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Offline Myster

.22 Calibre Long Rifle Hollow-point ammunition
« on: April 30, 2023, 02:23:32 PM »
I was recently given a .22 LR Hollow-point rimfire round made by CCI in the USA to examine and photograph, by an acquaintance who regularly keeps vermin, rabbits and pigeons under control at a nearby farm, and was surprised how something so small could do so much damage to animal (including human) tissue and organs.  They are very similar, almost identical in size, shape, primer and propellant to .22 rounds made by other manufacturers including Eley of the UK (the ammunition used in the WHF murders).  Some photos attached below, including an empty, used brass shell casing showing a rectangular indent on the flange rim caused by the spring-loaded firing pin of the rifle, and two low power .22 lead air rifle pellets to compare their size.

CCI website... https://www.cci-ammunition.com/rimfire/cci/sub-sonic_hp/6-56.html

Eley website... https://eley.co.uk/eley-subsonic-hollow/

For anyone interested in their manufacture, a CCI factory tour in Idaho, USA here...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_rCZHG_eEak

A more laid-back, quieter tour of a different .22 manufacturer here...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5MyYpM56Eo8
It's one of them cases, in'it... one of them f*ckin' cases.

Offline Caroline

Re: .22 Calibre Long Rifle Hollow-point ammunition
« Reply #1 on: June 19, 2023, 02:37:00 PM »
I was recently given a .22 LR Hollow-point rimfire round made by CCI in the USA to examine and photograph, by an acquaintance who regularly keeps vermin, rabbits and pigeons under control at a nearby farm, and was surprised how something so small could do so much damage to animal (including human) tissue and organs.  They are very similar, almost identical in size, shape, primer and propellant to .22 rounds made by other manufacturers including Eley of the UK (the ammunition used in the WHF murders).  Some photos attached below, including an empty, used brass shell casing showing a rectangular indent on the flange rim caused by the spring-loaded firing pin of the rifle, and two low power .22 lead air rifle pellets to compare their size.

CCI website... https://www.cci-ammunition.com/rimfire/cci/sub-sonic_hp/6-56.html

Eley website... https://eley.co.uk/eley-subsonic-hollow/

For anyone interested in their manufacture, a CCI factory tour in Idaho, USA here...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_rCZHG_eEak

A more laid-back, quieter tour of a different .22 manufacturer here...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5MyYpM56Eo8

I think they look pretty big  &%%6

Offline Myster

Re: .22 Calibre Long Rifle Hollow-point ammunition
« Reply #2 on: June 19, 2023, 06:28:21 PM »
I think they look pretty big  &%%6
Not as big as they appear to be on a computer screen (very deceptive), and surprisingly tiny and delicate, for want of a better word, when rolled between thumb and fingertips.  And also if you're unfamiliar, as Sheila C. was, with loading ten into a magazine, very fiddly to get them in the right orientation and inserted quickly when under pressure to kill your family, all whilst in a psychotic rage. Jeremy Bamber would have known how to do this without fail and with eyes shut, no doubt about it. I see the blind and deluded Samson is still stamping his feet on 'International Skeptics' desperately wanting Sheila to be the assailant... very sad.

I posted this before, but even an experienced shooter who hadn't used his Anschutz 525 for a while took a couple of goes fitting the magazine and chambering the first round correctly.  Still not figured out why his mag only takes eight rounds at a time though when afaiaa they were made to hold ten for that model, so might question him again sometime.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3XrYzDBwduM

Another concern in the first manufacturing video at CCI, was how much toxic lead (a roomful of large ingots - https://youtu.be/_rCZHG_eEak?t=421) is consumed every day.  Imagine the tons used every year since the factory opened in 1951, and not just there but by all bullet manufacturers in the States and others throughout the world, such as Eley, and lost unrecovered to the environment by plinksters, amateur target-shooters and pro varmint-hunters alike.
It's one of them cases, in'it... one of them f*ckin' cases.

Offline Myster

Re: .22 Calibre Long Rifle Hollow-point ammunition
« Reply #3 on: June 19, 2023, 07:35:06 PM »
A recently uploaded tour of a Remington .22 rimfire facility... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUe-aHxN8ck
It's one of them cases, in'it... one of them f*ckin' cases.

Offline APRIL

Re: .22 Calibre Long Rifle Hollow-point ammunition
« Reply #4 on: June 22, 2023, 12:14:09 PM »
Not as big as they appear to be on a computer screen (very deceptive), and surprisingly tiny and delicate, for want of a better word, when rolled between thumb and fingertips.  And also if you're unfamiliar, as Sheila C. was, with loading ten into a magazine, very fiddly to get them in the right orientation and inserted quickly when under pressure to kill your family, all whilst in a psychotic rage. Jeremy Bamber would have known how to do this without fail and with eyes shut, no doubt about it. I see the blind and deluded Samson is still stamping his feet on 'International Skeptics' desperately wanting Sheila to be the assailant... very sad.

I posted this before, but even an experienced shooter who hadn't used his Anschutz 525 for a while took a couple of goes fitting the magazine and chambering the first round correctly.  Still not figured out why his mag only takes eight rounds at a time though when afaiaa they were made to hold ten for that model, so might question him again sometime.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3XrYzDBwduM

Another concern in the first manufacturing video at CCI, was how much toxic lead (a roomful of large ingots - https://youtu.be/_rCZHG_eEak?t=421) is consumed every day.  Imagine the tons used every year since the factory opened in 1951, and not just there but by all bullet manufacturers in the States and others throughout the world, such as Eley, and lost unrecovered to the environment by plinksters, amateur target-shooters and pro varmint-hunters alike.


To say nothing of what loading would have done to her long and elegantly manicured nails. 'Coarse, she could have manicured them after she'd killed the family. Might explain why she had to wait a couple of hours before despatching herself. &^^&*

Offline Myster

Re: .22 Calibre Long Rifle Hollow-point ammunition
« Reply #5 on: June 22, 2023, 05:19:28 PM »

To say nothing of what loading would have done to her long and elegantly manicured nails. 'Coarse, she could have manicured them after she'd killed the family. Might explain why she had to wait a couple of hours before despatching herself. &^^&*
Not just loading, but firing 15 more rounds (assuming the mag already contained 10) and beating her father senseless so violently that the stock shattered across the trigger guard and beyond...
It's one of them cases, in'it... one of them f*ckin' cases.

Offline APRIL

Re: .22 Calibre Long Rifle Hollow-point ammunition
« Reply #6 on: June 23, 2023, 12:04:01 PM »
Not just loading, but firing 15 more rounds (assuming the mag already contained 10) and beating her father senseless so violently that the stock shattered across the trigger guard and beyond...


Yeh! No trouble! Wonder Woman by any other name...........ie Sheila!!!