Several years ago one of the ammo companies loaded some
.22 rimfire ammo that used a case the same length as the .22 LR but with the head dimensions and bullet diameter [inside lubed] of the .22 Rimfire Magnum. It was called the .22 ILARCO, or .22 Short Rimfire Magnum. It would chamber and fire in a rimfire magnum chamber the same way a . 22 Short chambers in a .22 LR.

Personally I wish someone would revive it so there would be a cheaper, quieter, less powerful small game and plinking load for use in .22 WRM guns, especially revolvers.

The greatest shortcoming of the .22 rimfire rounds has always been their heel type bullets. They are the last of this archaic and obsolete design and it seems that it is about time we finally brought these cartridges into the 20th, OOPS! 21st century.

Does anyone else think there would be a market for such a cartridge, again?

Try Winchester Dynapoints. Whast I be3lieve WW did was to load the .22 WMR powder charges and bullets into .22WMR cases.

Nope.don't think there is a market for short, sub-.22WRF cases....not enough demand to fuel a supply; it is easily produced but has little market appeel. .22 mag's are boiught for their speed...antying else is better suited to .22LR use (and considering the $ of ammo, eaily will save the cost of a .22LR in a couple of years of shooting).