casing while the .22 CB shorts are loaded in .22 short cases (Duh). The .22 longs are much easier to handle with cold or fumbling fingers. I will still buy CB shorts if they have no CB Longs in stock, but I now much prefer the .22 CB Longs. They shoot the same...<><....:)
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Re: sporter and 22 shorts
« Reply #5 on: December 20, 2010, 09:36:00 AM »
FWIW, in mine the .22Short HP HV (all I could find for sale here is HV) have quite a report, if noise is an issue for you.
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