Is anyone shooting an original SS in .22 Short these days?  If so, what ammunition are you using?  What results are you getting?  And at what range?   

I've been messing about with a couple of Winders and a Winchester 74 gallery rifle off the bench for a couple of years.  The results are less than marvelous and seem to be more dismal with newer ammo.

Mr. Waterman,

I've had very good luck with the CCI 22 Short ammo at 50 and 75 feet, I like shooting gallery and 22 Short is an extreamly accurate caliber at short ranges. All the old Zettler Brothers records were set with a 22 Short at 75 feet, at the turn of the last century offhand gallery shooting was big business and it's still a good way to improve your offhand ability. 

Bob

I shoot an original Winchester Low Wall chambered for .22 short, and also a Ballard schuetzen rifle that was rebarreled with a Winchester .22 short barrel. Both are being fired with CCI CB Short sub sonic .22 Short ammo. 
Oviously I don't shoot 100 yds. with this ammo, but at 50 ft. indoor ranges it does perform really well. I have used it outdoors at 50 yds. and it does well at that distance too.

Paul F.,
Your correct, most of the "good" Match Grade 22 Short Ammo is/was used by the 
Olympic Rapid Fire Pistol Shooters. 

Your also correct in that most of us old time washed up Olympic Pistol Shooters are just about extinct,  however I still have my Rapid Fire Pistol, and more than a few thousand rounds of 22 Short Match ammo, have Eley Green Box Rapid Fire Match, RWS  Red Box R-25 Match, and a bunch of Fiocchi Gold Box Match and Black Box Practice. All of this ammo is extremely accurate at 25 yards/meters  in a good handgun such as my Hammerli Model 232.  I often wondered how good the ammo would shoot in a good Rifle chambered and rifled for 22 Shorts, I did try some in a long rifle chamber just for kicks but of course the rifling twist was wrong and it didn't work out to well.

I can no longer shoot the Handgun events and don't have a Rifle to shoot shorts so I guess one of these days the ammo and gun will have to go.
   Shooter

Gentlemen,

I have been using a Maynard Gallery rifle in .22 Short for several years for a "varmint" rifle around the homestead. I shoot the CCI High Vel Hollowpoints and can assure you that it will kill a feral tomcat out to 50 yards much cleaner than any of the .22 Long Rifles I've used. I've noticed the same thing on gophers and 'chucks...I don't know exactly why, but I think that the short hollowpoint bullet goes unstable as soon as it hits anything. The bullet will not completely penetrate even the small ground squirrels...just rolls them over dead. Keith Kilby and I did a gopher hunt down around Encampment and we both noticed the same thing concerning the killing effect of the .22 Short. I like the round and intend to make up a new rifle for the cartridge.

I think that too many people don't consider the .22 Short adequate for anything but they are selling the little cartridge "short". 

Sorry about that...

Steve

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Don't tell anyone, but we still shoot Bullseye pistol matches in a fall league every year. Seems to still be hanging on here in the Pacific NW. I stopped due to bad shoulders, but there are a lot of clubs in the Willamette Valley that still compete together.-Vall

What constitutes a reasonable test of several different kinds of .22 short ammo?  I tried shooting the CCI Target stuff at 100 yards off the bench & sandbags, but I could use a yardstick to measure group size.   

In times past, they used to shoot the .22 Short at 100 & even 200 yards.  And those were BP and Lesmok loads.  But maybe with 40 grain bullets.