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1 2 3 4 5
Varied nose forms, from hemispheric to
2 3 4 5 6 7
CB caps use BB cap case and charge, and a 29-gr. bullet.
These are: 1-USCC, 2-USCC, variant bullet; 3-Peters,
conical, identify BB caps made by: 1-
UMC, 2-USCC, 3-Win., 4-Peters, 5-WCC. copper case; 4-Peters, brass case; 5-UMC, 6-WCC, 7-Win.

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Headstamps provide the greatest challenge to rimfire collectors. The samples above are by: 1-Crit.-Tib., large caliber; 2-UMC, .267 R.F.;
3-UMC, 4-USCC, impressed letters; 5-USCC, raised letters; 6-A&W, 7-Peters, 8-Phoenix, 9-Union, 10-Leet, 11-Win., and 12-Amer. Met.

• B REE CH-LOADING firearms date back

through the flintlock era and earlier.
Problems such as sealing the breech,

mer1con
moisture-proofing the cartridges, and
extracting empty cases were, of course,
serious in turn as improved arms were
developed, but each was solved. Every
imaginable kind of material was used to
make ca rt ridge cases for the early hn:cch-
loaders paper, ruhher, linen, metal foil.

• etc. Disks, arms, cords, wires. and other

appendages were attached to cartridges as
a means of withdrawing the spent cases

1m ire
from the chamber. Cartridges were coated
with a variety of substances in an effort
to keep the powder dry; tallow, shellac,
varnish, and collodion were used.
With all this ingenuity, however, it was
not until 1854 that the concept of
including the priming material as part of

• the cartridge - possibly the most signifi-

cant concept in the history of American
firearms - was given serious considera-
tion. On Aug. 8, 1854, Horace Smith and

or r1 es
Daniel B. Wesson of Springfield, Mass.,
were granted U.S. Patent No. 11,496 for a
cartridge which claimed the placing of a
pellet of priming powder between the soft
metal head and a hard metal (probably
iron) disk anvil. The sketch which accom-

Part I panies this patent is reminiscent of the

Flobert cartridges patented in France in
1845, except that the Flobert cartridges
In the first of his two-port series, the author costs on historical contained no anvil and had the fulminate
spread in a thin layer over the whole
interior of the base. The similarity of these
look at rimfires from the .22 Short to the .41 Long. cartridges is understandable, since Horace
Smith had previously been involved in the
BY PAUL KLATT manufacture of Flobert-type pistols.

Enhanced performance .22s appeared prior

to 1900 and endure as the .22 WMR. 1-.22

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Rem., WCC; 2-.22 Rem., UMC, smokeless;
3-.22 Win. Auto, Win.; 4-.22 Win. Auto,
USCC; 5-.22 Win. Auto, UMC; 6-.22 Win.
Auto, Peters; 7-.22 WRF, Win. 8-.22 WRF,
wee; 9- and 10- .22 Rem. Spl, uscc, arid
2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 the same case with a variant bullet design.

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Whether the 1854 patent Smith and
Wesson cartridges were actually manufac-
tured is not known, as no specimen has yet
come to light.
Smith and Wesson continued their
experiments with self-contained ammuni-
tion and were granted U.S. Patent No.
14,147 on Jan. 22, 1856, for a cartridge
which contained the powder, the priming
material, and an iron anvil within the base
.of the projectile. This became the famous
Volcanic "loaded ball" cartridge. For one
reason or another, neither the cartridge
nor the repeating arm manufactured for it
were commercially successful. They sur-
vived long enough, however, to indicate a
real interest in self-contained ammunition.
Undaunted by the failure of the Vol-
canic venture, Smith and Wesson pro-
ceeded with their work, and they were
granted U.S. Patent No. 27,933 on April
17 , 1860, for "a cartridge in which the
fulminate was contained in a hollow,
annular, projecting base." The inventors
claimed that Flobert-type cartridges were
not adapted for a revolving pistol because
"the explosion of these cartridges ...
caused the base to bulge out . . . by which
means the cylinder was jammed and
prevented from revolving freely." To
obviate this objection, the patentees
proposed to make "the cartridge case with
a projecting flange .. . around its base so
as to form an annular recess . .. in which
the fulminating powder was placed , the
fulminate from the central portion of the
head being removed ." "Removed" is not
the best word choice here, since a basic
feature of the Smith and Wesson patent
The following abbreviations are used to
identify manufacturers of rimfire cartridges
illustrated: Al/en-Ethan Allen, A&W-Allen &
Wheelock, Amer. Met-American Metallic
Ctg. Manufacturing Co., Crit.-Tib.~Critten­
den-Tibbals Manufacturing Co., Leet-C. D.
Leet, Peters-Peters Cartridge Co., Phoenix-
Phoenix Metallic Ctg. Co., Rem.-Reming-
ton Arms Co., UMC-Union Metallic Ctg.
Co., Un/on-Union Cap & Chemical Co.,
USCC-United States Ctg. Co., Win.-Win-
chester Ctg. Co., WCC-Western Ctg. Co.
Patented by S&W in 1860, the .22 Short
started the ball rolling and is still hold-
ing its own over a century later. Variants
of the .22 Short are most numerous and
8 9 10 11 12 include the .22 Govt Spl (1 ), .22s by
S&W (2) and Hall & Hubbard (3) plus the
cartridges shown at left: 4-Allen, 5-
A&W, 6-Phoenix, 7-Amer. Met., 8-
Montgomery Ward, 9-WCC, 10-WCC,
round ball; 11-12-Win., 13-14-UMC, 15-
UMC, explosive; 16-Rem., explosive;
17-18-Peters, 19-20-USCC, 21-Win.,
shot; 22-UMC, shot; 23-Win., blank;
19 20 21 22 23 24 24-United States Cartridge Co., blank.
was the technique used to "force" or spin 1'"'1
n I t1
the fulminating material away from the
center of the head and into the rim recess
only. For this purpose they included a
special tool in their patent.
"After the fulminate is thus pressed into
place it is ... permanently secured there 2 3 4
... by a wad . . . of paper, leather or other
suitable material . . . this wad may be
made with a hole through the middle of it,
nm an
which hole may be occupied by gun-
powder, and thus the fire from the
fulminating powder will be communicated
with greater surety to the gunpowder with
which the cartridge case is almost entirely
filled." 5 6 7 8 9
Though not patented until 1860, these The .22 Long tried to up .22 Short utility
rimfire cartridges were manufactured by by upping velocity. Still sold, Longs
Smith & Wesson for use with its No. 1, were never very popular. These are
tip-up revolvers and were sold along with by: 1-Amer. Met., 2-Montgomery Ward,
the guns beginning in November, 1857. 3-Sears & Roebuck, 4-WCC, 5-Win.,
Thus the first American rimfire cartridge 6-Win., variant bullet; 7-UMC, 8-UMC,
was born . Both gun and cartridge were dummy; and 9-U.S. Cartridge Co.
successful from the start, and the .22
rimfire is still the most popular cartridge
type in the world .
Made from thin copper, the early
rimfire cases made excellent gas checks.
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There were no openings in the cartridge,
as with earlier percussion ammunition,
and waterproofing became a matter of
simply crimping the mouth of the case
against the lubricated bullet. The rim of
these cartridges made extracting fired 2 3 4 5
cases a simple matter, and automatic
extraction was a natural extension of the
bre,e ch-opening mechanism. Most signifi-
cant of all, however, is that the rimfire
cartridge was a complete package. Load-
6 7 8 9 10
King of the rimfires, the .22 LR dates from
1887. It uses the long case and, originally, a
40-gr. bullet. Varities here include: 1-WCC,
B
2-"Lesmoke", 3-UMC, gallery; 4-UMC, ex-
plosive; 5-6-UMC, wadcutter; 7-UMC, mili-
tary issue, full-jacket; 8-UMC, dummy; 9-
Win., explosive; 10-Win., proof; 11-Win.,
tracer; 12-Peters, shot; 13-Amer. Met., shot;
14-UMC, shot. There are innumerable types. 11 12 13 14
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Companies tried special .25 and
6.5 mm rimfires including pistol
rounds by: 1-UMC, and 2-UMC blank,
and .267 Rem. by 3-Peters, 4- UMC,
and 5-UMC, tin-case proof load.
1 2 3 4
Stevens .25 rimfires were among
the most popular. Shown here are
shorts by: 1-UMC, and 2-Win., and
longs by, 3-Peters, and 4-USCC.
The shot cartridge, 5-, is by UMC.
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Fitted to many revolvers of the 1865-90
period, the .38 Short was also favored
for conversion of percussion revolvers.
Shown above are .38 Shorts by: 1-
USCC, 2-Win., 3-Peters, 4-Cril.-Tib.,
5-UMC, 6-Amer. Met., 7-Win., blank, and
8-UMC shot cartridge for the .38 Short.
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.30 caliber rimfires appeared in the 1860s.
Here we show: .30 Short Pistol by 1-Wm.
Irving, 2-USCC, 3-Phoenix, blank; and
.30 Long Pistol by 4-Win. and 5-USCC.
ing was now a single operation, and the
magazine-fed repeater became practicable.
Within 15 years after the S&W rimfire
patent, there were at least 30 different
rimfire cartridges being manufactured in
the U.S. From .22 cal. palm pistol to l"
Gatling gun, the rimfire became the
cartridge to use. The Ordnance Depart-
ment was quick to see their advantage,
and much rimfire ammunition was used
by the Union Army in the final battles of
5 the Civil War.
.22 Short - The first .22 shorts were
made according to the S&W patent and
had a paper wad to secure the fulminate in
the rim. Most early specimens had slightly
indented heads, apparently to prevent the
head from swelling and jamming revolver
cylinders. The .22 short has a 29-gr.
conical bullet and 4-gr. powder charge. In
over 100 years, many manufacturers have
made .22 short cartridges. More firearms
will "chamber the .22 short than any other
cartridge.
.22 BB Cap, CB Cap, and Government
Special - Three offshoots of the .22 short
have been manufactured, primarily for
gallery practice. These are the BB (bul-
leted breech) cap, the CB (conical bullet)
cap, and Government Special. The BB cap
has an average case length of 0.260", a 2-
gr. or 3-gr. powder charge, and a round or
almost round 20-gr. bullet. The CB cap
has a case length and powder charge
approximately equal to that of the BB cap
but uses a conical bullet like that of the .22
short. The Government Special was made
during World War I by Winchester, Union
Metallic Cartridge Co., and United States
Cartridge Co. to U.S. Government specifi-
cations for short-range target practice and
was not made after the war. It has a .22
short case with bullet similar to that of the
BB cap.
First a rifle cartridge, the .38 Long
Popular as a mid-range target loads, was used in pistols too. The samples
the extra-length .38s sold well until shown here are by: 1-Amer. Met., 2-
cenlerfires ended their reign. Here we Crit.-Tib., 3-Win., 4-Win., variant
illustrate: 1-.38 Long, and 2-.38 Exira- bullet; 5-Allen, 6-UMC, and 7-Amer.
Long, Ballard; and .38 Exira-Long Mel., multi-ball. No. 8 is the Amer. Mel.
cartridges made by 3-Win., and 4-USCC. shot container for the multi-ball round.
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The earliest .32s were Extra Shorts, by
5
1-2-Win., variant bullet types; and .32
Short cartridges made by 3-Peters, 4-
Win., explosive ball, and 5-Union, blank.
BB and CB caps lost much of their
popularity among American shooters
during the years that followed World War
II, and domestic production ceased.
Recently, however, CCI has introduced its
"Mini-Cap," a 29-gr. bullet loaded in both
.22 short and .22 long rifle cases to a
velocity equalling that of the former CB
cap.
.22 Long - It was soon apparent that
the .22 short's 4-gr. blackpowder charge
was not a substantial load. Consequently,
a cartridge was developed in 1871 with a
slightly longer case (0.61 ") to contain one
more grain of powder. The 29-gr. bullet of
the .22 short was retained, and a new
rimfire, the .22 long, came into existence.
Many pistols and revolvers, e.g., Colt Old
Line and Hopkins and Allen Blue Jacket
No. I Yi, were chambered for this round in
the 1870s and 1880s.
.22 Long Rifle - The .22 long satisfied
pistol shooters, but its short bullet was
unstable over longer rifle ranges. There-
fore, in 1887, an elongated 40-gr. bullet
was designed to go with the .22 long case
and 5-gr. charge of blackpowder. This
cartridge, called .22 long rifle, scored well
at ranges up to 200 yds. and has since
become the most popular round in the
world. Although originally designed for
rifle use, many target pistols have been
chambered for this cartridge.
.22 Extra Long - Predating the .22
long rifle cartridge by almost a decade, the
.22 extra long was originally designed for
long-range target shooting and used an
.78" case containing 6 grs. of blackpowder
and 40-gr. bullet. It achieved some success
with Stevens and Winchester single-shot
rifles, but fell from popularity because of
the superior ballistics of the .22 long rifle.
.22 Winchester Rim Fire - In 1890
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Winchester introduced a special cartridge
for its Model 1890 cal. .22 slide-action
repeating rifle. It was designated .22 WRF
(Winchester Rimfire) and used a 45-gr.
inside-lubricated bullet and a 7-gr. charge
of blackpowder. Stevens chambered sev-
eral Ideal single-shot rifles for this
cartridge. beginning with the No. 44
introduced in 1894. Remington followed
with the Model 12 repeater and Model 16
autoloader. Although the Model 1890
Winchester became the most popular
slide-action rifle in the world, the special
rimfire cartridge produced for it offered
little competition for the .22 long rifle.
.22 Winchester Automatic - Winches-
ter introduced its .22 automatic rifle in
1903 and with it another new cartridge,
the .22 Winchester Automatic. This round
used the same inside-lubricated 45 gr.
bullet as the .22 WRF but with the then
new smokeless powder propellant. Re-
mington subsequently chambered the
Model 16 rifle for an almost identical
round, the .22 Remington Automatic.
The first smokeless powders and prim-
ing mixtures were highly corrosive, and
this coupled with the fact that these new
cartridges were less powerful than the .22
long rifle caused their early demise.
Stinger, Xpediter, and Yellow Jacket -
These enhanced-velocity .22s were intro-
duced by CCI, Winchester, and Reming-
ton, respectively, in the late 1970s. Each
cartridge delivers improved performance
and velocity - as compared to the high
velocity, .22 long rifle - at least partly
through improved bullet shape and
generally lighter bullets. All three are
excellent for small game hunting and pest
control.
.22 Winchester Magnum Rimfire -
The most powerful of the .22 rimfires is
the .22 Winchester Magnum Rimfire (.22
6 7 8 9 10
WMR), introduced in 1959. This cartridge
uses a 40-gr. copper-jacketed bullet in a I"
case. It is used in both rifles and pistols,
and has become popular. At 100 yds. the
energy of the .22 WMR is twice that of the
.22 long rifle, making it an effective
varmint cartridge.
.25 Pistol - The No. 25 pistol cartridge
was made during the early 1860s for
pistols and revolvers produced by such
manufacturers as Bliss & Goodyear, Gross
Arms Co., and Bacon Manufacturing Co.
Cartridges were produced by Crittenden &
Tibbals, Ethan Allen, U .M.C., and Win-
chester. The round used a 38-43-gr. bullet
with 5-gr. charge of blackpowder. It was
the first but rather unsuccessful attempt to
go beyond the .22 and was soon super-
seded by larger, more potent rimfires.
.25 Stevens Long - Around the turn of
the century the J. Stevens Arms Co.
chambered several rifles (e.g., New Model
Pocket or Bicycle Rifle and Sporting Rifle
No. 2) for a cal. .25 rimfire cartridge
especially developed for them by Peters.
This round, the .25 Stevens long, used a
65-gr. inside-lubricated bullet and I I-gr.
charge of blackpowder.
During the first four decades of this
century the .25 Stevens retained a reputa-
tion as an excellent small game load.
Eclipsed nonetheless by light center-fire
cartridges, its popularity declined. Discon-
tinued by U.S. manufacturers in 1942, the
cartridge was not revived after the war.
.25 Stevens Short - A short version of
the .25 Stevens cartridge was introduced a
few years after the long. This cartridge
used the same 65-gr. bullet as the long but
with a lighter 411-gr. powder charge. It
was developed as a short-range rifle load
but was much underpowered and never
became popular.
.267 Remington - The .267 Remington
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.41 rimfire cartridges were primarily used in self-defense arms; Shorts in derringers,
Longs in revolvers. Our sample includes Shorts by: 1-UMC, 2-UMC, for Philip J. Medi-
cus; 3-USCC, 4-WCC, and 5-UMC, blank. Longs are: 6-Phoenix, 7-Win., and 8-USCC.
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From 1861 until rising costs spelled
their end after World War II, long-
case .32s came and went. At left we
illustrate: .32 Longs by 1-Wm. Irving,
dished base, 2-A&W, dished base, 3-
WCC, 4-UMC, explosive, 5-Amer. Met.,
shot, 6-UMC, shot; 7-.32 Long Rifle
from UMC; 8-.32 Extra Long by
UMC, 9-UMC, shot, and 10-Ethan
Allen's short-lived .35 Allen Rifle.
was the result of Remington experiments
in the late 1930s to produce an inexpensive
small game '}nd varmint cartridge with
better ballistics than the .22 long rifle and
better killing power than the .25 Stevens.
The work was interrupted by World War
II and was never resumed. There are
several extremely rare cal. .25 bottle-
necked rimfires which are part of the same
series of Remington experiments.
5 mm Remington Magnum - Possibly
the only tangible result of Remington's
experiments with bottleneck rimfires, the
5 mm Remington Magnum was intro-
duced in 1969 as the companion cartridge
for that company's Model 591 and 592
rimfire rifles. Propelling a 38-gr. Power-
Lokt hollowpoint bullet at 2105 f. p.s., the
5 mm Mag. promised to be the equal of
the .22 WMR and an effective small game
cartridge. It was not successful in the
marketplace. Though the cartridge is still
cataloged, the rifles were discontinued in
1974.
.30 Pistol - Many early pistol and
revolver manufacturers chambered arms
for the No. 30 pistol. This cartridge occurs
in long and short versions with 45- to 60-
gr. bullets and 9-gr. charge of blackpow-
der for the long and 6-gr. charge for the
short. It achieved considerable success, if
the number of guns chambered for it is
any criterion.
.32 Protector - The smallest of the .32
rimfires is the extra short or Protector.
Introduced in 1871 for the Remington-
Rider magazine pistol, it was also used in
the 1880s and 90s in the palm or
"Protector" pistols manufactured by
Ames Sword Co. (sold by Chicago Fire
Arms Co.) and Minneapolis Fire Arms
Co. These were compact little defensive
arms. The round (as produced by Win-
continued on p. 81
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continued from p. 51
chester) used a 55-gr. bullet with 6-gr.
charge of blackpowder.
.32 Short - The .32 short was deve-
loped as a pistol cartridge in the early
1870s and became extremely popular. At
least a dozen ammunition makers loaded
the .32 short with a 9-gr. charge of black-
powder and bullets ranging from 75 to 85
grs.
.32 Long - Only the .22 short has a
longer history than the .32 long. Intro-
duced by Smith & Wesson in 1861 for its
No. 2 Pistol, it survived here for over a
century. Practically every rimfire pistol
manufacturer chambered arms for the .32
long, and it became a popular sporting
load for long arms. Such companies as
Ethan Allen, Bullard, Forehand, Folks,
Wesson, and Whitney produced rifles or
carbines chambered for the .32 long; and
almost every early Stevens single-shot arm
could be .purchased in this caliber. At least
15 different ammunition manufacturers
loaded it using a 13-gr. charge of black-
powder and a bullet weighing approxi-
mately 90 grs.
.32 Long Rifle - The .32 long rifle
cartridge is essentially a .32 long with
inside-lubricated bullet and and extended
case to contain the lubricant. The powder
charge was the same as that of the .32
long, but its 82-gr. bullet was slightly
undersize (less than bore diameter) and
had a hollow base. The bullet was
designed to expand into the rifling at the
moment of discharge very much like a
Minie ball. These cartridges appeared on
the Union Metallic Cartridge Co. (UMC)
and Winchester lists just after the turn of
the century but survived for only a short
time. This round had little or no superior-
ity over the old .32 long and, due to the
extra case length, was not interchangeable
with same. Stevens chambered some
Favorite rifles for this round, but few
others did.
.32 Extra Long - Last and longest of
the .32s is the .32 extra long, introduced in
1866 to extend the range of some of the
sporting rifles of that period. Remington
chambered the No. I rifle for this round as
did Ballard their No. 2. The .32 extra long
was loaded with 20 grs. of blackpowder
and a 90-gr. bullet.
.35 Allen Rifle - Only one cal. .35
rimfire cartridge was ever produced in the
United States; a special round manufac-
tured in the early 1860s by Ethan Allen for
the Allen falling-breech, single shot rifle.
Gun and the cartridge were made for only
a short time, and both are rare today. The
bullet style is typical of Ethan Allen
manufacture.
.38 Short and Long - The .38 short
was loaded with 15 to 18 grs. of black-
powder and a 120- to 130-gr. bullet. The
.38 long used 18 to 21 grs. of blackpowder
and a 120- to 150'-gr. bullet. Both
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cartridges were introduced about 1860,
and from then until the end of the rimfire
era were used in practically every revolver
and single-shot rifle made .
.38 Ballard - A few years ago a most
unusual box of cal. .38 rimfire cartridges
was discovered; the label reads "50, 38-100
Rifle Cartridges, Ballard Rifle, Manufac-
tured by H. W. Mason, New York." These
cartridges have a I" case and distinctive
Ballard bullet and are unlike any other .38
rimfire known. The Ballard rifle for which
these cartridges were made is unknown.
Ballard produced three sporting rifles
chambered for .38 long rimfire cartridges:
Models 1861, 1864 and 1876. Considering
the primitive aspect of the Mason speci-
mens and the fact that the more common
.38 long (Ys" case) was already a well
established standard by 1864, it is my
opinion that these unusual cartridges were
made for the Model 1861 Ballard, possibly
the very first pieces issued.
To further complicate the situation, a
still different longer cased (I Ys") round has TRIUS PORTABLE TRAP
appeared. In every aspect, except case Easier Cocking. Adjustable.
length, this cartridge is identical to the .38 Throws Singles, Doubles. With
Mason Ballard and may have been Can Thrower. Hi-Angle Clip, &
Ground Anchor. American·
manufactured by Mason. This cartridge
was probably used in the earliest Model
1861 Ballard sporting rifle .
.38 Extra Long - In the early 1870s the
last of the .38 rimfires appeared on the
market - the .38 extra long. This
cartridge was made for the Wesson
Midrange and Sporting Rifle No. I, the
Remington Short Range Rifle No. I and
several other sporting and target rifles.
The round was loaded with 31 to 38 grs. of
blackpowder and 140- to 150-gr. bullet. It
was considered a rather powerful cartridge
until the advent of the center-fires. Learn Gunsmithing
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