This will be interesting...
The Firearm Blog » Winchester Introduces 3,000 fps Rimfire Cartridge
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This will be interesting...
The Firearm Blog » Winchester Introduces 3,000 fps Rimfire Cartridge
Seems like fun.
Kinda neat if it's priced competitively
Cool! Now what will ammo cost :rolleyes::sly:
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The rimfire is nice not having to think about spent brass, no dies etc but tyring to fit something between the HMR and hornadys .17 hornet looks like a bit a sqeeze.
I would rather have the 223 with 800 yrd varmint capability.
Nothing to see here. A caliber that has nothing special about it, will cost even more than the already expensive HMR, isn't reloadable, has less grunt than the 17 hornet.
Next thing you know they'll be selling a 21 caliber to fit in between the 223 and 204. It's just a marketing thing.
Cost will be it of course.
If ammo was the same price as 17hmr and you didn't already have one which would you get rimfire ?
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Nothing 17. Now if they did this in a .22 I'd be more interested even at a slower speed than 3000fps so long as the ammo costs were competitive (read cheaper than .223)....
That case with the 30gr 22cal v max ? Hmmm
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Right now? Neither... because the 17 hornet is very nearly at our doorstep. Rifles are already on their way over apparently.
But IF I didn't already have an HMR and IF the hornet wasn't on its way over I'd give it some thought for sure (depending on who chambers it and whether it actually works out. No one wants to be left with a rimfire rifle in a caliber no one sells).
Do you guys think the .17WSM would be better if it was center fire so you could reload it?
we need to remember that in a lot of countrys, a rim fire is treated diferently to a centerfire, in australia for example a rim fire is 'a' class where centerfire is 'b', they have melted into practly the same thing now but rimfires were ok for junior shooters but you had to be 18 to use a centerfire, for example.
ammo cost and avaiable actions will be the trick, when horneydaze 223 training ammo was costing 70c and 17hmr 60c each, plenty of people just went to the .223. they will want to make sure the ammo is the same as 17hmr and it will go ok otherwise, the 223 will take this out of the equasion.
greg
" Winchester manufactures .27 caliber rimfire casings already for use in powered fasteners (what we rednecks call “nail guns”). "
time for a new project . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
haha now we talking time to see if we can get some of these and go from there may be????
:thumbsup::shave:
the old kiwi no how can do attitude coming out now
i cant find the mad scientist face
Stug's avatar is what your after
Ramset charges are colour coded according to their power level, Purples are the most powerful from memory, but its been 30 yrs since i have used them commercially.
I used them to tighten bedford/isuzu truck suspension hangars to the chassis when altering chassis lengths.
Purples had crimped case mouths.
I have crimping dies here that i use to make blanks in any chambering, but nothing to 'de crimp' a case so it can be pulled apart safely.
One I used looked like .22 shells
Still got charges at work, cant use em need some license(firearms not applicable) and not worth the money for the amount we used it.
But it is very cool to nail a 4x2 straight into 12-14mm steel:)
keeping in mind that longer than a 17hmr will require a short action
prices of rifles will be more than the average rimfire,
gotta say tho I like the idea. keep things moving forward
it is my understanding that any rimfire smaller than .22 is not covered in the MSSA definition, if someone produces a semi with 30 round mags ill be in with a grin.
wat and see
from what i herd it could be in the next 12 weeks