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^ a b c d e " Magnum Rimfire Comparison.Īt the 2008 SHOT show, Taurus International introduced the first handgun chambered for the 5mm Remington Magnum Rimfire. Firearms chambered for 5mm RRM įor a brief time, Thompson Center Arms offered firearms in 5mm Mag. Craig has since sold all the rights to the 5mm Craig to Eagle View Arms of Shelton, Washington. His company, Certech, also performed conversions of 5 mm rifles from rimfire to centerfire by altering the bolts and installing new firing pins, restoring them to use. Mike Craig, in 1994, in Seattle, began work on a centerfire conversion of the 5mm RFM, the 5mm Craig. When Remington discontinued production of 5mm RFM ammunition, owners of Remington 591 and 592 rifles were left with excellent rifles but no ammunition for them. It offers improved performance on small-game and for varmint hunting, along with excellent accuracy. The 5 mm RRM offers higher velocity than the. Both loads use a 30 grain projectile and have a muzzle velocity of 2,300 fps.
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In 2019, Aguila Ammunition announced the company now offered two 5mm RFM loads: one with a semi-jacketed hollow point bullet and a second with a full jacketed hollow point bullet. Until 2019, the cartridges were sold in the United States of America under the Centurion brand. Īt the 2008 SHOT Show, Aguila Ammunition announced it would reintroduce the cartridge and begin commercial production of 5mm RFM ammunition. Some firearms manufacturers even created conversion kits to allow the existing 5 mm guns to shoot other more-common cartridges. įrom 1982 until 2008, no ammunition manufacturers manufactured rounds for this cartridge. 22 Winchester Magnum, but stronger to handle the higher pressure of the 5 mm at 33,000 PSI. Remington designed a completely new, bottlenecked case that was somewhat similar to the older. In 2008, the cartridge was reintroduced by Mexico's Aguila Ammunition in collaboration with Centurion Ordnance.
Remington discontinued the cartridge itself in 1982, leaving owners with no source of ammunition. About 52,000 rifles and 30,000 barrels for the T/C Contender pistol were sold during its brief production run. Remington chambered it in a pair of bolt-action rifles, the Model 591 and Model 592, but this ammunition never became very popular, and the rifles were discontinued in 1974. The 5mm Remington Rimfire Magnum or 5mm RFM is a bottlenecked rimfire cartridge introduced by Remington Arms Company in 1969.
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