It's a bolt action rifle, it should handle cb shorts, shorts, longs, and long rifle. I said it should, but Savage might not have made the magazine capable of handeling all .22 cartridges. So if they did not, then you could still load them one at a time.
You can shoot shorts but u will have to do it by hand. I would not shoot many without cleaning the barrel. Shorts will leave a burn mark or a white ring in the chamber and it will be difficult to load a LR in it. Cliff
Not sure what you're trying to achieve using shorts, but if you want a cartridge with a bit less oomph that will feed properly you might consider .22lr subsonics.
Pretty sure both Remington & Winchester make the .22lr subsonics. There's also the CCI .22 CB Cap Long to consider - they'd probably feed better than shorts. I've manually fed & extracted the .22 CB Longs in a 10/22, and they work fine.
No pic there but I think Marlin makes the same basic rifle but it can be had with tube feed. Handles shorts well. I've handled both. They run around $225 now but were under 200 before this price gouging period.
I see it's Ripe but I am still going to make a comment!!
Yesterday, I ordered a Savage Mark II fv-sr to complement my new silencer, I am looking forward to shooting some shorts through it. I live in a subdivision and I plan on a little very quiet squirrel hunting in my back yard with the shorts.
I have shot them quite a bit. You have to be very careful about shooting them in a rifle, the first time I fired one, the bullet stuck about half way down the barrel. I like shooting them in my NAA mini-revolver, as I have mentioned before, you can watch them go, all the way from the barrel to the target.
I haven't seen longs in a long time but I do have a couple boxes of shorts, what I have always called CB mini caps.
I only shot about half a dozen more in the rifle that day and had to push at least two more out. When I am able to get my silencer out to the range, I am going to try at least one through the Ruger 22/45.
A short through a suppressor ought to be as silent as it gets. Probably wouldn't cause a blip on a dB meter at two feet.
Rounds marked 'Colibri' are supposed to be primer only and are usually marked for use "only in handguns" due to possibility of a round lodging in a rifle barrel. CB Caps do have a minimal charge of powder to insure the bullet exits.
Rounds marked 'Colibri' are supposed to be primer only and are usually marked for use "only in handguns" due to possibility of a round lodging in a rifle barrel. CB Caps do have a minimal charge of powder to insure the bullet exits.
The Colibri that I have do not say that, I have had them since they first came out and before that warning. I have read that they started putting that warning on them later on because of the problems with rifles. I am actually working on my very last box of them!
I'd guess "no" but it'd be a guess - based upon the clip feed. Clips allow bullets to slide forward & such may cause jamming. I recently bought a Henry cuz I wanted to shoot shorts after a year of not being able to find a tube fed bolt action. The Henry duz fine! Sounds about like a BB gun with shorts & groups under 1" @ 25 yds. LRs group about 3" higher than the shorts.
I picked up the Savage Mark II fv-sr this past Friday. I got the FV-SR model because I wanted the threaded barrel for my new-ish suppressor. After Church today I fired a few shorts through it. This rifle fed the shorts from the magazine perfectly with only one hitch when I worked the bolt very slow! I got to tell you that the shorts are so quiet, with the suppressor, that the only thing you can hear is the firing pin hitting the case.
In any .22lr that is marked as such,one can shoot shorts in maybe single rounds, clips or tubular magazines. The problem is when you try to load .22LR'S , they may not load. This is because the chamber of that gun because of shooting the shorts has a white ring in it (leaded up)which prevents the LR from chambering. Which will cause a lot of scrubbing to get the lead out of the chamber. Good luck!
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