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Digging around in the basement of this old house I bought and found a box of "Remington UMC" brand .22 Special cartridges. OLD,VERY OLD..!! Copper Cases and RNL bullets,looks to be about 40gr in size.
I read how these would chamber in a .22 Mag,but would question sanity of chambering something this old in my M77 and seeing if it blows up. I was wondering if there's a rimfireBUFF out there who is looking for something of this vintage.I have certainly never seen a rifle that fires these,not even in another's collection...... If someone is interested, virgillloydyahoo.com and I'll send a pic of the antique stuff.I certainly won't go chambering these and trying them out. The looks of the box alone is something older than anything my 67 years has seen. I would like to see what the rifle looks like if anyone owns one that uses this ammo...

It's the same as a .22 WRF from Winchester.

A photo of the box and rounds would help us determine the approximate age.

That.

I'm still shooting a 1890 Winchester chambered for .22 WRF. Grandfather's first gun, vintage 1910.

Forty-five grain bullet at about 1450 FPS, just Remington's name for a .22 Winchester Rim Fire (WRF).

The box and cartridges would make a neat display on a back bar or shelf.

Not too familiar with this site....How do I attach a PIC... I do have pics thatshow the bullets and box....VERY OLD has "Remington UMC " as brand and in a box type I haven't seen since I was a KID.

Bet that's a cool little rifle..!

Cool idea.. I do have Knife displays and such to put with it...Harley collectible knife sets and such.. May try to figure out how to make it look good... Age of it would lend to the effect.

Seems to be the consensus... If I can figure out how to put a pic of it on this site,I did one pic showing the LR,Spec,and Mag in one pic with the special between the two, and the odd looking bullet shaped like old cowboy loads used to be.. The bullets almost appear to be semi-FP made from round nosed lead.

Love your PHOTO...my favorite person.

4th from right:

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That is ONE BEAUTIFUL piece.!! Love the barrel length. They really made nice stuff back in those days.... Stamped-out in Japan or Portugal these days. Figure out a way to get my 19 rounds to you or else trade me some .22 Lr's and you can have a box of ammo atleast as oldas this gun. even have Copper Casings,and RNL Bullets.!
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YEP... except mine are Copper-Cased with RNL bullets. Label says .22 Remington Special Smokeless on the box top and UMC insignias on the sides. Different looking.

My dad has an old Winchester bolt in. 22 WRF. He got it somewhere when he was young and the rifle had some years on it then. Ammo was hard to find pre-internet, but not so much now. Even the new boxes are "retro" just fyi.

Appreciate the offer but I have thousands of WRF rounds and some are like what you describe albeit in W-W boxes. Aside from that, I'm unloading antique ammo at every opportunity these days.

Let me know when you get ready to "unload" the rifle in the pic...

Sorry, cold dead hands and all that....key word above "ammo".

Dan Re: the third cartridge from the left. Maybe I'm confused but by case length it appears to be a Long but the bullet is too large(big?) All the Longs I shot had 29gr bullets just as the Short. Or did the Stinger have a longer case?

What is the cartridge on the far right?