Winchester Ammunition introduces 21 Sharp, a new rimfire cartridge with an innovative design that provides significant benefits for recreational shooters and small game hunters.
The new cartridge is an evolution in rimfire technology and performance. Winchester engineering expertise is at the core of the 21 Sharp design, built from the ground up for enhanced accuracy and on-target performance with both lead and lead-free projectiles. Ammo manufacturers have tried with little success to incorporate lead free projectiles into use in the venerable 22 Long Rifle (LR) cartridge. While those products are available, none have ever met the accuracy and on-target performance that a lead projectile can provide due to the original 22 LR design. The new 21 Sharp rimfire cartridge from Winchester was purposefully designed by Winchester to provide top performance with lead-free projectiles rather than accommodating them later.
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The new cartridge allows for a wide range of bullet types including full metal jacket (FMJ), copper matrix and plated-lead options. Jacketed hollow point (JHP) bullets will also be available in 21 Sharp, delivering extreme expansion and energy transfer.
“The 21 Sharp cartridge offers significant advantages in the rimfire category, which is one of the more popular types of firearms and ammunition used by millions of people throughout the world,” said Kyle Masinelli, Senior Director of Product Innovation and Strategy for Winchester Ammunition. “Winchester leadership in cartridge development spans more than 100 years and as the global leader in ammunition design and manufacturing; it’s our job to serve our customers with innovative products that fit their needs now and into the future. That is what has been done with 21 Sharp.”
21 Sharp™ Ammunition Offerings:
- Game & Target 25 grain, Copper Matrix – The Winchester designed, lead-free, rimfire bullet produces sub 1.5 MOA groups at 50 yards, outperforming all lead-free .22 LR offerings available today.
- Game & Target 37 grain, Black Copper Plated – This bullet is the most comparable to a standard .22 LR offering with improved accuracy and offers an economical round for plinking applications.
- Game & Target 42 grain, FMJ – Winchester designed this high- performance full metal jacket (FMJ) bullet for those high-volume range sessions with less frequent cleanings and more time for shooting.
- Super X® 34 grain, JHP – The jacketed hollow point (JHP) bullet outperforms its rival, the .22 LR, in terms of accuracy, expansion, and impact energy on small game.
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So is the 21 Sharp just barely above the 22 LR?
There are various 22LR loads that are high velocity.
Bring back the 25 Stevens, a 65 grain bullet at 1250 fps, rifle ballistics.
Heritage and Ruger could chamber their single action revolvers for it.
Lever action rifles can be chambered got the 25 Stevens.
Ruger could chamber the 10/22 for 25 Stevens and call it the 10/25 !
Rarely do you look at something and immediately see the conflict of interest between an ammunition/gun manufacturer and the sporting public, but this certainly stands out. You either have to buy another gun entirely (cue cheers from Winchester et al) or re-barrel an existing gun ($$$) to fire this round. If, instead of keeping the .22 case diameter, they’d kept the .22 bullet diameter and increased the case size, all you’d have to do is run a chambering reamer into the .22 rimfire chamber, radius out the bolt face and extractor, and you could use the new round in your… Read more »
Who requested this, again?? I’m just glad I can still buy ammo for my 5mm Rimfire Magnum
I had a Remington Nylon 66 while in High School. Traded it to someone for a Springfield 1903A3.
Every once in a while I get the urge to buy a Ruger 10/22, but the urge hasn’t hit that critical level yet, know what I mean?
Probably still be thinking about it when they put me in a box.
Long story short, I don’t have a burning need to own a rimfire anything, much less one that requires a new cartridge when .22LR is still proving hard to get.
What gun fires this round?
Another unnecessary caliber.