Great advantages of .22 rounds

The round has rimfire percussion aimed for hunting small animals or sport shooting. It was created in the U.S., it is also almost always bears the U.S. standard unit (0.22 of an inch). Despite the fact that the charge can be considered to be outdated, is still extremely popular due to cheap manufacturing and the low cost and exceptional accuracy over shorter distances. It is used both in sport and training weapons.

Shooters used such ammunition for exercises..

Diameter of the bullet is equally large as the diameter casing, and you can also use bullet with a plastic sheath in which have tiny fibre. Such cartridges are used primarily for self-defense and are effective only up to a distance of up to 2 m. This caliber have the maximum speed of 150 meters.

After this distance projectile loses most of kinetic energy, and otherwise become completely unstable. In these cartridges, after most of the uncoated lead bullets, which in turn can be manufactured cheaply.

There are several types of ammunition, from subsonic, ultrasonic and regular, but can also apply hollow-tip bullets. The velocity of the round ranging from 390 to 550 m / s (depending on the weight of missiles and powder filling). In the world held a lot of competitions in weapons of this caliber (50 meters rifle, 25 meters pistol ...). Owing to the small charge whis weapons is not loud (especially with subsonic ammunition), which also works as a popular weapon for hunting.