It's back and it's better!!!

[Kirkned]

Well it took a non US producer to do it but it is back. What you say well hold on and I'll tell you. Simply the greatest rimfire ever produced. It was only 34 years ahead of it's time, most folks do not even know that it existed and was created by Big Green. What you say? Well back in 1968 Remington produced a revolutionary rimfire cartridge in 20 caliber but made a fatal mistake and called it the 5mm Remington Magnum. This naming killed it before it was ever produce. The only metric cartridge to do well in the U.S.A is the 7mm Remington Mag. This writer believes that if they would have called it anything other than by a metric designation we would all be shooting this great little rimfire round. Remington produce two rifles the model 591 a clip feed rifle and the model 592 a tube feed version. There were less than 55,000 of these rifles produced and in 1974 when Remington stopped producing the ammunition for these great little rifles we that own them were just S.O.L. I have 21 rounds with the old 38 grained HP left. I have not shot this rifle for more than five years and when I last shot it it was only once at a jackrabbit that just seemed to be asking for a 5mm slug to be sent his way. I had to oblige him and the results were just as I had remembered in my youth shooting countless sage rats.
With ammo prices reaching upwards of $75 a box of 50 cartridges it was getting a little spendy to shoot. The last boxes that I bought in 1978 cost me all of $2.59. I took all the little store in Ely, NV had and it was not much only 9 boxes and I have been very, very frugal with these.

Agillia has come to the rescue and is now producing the old 5mm Remington Magnum again. It comes with a 30 grain HP and an advertised 2300 fps muzzle velocity this is 250 fps faster than the old 38 grain cartridge produce by Remington. Price for a box of 50 is in the $15 to $18 range, still more than what a 22 mag. or 17 HMR will run you but a lot cheaper than that $75 a box. I'm hoping that Big Green will catch on and start producing this great little cartridge again. Or perhaps one of the other Ammo manufactures will. Word is that there are several rifles makers that are schedule to produce this great little rifle late in 2008 as of yet only Agillia is making the ammo for it no new rifles have hit the market. TC made some barrels in 5mm Remington and the ones that I have shot do very well with this round. I have always said that Remington was ahead of it's time with this introduction but perhaps now is the time to make a come back.

Kirkned