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Fred, 

Are you thinking of the 22 Maynard Extra Long Centerfire cartridge? If so, from my tinkering, it's more like a reloadable 22 Win Mag. 

5.75 Velo-Dog?  Could be - the round was centerfire

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I sure hope the Fiocchi copper clad heads shot better than some copper clads that were given to me through the 'back door' of a current ammo manufacturer! 

Very nice box John Boy.
As to them being for the 5.75 Velo-Dog, I really don't know but I believe that the Velo-Dog used a flat base no heel inside lubed bullet, these are no different than the standard heeled HB outside lubed bullet that you will find in standard 22 RF ammo.

John Boy,
I never said that there had to be Palma Matches for the 22 RF.  What I said was I "thought" the word 'Palma' on the box was for a 22 RF match because like you I have a few box's  of Rem 22 Match Ammo called "Palma Match",  and I was thinking that "maybe" there was a Palma Match event for the 22 RF.

I have no idea if there was or wasn't and if there was I have no idea when it started.

I am up loading some better photos of the base and side of the bullet.
  Regards
   H. M. Pope

John Boy,

Nothing against European cartridges, as I have a few stashed here and there, but I'm sorta partial to the American versions.    

Hi Guys,
I used to be partial to the American 22 Ammo but now a days it's a lot easier to be in the top 10  if you use the European 22 Ammo, sorry to say that the good European match ammo just shoots much better than any American made 22 Ammo in all of my rifles. Better groups = higher scores.

In this day and age what is the purpose of loading your own 22 RF ammo ?.  It seems like a lot of work, trouble,  and cost loading your own, is there any primed match brass cases available ? are there certain events that this ammo is shot in ?. 
Has  anyone gotten it to shoot better or as good as Eley 10-X, Lapua, RWS R-100 ?. 

Or is it all just a fun thing to do ?. and if so just how accurate has anyone gotten it to shoot ?

I know, a lot of questions,  but my main interest in shooting is accuracy, and in most all of the events I shoot in you are required to use factory loaded 22 RF ammo, you cant even change the lube in some of the events, you have to shoot it as it comes out of the box. 
  Regards
   H. M. Pope

Hi Frank,
That's a very, very, nice group your showing, if that group is average I'm sure it's as good as any of the European 22 Ammo I've seen shot.

But I don't think you can use it in ASSRA events, please correct me if I'm wrong but I think I read somewhere that you must use fixed 22 RF ammo in all ASSRA events ?.

I don't mind paying for good Match Ammo, I cant afford to practice with it a lot  so I practice with ammo that's a notch or two down from the top end ammo that I'm using at the time.   

I  only shoot about five matches a year and it always seemed dumb to travel to a match with gas prices the way they are, pay the entry fee, eat on the road, and then cheat myself out of a win or place because I was trying to save a bit on a 100 rounds of ammo. 

What I'm always looking for is results on the target and I don't mind working to get it, or if I have to pay for it, I save up my pennies and pay for it. The top shooters ( the guys I'm shooting against ) are all using the good European fixed ammo, so I feel somewhat handicapped shooting low end ammo,  and no matter what I try an do, measure rims, weight the ammo, etc. I cant get the low end ammo to shoot anywhere as good as the better ammo.

I am a re-loader when it comes to CF ammo because I can load better ammo than what I can buy, but not so with 22 RF ammo, manly because most of the events I shoot will not allow anything but factory fixed ammo. 
Can you let me know what events allow re-loaded or even re-lubed 22 RF ammo.
  Regards
  H. M. Pope

This is the official ASSRA rules regarding 22rf.

Section 1.13: .22 Rimfire Rifles
.22 caliber rimfire rifles are classified separately and do not compete with the centerfire rifles. Only .22 Short, Long or Long rifle cartridges shall be in this category.

It says nothing about factory ammo, BSing or reloaded ammo, only the caliber of the cartridge. 

That as it should be. Our tradition is based on reloading plain based bullets and BSing is also a long time tradition. Though I've found no record of BSing 22rf's, I would find it almost unbelievable that it wasn't done at least 100 years before 1990. 

I started breech seating in ASSRA matches with that combo in 1990. I've own matches with it and I was never questions about it's legality.

It's very easy to do. The BSer is only a piece of 3/8 brass rod, to fit the chamber and engrave about .040 of the base band. The hardest part was the load. That took at least 3 weeks of testing several powders from Herco on the slow side to B'eye fast. It's actually easier to do than BSing a CF case.

Frank

Frank,
Your correct, and I agree, the rules say "22 Short, Long or Long rifle cartridges"  the key word is cartridges, look up the word cartridges and the definition will say:

  A cartridge, also called a round of ammunition, packages the Bullet, Gunpowder, and Primer into a single metallic case. That's also considered a fixed round of ammunition.   

I would think a Match Director would agree with the definition of a cartridge as written, yes you can reload your 22 RF but you would have to shoot it as fixed ammo.

I'm still not sure it would be worth the effort for me to buy a mold, get the right lead, cast the bullets, lube them, find primed cases, load the right charge of powder, etc. etc.  I would really have to see them shoot, or at least see some consistent winning scores with reloaded 22 RF's for me take the time and spend the money to get involved in something like that.

But knowing shooters the way I do,  I think if a few of them start to shoot winning scores using reloaded  22 RF ammo I'm sure a lot of others would start doing the same thing.

I still think that if your looking for a high degree of accuracy it's hard to beat the European Match ammo. 
  Regards
    H. M. Pope