Weird thought, .22lr X frame

[Smith357]

.22lr X frame? Am I out of my ever lovin' mind?

Since S&W can get 8 shots of 22lr in a J frame and 10 in the K frame how many could they squeeze into an X frame? 15? 18? 20? USFA has crammed 12 .22lrs into a SAA cylinder The New Model 12/22™

Then to make it lighter they could use an alloy frame and pencil barrel.

Or how about a double bore that looks like a full underlug with chambers staggered in the cylinder?


I have got to quit thinking about stuff like this.

[valkyriekl]

I'd really like a 10 or 12-shot .22 N-frame to go with my S&W 625; the N-frame grip and balance (especially with the 5") really works well for me; so it'd be cool to have something like a 5" half-lug N-frame .22 (to compensate for the smaller bore diameter).

[red9]

Taurus makes (or at least made) 22's and 17's on their large Raging Bull frame. Neat guns! I'd like to see a Smith to compete.

Bob

[Maximumbob54]

This is crazy talk but a buddy of mine wants to see an over / under .22LR barrel where the cylinder is staggered with and inner and outer ring. He had me going until we started to think what the cost vs use of such a thing would be. Like I said, crazy talk.

[stantheman86]

An X-frame .22 LR Talk about overbuilt...I think a K-Frame 10-shot .22 is almost too much steel for that little round.....An X-frame, even with 14 or so little holes, would have a heavy cylinder and have the same problem as the .357 Ruger Redhawk, so much steel and weight that in fast DA or hard SA, over time the cylinder stop and bolt stop notches get beat up and the cylinder gets loose.

I would like to see a 6 or 7 shot 4" J-frame .22 LR with adjustable sights.

[Sprefix]

The task of designing a new DA revolver, with an entirely new frame size, capable of handling pressures typical of a bolt action rifle, fell largely to S&W engineer Brett Curry. Before Curry was turned loose on what would come to be known as the X-frame, however, he was given an instruction that would ultimately make the .500 S&W Magnum even more formidable than the company intended.
Herb Belin, the head of S&W revolver product development at the time, was thinking that any new frame size should, like that of all other S&W revolvers, be usable for a variety of calibers, not just one. Belin (or one of his team) thought that it might be possible, sometime in the future, to build an X-frame revolver that would shoot the .223 rifle round. Belin told Curry to make the new gun’s frame and cylinder long enough to swallow a .223 round without modification. Then, without thinking about the implications of what he had just done, Belin sent Curry on his way and went back to his desk to tackle his in-box. (I wasn’t there, but that’s how I imagine it happening.) --------Now, what could have been or will be......The birth of the .500 S&W and I believe it could be chambered as you wish but WHAT A BEHEMOTH!!!!!