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The ammo shown above looks to be in a pretty ropy state so I'm looking at ways of disposing of it safely that doesn't involve ruining a barrel. Also, there's over 1000 rounds of the stuff so it could take a bit of time. I know there are collectors out there that would be interested in some of the boxes though.


Iain

Iain,
Is the Winchester 22Auto a slightly necked case?
I have some here in a very similar box that is not 22LR.

Hi Mattnall. Sorry for the delay. This any good?



Iain

oops....got the wrong one . This is what I should have been looking at



Iain

Yeah, that last one is the same as the ones I have here, or certainly look the same. There are a few shooters around with rifles chambered in 22Win and I don't know where they get their ammo.
The person I got them from found them on a beam in a greenhouse on his nursery, probably left from a pest session operation many years ago, and he realised when he tried to ram one in his little rifle and it went off OOB when he gave it a bit of muscle.

I've got just under a 100 of these looking for a good home (after I've kept the obligatory few for my collection).

Taken from an American Rimfire site where they have some genuine experts rather than keyboard ones :

"Only used in the Winchester Model 1903, an earlier version of the 63 semiauto. Winchester made this cartridge to force users to not put regular 22 long rifle in it, cause at the time there were plenty of powder fouling issues that would make the rifle inoperative in no time flat. The cleaner burning powders developed not long afterwards cleared the way for acceptance of the long rifle and the demise of both the model 1903 and the 22 automatic ammo it fired. Remington also made its version for this rifle, the .22 Special I believe it was called".

From what I can gather (although I stand to be corrected), it's not technically a WIN round. The OOB probably came about because this round was made for a specific rifle make and type.

Iain

Yep the .22 Win Auto has caused a few issues for people. A guy in our club has inherited one, got to go on FAC despite the near impossibility of finding ammo...

Iain, as an aside, it's somewhat ironic to quote a "genuine expert" whose quote finishes with, "I believe it was called"...

Sim G wrote:...it's somewhat ironic to quote a "genuine expert" whose quote finishes with, "I believe it was called"...

Truth. Don't forget, they're not keyboard experts. I would imagine they enter data into the forum using the power of their mind. Psychography I believe it was called.

I don’t see that I quoted anyone; I merely reposted an extract from someone with knowledge of the subject matter for clarification and information.

Regarding “I believe it was called”, it’s plainly evident that the original author is admitting a degree of uncertainty about one particular point. Nothing more, nothing less.

Why the minor semantics are so much of an issue to you that it requires mentioning is puzzling but, whatever floats your boat.

And yet another topic veers off at an extreme tangent.

Reposting, is quoting. You introduced it with the term "genuine expert". The expert appears not to be.

You take offence. You can't decern banter. There, there snowflake...