Posted on 08/03/2016 11:17:06 AM PDT by servo1969
"This was truly a dream come true for me. I can't thank the people at CCI and Speer enough for allowing me to do this. I couldn't possibly show everything that went on at the factory. However, hopefully I showed you enough for you to grasp the concept of how rimfire is made."
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BTTT
Now for an explanation of why we still have long as opposed to long rifle .22 ammunition. What’s the point?
To All: how’s 22LR availability been in your areas?
Is it still in short supply / high price?
It has been almost 45 years ago that a clerk in the store where I used to buy most of my .22LR opinionated that the .22 long was still being inventoried in that particular store "because there are a lot of idiots around here."
Harsh.
lots here in Dallas area...CCI is now back to old prices too.
Very cool, BTW!
22plinkster -- 20 hours ago
I had to be careful what I filmed. They haven't let anyone film in there for 9 years.
a very interesting tour! Thanks for posting it.
One of my favorite memories from childhood was touring the Springfield Armory museum in Springfield MA. They had demonstrations of musket making that helped me decide to become an engineer when I grew up.
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My family went to Sierra Bullets in Sedalia for a tour a couple of years ago. No pictures allowed.
We also got to see their underground ballistic testing facility and talk to the ballistician.
Very nice people as well.
Bump for reference.
Great video!
I could never figure it out, except perhaps that there are long guns only chambered in long.
Inertia... Many shotgun shell boxes are still marked with Dram Equivalents, which is a throwback to black powder.
I’m in Garland, haven’t seen any at the local WallyWorld for a month or so, but it was there earlier in the summer.
‘Course, the guy at the counter told me he has 10 cases at home so I think we know where a lot of it went.
A few of my schoolmates used older .22s that really were meant for “long” only, but I can’t recall exactly what brands or models. One of my buddies had a “Saturday night special” revolver - the rest of us only had rifles or shotguns - which he would occasionally “borrow” me, and which would only take shorts, longs or a long rifle round that had the front of the bullet trimmed… the longs were harder to find than long rifles, so he nipped off many a LR bullet to make do. The thing I particularly remember about that rig was that the lopped-off rounds shot all over the map, the longs were better, and the shorts performed best of all.
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