I think a few words are in order
regarding my previous post about CCI .22 WRF ammunition. I most certainly did not mean that as a criticism of CCI - as far as I am concerned, CCI makes the best .22 ammo to be had in this or any other country. Nor was it meant as a criticism of them for placing that warning on the .22 WRF boxes. The reason for the post in the first place was that I found out an obscure bit of information that I thought interesting, and wanted to pass it on to anyone else who might have a question about using this ammo in .22 Magnum revolvers.
Apparently a couple of folks here thought I was lambasting CCI for putting that warning on the boxes in the first place. No such thing. I certainly understand why they did it, but with no other information at hand it raised a question in my mind, which, by the way, the folks at CCI answered quickly and cheerfully.
This subject might not be of any great inport to some folks, but I've found the .22 WRF to be one of the sweetest shooting and most effective of small-bore handgun rounds.
Keith thought the .22 WRF better than the .22 LR IIRC.
by Hobie 
, Shenandoah Valley of Virginia, Saturday, January 21, 2012, 11:53 (4638 days ago) @ Catoosa
I do.
I wasn't aware that the early .22 WRF guns, any of them, had smaller than .224" barrels. Indeed, I thought that is why the .22 WRM had .224" barrels rather than the slightly smaller .22 LR barrel dimensions. I fail to see how the firing of one in the other would be a problem and found the discussion interesting.
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Sincerely,
Hobie
2¢ & Change
No offense meant (and none taken), but the original post failed to place CCI's warning in its proper context. Next, the "manufacturers and experts" were castigated for their apparent stupidity. This just seemed wrong to me, and in fact still does.
CCI was right from the get-go. Since the issue concerned safety, I thought it was important that someone explain why.
As for the Q&A I posed on using .22 WRF ammunition in .22 WRM revolvers, suffice to say that both were much like the practice itself: Purely rhetorical. 
Good shooting!
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One more thing...
I'm just glad no one mentioned shooting .45 S&W in a .45 Long Colt...
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One more thing...
Well then, I will mention:
Shooting .22 long and short in .22 LR chambers;
Shooting .32 S&W, .32 S&W Long in .32 Magnum chambers (and all 3 of those in .327 chambers);
Shooting .38 Special in .357 Magnum chambers;
Shooting .44 Russian in .44 Special chambers and both those in .44 Magnums
Oh yeah, I forgot - .22 CB caps!
This one will really get your goat, FOG - I once ran out of shells at a dove shoot and loaded my Dad's 16 gauge A.H. Fox double with 28 gauge shells borrowed from my uncle and "sleeved" with empty 16 gauge hulls with the heads cut off.
Killed a dove with one of them, too.
One more thing...
What can I tell you?...
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