22 LR Velocitor and send it out of an 18.5-inch barreled Henry Classic lever-action, you’ll achieve a muzzle velocity of around 1,370 fps. 22 Magnum hunting revolver … that’s a different story. 22 Magnum revolver is likely beatable by even the humble.
22 Magnum.īack in the day, Winchester stated the magnum was better out of a handgun than any other. Ammo choice matters when targeting small game with the. But what does the cartridge-gun combination bring to the table when it comes to putting meat there? As it turns out, a lot. 22 Magnum revolvers are lookers, which never hurts.
22 Magnum) has fascinated rimfire shooters. 22 Magnum revolvers might be the ideal rimfire for small game handgun hunting. The rear faces/edges of the different model's cylinders are machined differently, also.Accurate and powerful. The newer/stainless cylinders are much longer than the earlier gun's, and ergo, it's barrel barely pokesw through the front of the cylinder frame while the older gun's barrel extends over 1/4" into the cylinder window, with that cylinder accordingly shorter. 22 mag cylinders are NOT interchangeable between the revolvers. The two different generation revolver's cylinders, AND the amount that the barrel throat protrudes through the frame into the cylinder opening, is vastly different - and the. 22 Mag is slightly more accurate than the newer stainless gun, in either caliber - but that may be a result of the newer gun's sights color being the same color as the rest of the gun, and being lost during firing/aiming. The LR cylinder ( which is the primary cylinder that the barrel is marked for) is slightly more accurate in my dual-cylinder gun - see the left target, above. The other is a new stainless 4" Target Pathfinder Dual Cylinder.