Austrian AM180 22 FA

[browningautorifle]

303AC

I had one in Gagetown and still have 100 links to feed it with. It was a DP but I had no choice but to shoot it MYSELF, so if it exploded no one else would be killed...sure ran nice. Only had one separation with it and the rest went through in two fifty rd bursts.

[Peter Laidler]

In Malaya we used live tethered goats so show the lethality of our new AR15's to the new jungle warfare instructors going up to SVN. I mentioned this to one of my (now retired) bosses at Warminster and, lo and behold, he was one of those doing the demonstrations! I don't know what we were really expecting but the scrawny old goats just exploded. If they were penned in behind brushwood pens it took a few bursts to break through but after that............ Goodnight nurse!

[browningautorifle]

the scrawny old goats just exploded.

Picture doing a demo like that now? You'd be front page news...

[Bruce_in_Oz]

Re: that "special" RF cartridge.

It sounds like somebody breathed a bit of life back into the old Winchester .22 WRF. This looks like a "short" .22 RF magnum, and was designed for a series of early Winchester semi-auto, riimfire rifles. It was loaded with smokeless powder and was a bit "hotter" than the limp BP-loaded .22 short and long then in wide circulation.

This "fatter" case was used so that these "modern" rounds could not be fed through firearms that were probably too fragile to handle it. This "new" case was also later "stretched" to give us the .22 RF Magnum.

Anyone got data or pix of the Austrian ammo for the AM-180?

Another thought is that the AM-180 designers may have had "military" applications in mind, and thus, figured that they needed a round with a jacketed bullet. (Not unlike a short version of the common .22RF Magnum "full jacket" stuff). This could not be done in a round constructed like the traditional .22RF.

[browningautorifle]

.22RF Magnum "full jacket" stuff)

That would be a different gun, for sure...