22 short ammo

[Richard58]

I can find 22lr and 22 mag everywhere since things have eased up on the big scare but I can't find no 22 short ammo anywhere. I'm down to three bullets that I found out in my tool shed. I can't find any online either.

[OV-1D]

  Here in central Florida it is the opposite . BUY,BUY,BUY everything you come across because its always worth its weight in almost gold . By the way WELCOME ABOARD .............................. The Titanic if you're waiting on a top-break . Did I say that shame on me .

[theysayimnotme]

I still have some left from when I sold my HI-Standard Olympic pistol back in 1972 when I needed to buy a new car.(along with several others of course)  The boxes still have the 49 cent price tags on them. I had almost a brick but I gave several boxes to my son-in-law when he bought an old .22 short rifle.
I do have an NAA .22 short & a Butler .22 short derringer so I will have to keep what I have. I even recently found about thirty either CB or BB caps I didn't know I had.

[GunsNTrucks]

Have you tried gunbroker? You won't get it cheap but there's usually some on there. Sometimes you can get a fair deal on a nos box of vintage ammo. I bought 2 boxes of Western Super-X (Pre-Winchester) hi velocity 22 short for $18 shipped to my door.

It is for my Rohm RG10 

[cfsharry]

bulkammo.com, 500 rounds Aguila 29gr shorts for $74.00.

[Richard58]

I will check that site, thanks. Don't really need 500 rounds of 22 short. I was thinking just 2 or 3 boxes.

[PaducahMichael]

Another great ammo locating site is Ammoseek.com

[zorba]

Another great ammo locating site is Ammoseek.com

Yep, ammoseek shows a boatload of .22 shorts available as low as 7.6 cents/rd.

[theysayimnotme]

When you add $9.99 for shipping that becomes a bit high, better get a brick. What was really shocking was the price for BB & CB caps.

[zburkett]

I haunt little gun shops and occasionally run across all sorts of unusual ammo.  When it is .22 shorts I pick it up just because it will shoot in a mini and someday I may find a short mini and need it.

[nastruck]

I have been looking for shorts forever too. I'm always surprised that I can't find any.... 

[To Old To Run]

I'm starting to see more 22s stocked on the shelves lately so maybe things are calming down a little, and just maybe we might see some shorts out there. I did see some longs last time I was out, so that's a good sign.
I wouldn't mind having a couple of boxes myself, fun plinkers.

[Richard58]

Found a box of Aguilar shorts. Don't know how these will do since iv never shot any but I got a box.

[OLD and GRUMPY]

When the ammo shortage started the only .22 on the shelf was shorts. I picked up a lot.Nobody wanted it. I use it in single shot rifles and revolvers. Used it when LR looked like it would never come back thus saving my LR. As a short range rifle round it is under rated. At 25 yards The squirrel is dinner.

On the same note the other rifle round that was never gone was .270. Big lonely stack on a empty shelf. Might want to put one in the bunker.

[zburkett]

The largest animals I've ever seen killed with a gun were killed with .22 shorts.  When I was a kid growing up on a ranch, every year we fed a steer and the butcher came out and killed and dressed it before taking it to town to butcher.  He had one of those slick little .22 short Browning semi autos and would shoot the steer right behind the left ear.  Its feet would come up off the ground and it would hit the ground dead.  If I remember my reading right, that first model Smith & Wesson carried during the War of Northern Aggression was a .22 short.  Just because it is little and cute, don't underestimate it.

[n9znd]

   That short ammo that you have there is the best in my opinion.   I was shooting a old car hood and was trying different ammo through my Short including some shortened 60 g. Aquilla. I couldn't believe that was the only ammo the penetrated the hood.  I also shot LR out of a Phoenix Arms and it wouldn't even poke a hole in the hood.   I have several of them 22 short rounds and like them.  Jim

[GunsNTrucks]

   That short ammo that you have there is the best in my opinion.   I was shooting a old car hood and was trying different ammo through my Short including some shortened 60 g. Aquilla. I couldn't believe that was the only ammo the penetrated the hood.  I also shot LR out of a Phoenix Arms and it wouldn't even poke a hole in the hood.   I have several of them 22 short rounds and like them.  Jim

Are you saying you shortened the 60 gr subsonic sniper rounds to fit a 22 short chambering? My understanding is those are low velocity being a subsonic cartridge.

22 short will outperform LR when shot from a short barrel because it was designed as a pistol round. Makes me wonder why there are no LR offerings optimized for a short barrel like there is for 22 mag.

Zburkett: 22 short was the first mass produced US cartridge and was intended for self defense but that was back in the black powder era. Those old revolvers would not be safe to use with modern smokeless rounds. People do shoot primer only ammo out of them, of course those are wimpy. But so was BP propelled 22.

[Richard58]

Another round on the shelves in my area was 40 s&w when other stuff had been gone and 30-30 Winchester for rifles.

[cfsharry]

Here be four examples, S&W Model Ones.

[cfsharry]

Third revolver is a Rolin White made for S&W as they could not keep up with demand for the Second Issue revolver.
A lot of these little fellows were carried by men on each side during the War to Preserve the Union.

[OV-1D]

  Beautiful pieces Harry .

[To Old To Run]

What more could a guy ask for... having my afternoon coffee and come across a fine picture of these four great looking pistols.
Thanks Harry!

[zburkett]

That's a collection that makes me drool.

[n9znd]

  I think it did outperform the cut down 60g. LR.   But the rounds did put quite deep divot in the hood and bigger then what the regular Federal did out of the Phoenix arms.     But I couldn't believe how easy the Short went right through the hood and I couldn't tell for sure but almost looked like it went through the webbing of the hood underneath.    As a last ditch, Bug, stick in their ear gun I would be okay with the short as an equal to the LR.  Jim

[nastruck]

WOW Harry thems some awesome revolvers!!!! 

[boone123]

Those look really good..

[RogueTS1]

Very nice Harry.

[OV-1D]

Heres a few more short shooters . Back in those days any shot could be lethal with no antibiotics around , so 22 short just might be a slow death unlike a 45 hole .

[heyjoe]

22 short will kill you dead right there, it it hits the right area. i never realized until today that cci makes a hollow point 22 short.

[cfsharry]

Seriously doubt that, with it's relatively low velocity, a short hollow point wouldn't expand.

[tocsn40]

22 short will kill you dead right there, it it hits the right area. i never realized until today that cci makes a hollow point 22 short.

Those are just what I have in my short.   I have collected many of the bullets I've fired. Not many of the hollow point was opened. 

[grayelky]

I have read of folks cutting the lead portion of a long rifle down so the overall length is the same as a 22 short. Since a 22 chamber is the same diameter all the way through, it is reported to function just fine. I might be a little leary of trying this in an older gun, but, I suspect most any modern 22 short would contain the pressure with no problem. While I have not tried this, I cannot recommend its use. I only mention it for conversation purposes.

[bill_deshivs]

Of course they make hollow point .22 shorts.
From a rifle a high velocity short has about the same velocity as a H/V long rifle.
As stated above, from a handgun, short velocity is likely HIGHER than long rifle.

[zburkett]

Does anyone know how a short compares to a CCI Quiet 22?

[heyjoe]

Of course they make hollow point .22 shorts.
From a rifle a high velocity short has about the same velocity as a H/V long rifle.
As stated above, from a handgun, short velocity is likely HIGHER than long rifle.

you learn something new everyday. i never had a .22 rifle.