gwalchmai Posted September 17, 2022 Share Posted September 17, 2022 Dang. I was surprised... 1 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
janice6 Posted September 17, 2022 Share Posted September 17, 2022 7 hours ago, gwalchmai said: Dang. I was surprised... In my more formative years, my father let me put up a short .22 shooting range in the basement of an old mansion we lived in. We lived in the ground floor of one half and the rest was rental apartments. The basement had a Sand floor, poured concrete against 3 ft. thick Granite blocks for foundation. The Granite was so roughly laid that my dad used the poured concrete to at least smooth out a portion of the foundation walls. He and I had dug out the dirt that had back filled the basement. Took all Summer and I'm sure I gained a few pounds of weight due to the dirt in the air. I made a box full of gravel about 1 ft. square place against the poured concrete using 3/4 inch boards. I shot a lot of .22's in that room. My hearing is probably testament to that, now. The box stopped all the .22 rounds. One day I needed a new target. I found an empty Prepo (Trade name) can that had contained some gas fuel, obviously. I threw it onto the sand floor and popped it with a .22 short. The fireball must have been 3 feet in diameter and slowly roiling went up into the floor joists above. It was like the Fourth of July when all the spider webs started flashing white as they burned, just like flash bulbs of the old days. The fireball got to the joists and spread out somewhat uniformly cleaning all the dust and bug webs. For just a minute, I thought I had burned the house down. Another day my father went to town to shop. My sisters were in the second floor and I had the guns and basement to myself. Being an adventurous sort, I got the .33 Winchester lever action I used for hunting. God, I loved that rifle!!!! Put one round in it and was careful to aim at my box of gravel to catch the bullet. I squared off and pulled the trigger................................ The bang was so loud that I felt it like being punched in the chest, (small room). At that moment, all the remaining dirt in the ceiling joists came slowly floating down from the joists as one uniform layer. If I hadn't been so stunned, It might have been beautiful. I noticed in the moment, everything got so quiet. About the time I heard the ricochets stop I waited to see if I felt any pain or blood leaking. Fortunately, I seemed to be intact minus my hearing. I would never believed the bullet would bounce off the walls that many times! My oldest sister came bounding down the basement steps about three at a time screaming! I couldn't hear what she said but she seemed to be upset. When I finally could figure out what she was screaming, it sounded like, "What the hell was that!!!! It sounded like all Hell broke loose!!!!". I explained that I was shooting and she simply shook her head and said something derogatory about me, as usual, then went back upstairs to her room in the second floor. I checked the box and it had an entry hole and you could put your fist through the exit hole in the back. Most of the gravel was gone and their was a large gouge in the concrete behind the box. I cleaned up my self from all the crap that came down from the joists and went to play. My father asked why the tenants were saying they heard a lout boom, but I of course heard nothing. I don't know how much hearing I lost that day, but it was glorious!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 3 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gwalchmai Posted September 17, 2022 Author Share Posted September 17, 2022 I learned that a 3" .410 with #6 will go through a full Sears catalog, my bedroom carpet, and a quarter-inch of hardwood floor... 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Walt Longmire Posted September 17, 2022 Share Posted September 17, 2022 Today I learned that you can indeed shoot .22 lr from a magnum cylinder. 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gwalchmai Posted September 17, 2022 Author Share Posted September 17, 2022 17 minutes ago, Walt Longmire said: Today I learned that you can indeed shoot .22 lr from a magnum cylinder. I've fired .44 Magnums out of a S&W 625 .45 Colt. Accuracy sucks. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DAKA Posted September 17, 2022 Share Posted September 17, 2022 21 minutes ago, Walt Longmire said: Today I learned that you can indeed shoot .22 lr from a magnum cylinder. I've wondered about that (NAA revolver) 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tous Posted September 17, 2022 Share Posted September 17, 2022 Rimfire cartridges headspace on the rim, so a .22 Long Rifle, magnum or short all look the same to the striker or hammer nose. The difference is the distance the bullet has to travel to engage the rifling for a semi-auto or rifle or enter the forcing cone for a revolver. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Walt Longmire Posted September 17, 2022 Share Posted September 17, 2022 56 minutes ago, tous said: Rimfire cartridges headspace on the rim, so a .22 Long Rifle, magnum or short all look the same to the striker or hammer nose. The difference is the distance the bullet has to travel to engage the rifling for a semi-auto or rifle or enter the forcing cone for a revolver. The magnum has a larger case diameter. I pretty much figured out what was going on due to some of the cases splitting. This was in an old 1st generation Ruger Single Six. No caliber markings on the gun or the cylinder. The cylinder is numbered to the gun but isn't marked magnum anywhere. Somewhere there is a .22lr cylinder for this old revolver. BTW, it's the 9" bbl version. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tous Posted September 18, 2022 Share Posted September 18, 2022 You are correct, sir. Case diameter for a .22 Magnum is around .20 inches (.226 vs .242) more than a .22 Long Rifle. NB My Single Six was among my favorite pistols. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
minervadoe Posted September 18, 2022 Share Posted September 18, 2022 "Aye cabrone!" Almost killed by a flying safe door. Didn't they shoot an oxygen cylinder to kill the Great White shark in jaws? Maybe Hollywood got something right. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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