Lightweight
The Lightweight category of cartridges include small caliber (.17 .20 .22 .243 or 6mm ) pushing lightweight projectiles. Their use include recreational shooting and training, varmint hunting, small game, and even limited deer and pronghorn hunting. Recoil of most chamberings in most rifles can be expected to be very light and manageable by most anyone.
22 Hornet
As a kid in my late single digits, I was fortunate enough to have contact with adults who liked to shoot high-powered rifles. Around 1950, most of the time this meant military rifles that were either original or close to original, or those that
222 Remington
The absolutely superb 222 Remington would still be around in full force today if the 223 hadn't showed up. It has been said that Remington's Merle (Mike) Walker got the idea for the 222 by imagining a scaled-down 30-06. Before the 222 arrived in
222 Remington Magnum
The 222 Remington Magnum is a much better cartridge for bolt action rifles than the 223 Remington. The 223 was essentially a development of the 222 Rem Mag that would function more reliably in full- and semi-automatic military rifles. The longer neck of the 222 Rem Mag was a bit of a hangup, but for the accuracy buff it is
219 Donaldson Wasp
Even the name of this wildcat cartridge is suspect. The 219 Zipper was introduced by Winchester in 1937, chambered in their somewhat re-engineered Model 94, designated the
225 Winchester
In 1964, Winchester disappointed long-time fans of the Model 70 by introducing a complete redesign of the rifle; an act that also created an instant market for elevated prices on what became known as "pre-64 Model 70s." That market is still quite
22-250 Remington
The parent case for the 22-250, the 250-3000 Savage — generally known today as the 250 Savage — was introduced in 1915. Some years later, especially in the 1930s, various cartridge experimenters were messing around with the 250 in efforts to
220 Swift
My first 220 Swift was a used, late-1950's production Winchester Model 70 Varmint Rifle. After awhile, I discovered that it wasn't going to get much better than when I started insofar as accuracy was concerned, at least not
6X47MM
I dislike having to be fussy. Regular bench rest competitors tend to be fussy, and I guess that's the main reason I hung it up so many years ago. I dislike direct comparisons between people. If they're doing the best they can, then that's one hell of an achievement. Most people don't do
6MM BR (BENCH REST)
There is a lot of hoped for or imagined history related to the 22 BR and 6 BR cartridges. The short reality is somewhat different. At the time of the 22 PPC and 6mm PPC being developed by Ferris Pindell and Dr. Louis Palmisano (thus the PP), the bench rest winners were
6MM Remington
Most shooters today probably have no idea of who either Warren page or Fred Huntington were. We will go into that at another time in a different chapter, but for now it's enough to know that these two fellows had more to do with popularizing cartridges using .243-inch-diameter bullets than