New rimfire cartridge - the Winchester 21 Sharp.

[jyo]

If you need a more powerful 22 rimfire, I would just go with the 22 Magnum round---already proven and in production with many guns both long and short available...

[k1dude]

Winchester Ammunition introduces an all-copper game and target round for the 21 Sharp. It will be very interesting to see if it's accurate like the .17 HMR all-copper offerings. .22 LR all-copper rounds are horrible.

The 21 Sharp 25 gr Copper Matrix will sizzle along at 1,750 fps.

[Tank 57]

Gun Tests magazine reviewed this new round. Somewhat limited due to availability of both guns and ammo. Had some issues and said pass on it for now. Got a long way to go before I'd consider it.

[CALI-gula]

.22LR will be a dead cartridge when lead ammo is banned. It's coming someday. Accuracy of lead fee .22LR has been absymal in my match grade .22's. .22LR will die off someday and something will replace it...Is this it? Time will tell.

There is so much inventory of unused .22LR in military, commercial, and privately owned inventory, having amassed billions if not trillions of unused ammo historically, it will be around for a very long time through many, many avenues, that we will never see it run out completely for the next 5 lifetimes. Humans as a whole will cease to exist before .22LR ever becomes unavailable through some way or means.

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[CALI-gula]

An answer to a question that was never asked. Just a way to charge more money for ammo. YMMV.

Sums it up for me.

What the article greatly missed in the very point they are trying to press as to why .22LR is so popular is missing in this: "Currently .22 LR sales account for 2.5 billion of the country’s total 10-12 billion rounds sold annually. Why does .22 LR continue to sell so briskly? Because it’s fun, useful, and because it’s cheap."

All true. However, what they left out of that same sentence is that it's also because millions of people have guns chambered in .22LR to feed them that same ammo.

Guns have been chambered in .22LR since 1887 and have ALSO been produced by the millions since then, in all shapes and sizes, handguns and rifles alike. And because .22LR does not have a tendency to blow things up, many of those guns, even if more than 100 years old, can still put plenty of .22LR down-range. Add to that, that many, many guns chambered for .22LR were equally cheap and plentiful so people that buy cheap guns want to also buy cheap ammo. Millions of kids' first guns were chambered in .22LR, and they still have those guns, so .22LR is not going anywhere.

Even a great number of people that are not 'gun people' likely have at least something chambered in .22LR in a drawer, closet, or trunk somewhere.

So no large amount of people are going to rush out to get something chambered in, or 're-barreled' as the article suggest, to switch to Win 21-Sharp. Just not gonna happen.

I'm sure not, purely because it simply doesn't excite me all that much. Not when there's 5.7X28, and .22WMR if I've got an itch for something small but pushing fast and accurate.

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[PoorRichRichard]

12 gauge. /thread fool-booties….