Vintage .22 Ammo Collection

[weatherby]

I have the Remington like you plus others some in the wooden trays and musket caps....little of everything.

 

[boykinlp]

Great Scot, AJ, your collection is quite impressive! Which are your favorites? Also, I am interested in your piece of furniture your .22 collection is in. Is it a repurposed piece or custom piece? Please show us a better picture of it. Thanks.
Larry

 

[boykinlp]

You just need to visit and I'll show you how to fill it.

I am slowly working on filling it. Then I'll known MY collection is done. As DWalt said, you could spend a career, as well as a fortune, and fill a warehouse collecting vintage .22 ammo from what I've seen. Keep the pictures coming! I know with a forum the size of this one, there must be a ton of you with vintage .22 ammo.
Larry

 

[Frank46]

Don't forget the various grades of Russian 22 ammo that was imported into this country sometime back.
Brass and steel cased Junior
Brass cases Temp
Brass cased Sniper
Brass cased Olympic

Frank

 

[AJ]

Great Scot, AJ, your collection is quite impressive! Which are your favorites? Also, I am interested in your piece of furniture your .22 collection is in. Is it a repurposed piece or custom piece? Please show us a better picture of it. Thanks.
Larry

This was a store case for sewing thread. I bought it and took out the portions that held spools of thread. Holds quite a few boxes, most are full so it is quite heavy. The large drawer on the bottom hold larger boxes like .22 Mag. Antique collectors would be upset with me......

 

[AJ]

Don't forget the various grades of Russian 22 ammo that was imported into this country sometime back.
Brass and steel cased Junior
Brass cases Temp
Brass cased Sniper
Brass cased Olympic

Frank

These are some that I have. There are probably some more around somewhere. Ammo is very dirty to shoot.

 

[AJ]

I am slowly working on filling it. Then I'll known MY collection is done. As DWalt said, you could spend a career, as well as a fortune, and fill a warehouse collecting vintage .22 ammo from what I've seen. Keep the pictures coming! I know with a forum the size of this one, there must be a ton of you with vintage .22 ammo.
Larry

Go to this website to get an idea what real collectors are paying......

Ward's Auctions | Welcome

 

[Max-BB]

Ammo

Great pics!! My humble collection of ammo/ stuff- Looks like I need to dust!

 

[AJ]

Great pics!! My humble collection of ammo/ stuff- Looks like I need to dust!

Nice display. If you do dust use the picture to put them back in. My sisters and brother came to visit and my wife spent two days dusting my rooms. Nothing and I repeat nothing made it back in the exact same place!

 

[Max-BB]

Advice

Nice display. If you do dust use the picture to put them back in. My sister and brother came to visit and my wife spent two days dusting my rooms. Nothing and I repeat nothing made it back in the exact same place!

Appreciate the advice. Typically will do some lite dusting when adding to the group sooooo must be time!

 

[AJ]

I am always adding to the grouping. Friend owns a gun shop and buys estates. He only cares about the guns and newer ammo. I make reasonable offers and get stuff. The range officers know I collect and give me odd old boxes and stuff that show up from time to time.

 

[weatherby]

I was digging through the box today.
Taking out some 22 long to shoot up.
This stuff is some of the oldest.

 

[AJ]

I was digging through the box today.
Taking out some 22 long to shoot up.
This stuff is some of the oldest.

Nice collection. I have most if not all of those in the collection.

 

[DWalt]

Don't forget the various grades of Russian 22 ammo that was imported into this country sometime back.
Brass and steel cased Junior
Brass cases Temp
Brass cased Sniper
Brass cased Olympic

Frank

I have a sealed "brick" (actually paper wrapped, not cardboard) of the Russian Junior .22 LR, but I have no idea if it has brass or steel cases, as I don't want to open it to find out. Some of the Junior I had from many years ago (not the same as the foregoing) had steel cases. Very low velocity from a rifle, far subsonic, around 800 ft/sec as I remember.

 

[AJ]

I have a sealed "brick" (actually paper wrapped, not cardboard) of the Russian Junior .22 LR, but I have no idea if it has brass or steel cases, as I don't want to open it to find out. Some of the Junior I had from many years ago (not the same as the foregoing) had steel cases. Very low velocity from a rifle, far subsonic, around 800 ft/sec as I remember.

You mean like this one? Mine has "WITH BRASS CASES" printed above the JUNIOR. These are yellow boxes.

All of the green boxes are steel cased. The Surok boxes are marked V 10=450 M/S. 450 M/S = 1476 FT/S.

 

[CLASSIC12]

Just picked up this bunch form the LGS. Some odd stuff I’d never seen in there

 

[DWalt]

You mean like this one? Mine has "WITH BRASS CASES" printed above the JUNIOR. These are yellow boxes.

All of the green boxes are steel cased. The Surok boxes are marked V 10=450 M/S. 450 M/S = 1476 FT/S.

Mine is the blue/gray label, probably steel cases. Back sometime in the late 1980s, you could buy Juniors pretty cheap at gun shows, seems I paid something around 75 cents per box. The sealed carton I have I bought at the peak of the ammo shortage around 2012, think I paid about $30 for the carton.

 

[AJ]

Mine is the blue/gray label, probably steel cases. Back sometime in the late 1980s, you could buy Juniors pretty cheap at gun shows, seems I paid something around 75 cents per box. The sealed carton I have I bought at the peak of the ammo shortage around 2012, think I paid about $30 for the carton.

Here in Florida, we were paying $20.00 a brick over 15 years ago. Unlike a friend of mine, I just buy stuff and throw it on the shelf. He records everything he buys, how much he paid for it, where he bought it, when he bought and probably records things I never ever think about. I have a bunch of Polish .22 Short ammo that is in paper wrapped bricks and we paid $5.00 for them a while back, maybe 10 years ago.

 

[BRush]

Here are some I have collected over the years.

 

[Drm50]

I posted this thread a few years ago, and got a lot of cool responses.

http://smith-wessonforum.com/ammo/439731-vintage-22-ammo-wow.html?439731=#post138649269

Instead of bumping an old thread, I thought I would start a new one and see what you folks can show pictures of now. The coolest thing that I have added to my collection is a vintage Remington display that I got a couple of year's ago. Even though it is a Remington display, I put all my current collection in it for now.
Larry

That looks like the same model Remington case I had. I sold it but still have all the old 22s. This should be prime time to collect. All the old ammo is now showing up at shows.