![]() ![]() 22 Long or Long Rifle cartridges, as blackpowder ammunition that would not successfully cycle the action, and which would foul the gun’s mechanism, was still common in both calibers. Remington introduced the Model 16 in 1916, and made the decision not to chamber it in the common and popular. The Model 16 isn’t a very unusual weapon by today’s standards, but at the time few makers (one notably being Winchester, with the Model 1903) were making semiautomatic rimfire weapons. ![]() Studying the subject means continually learning about new weapons, and in this case TINCANBANDIT has given us a valuable education on the early Remington autoloading rimfire rifle, the Model 16. The ceiling for entry to become a firearms designer has historically been extremely low, and with that comes a plethora of ideas, designs, and concepts that reached various levels of fruition. Probably the biggest reason firearms history is so charming to someone like me is the virtually endless number of different designs that exist. ![]()
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