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This may only be of interest to me, but... Three or four years ago I didn't buy a very nicely restored Winder Musket at the Tulsa show because it had been rechambered from 22 Short to Long Rifle. I think this has been done to quite a few nice old gallery rifles and I wasn't sure the original slower twist barrel would be accurate with the available modern ammo.
This morning I was driving by a Bass Pro Shop, and went in to see what they had on the shelf in 22LR ammo. It wasn't much, but they did have both single boxes and bricks of Australian manufactured Winchester 22 Long CB-Match with a 29 gr. bullet. I paid the reasonable sum of $4.00 for a box. The Winchester part number is: X22LRCBMA. If you have a rifle in 22 Short which has been altered, this might be exactly what you need. I used and liked some of the Australian manufactured Winchester 22LR match ammo ten or twelve years ago, but then it went away.
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I've been shooting CCI CB Longs inside my shop for years, in both the fast LR-twist bbls as well as the slower ones made for Shorts. Used a slow-twist liner match-chambered for LR in one app and it worked perfectly with the CB Longs. Great offhand practice at 10 yds.
Regards, Joe
You can lead a man to logic but you can't make him think. NRA Life since 1976. God bless America!
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Both my Winders are "chambered" for Short, but both will accept a loaded LR round. It is just like loading a cartridge into a match chamber. Accuracy with the slower twist barrels is not good, but there do not seem to be any adverse impacts on either rifle or cartridge case. You don't have to "rechamber" a Winder. But if you have one in Short and are after accuracy with 22 LR, you need a new barrel. I shall try the CB-match Longs for accuracy at 25 & 50 yards as soon as I can get a couple of boxes.
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Like Joe, I've been using the CCI CBs for a long time. They shoot well enough in a regular .22 LR barrel to kill "unwanted guests" like rats and woodchucks at close range. (We also had a beaver start cutting down the woods around our house in NYS. And then he didn't. But I DON'T cop to that crime, although my children claim there was this old dude in camis lurking by the creekside one drizzly dawn...) We ran a decible test comparing my 28" Martini with CBs against my neighbor's fancy RWS 36 German air rifle and the air rifle was slightly louder.
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