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To: Bear_Slayer
What brand of .22 is the most deadly?

No such thing. There are only deadly men.

61 posted on 12/10/2006 3:36:14 PM PST by ExSoldier (Democracy is 2 wolves and a lamb voting on dinner. Liberty is a well armed lamb contesting the vote.)
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To: ExSoldier
"What brand of .22 is the most deadly?"

It might be a scary sounding 22 Automatic ?

I own one that my grandfather bought new.

Winchester 1903 22 cal. Automatic. ( yes, they are labeled as automatic)

They were the first commercial 22 semi- auto but the normal 22 LR rimfire of the time were black powder and would foul the action after a few shots.

So Winchester made the 22 automatic chambers and cartriges slightly larger in dia. so they wouldn't fit in the regular 22 cal. and used smokeless powder.

I believe the thinking was the higher chamber pressures of the smokeless powder might damage the older black powder 22's.
70 posted on 12/10/2006 4:25:34 PM PST by Beagle8U
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