Nope, a BB cap uses a round ball, while a CB cap uses a conical one, thus "CB" cap. Wikipedia doesn't necessarily have all of the info, or have it right, although in this case they do, pretty much. You should have followed the linkie in the CB cap article to BB cap.Keith B wrote:I think the term today on these is a CB Cap .22 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.22_CB" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; Can still find those at some gun shops. They work good for neighborhood squirrels.jimlongley wrote:Predating the Colibri by more than 100 years was the BB (Bulleted Breech) cap, and quite common in the county fair guns. I used to win at those fairly regularly, it was primarily a matter of getting the carny to let you use the same gun often enough to find out how far off its sights were and then using "Kentucky Windage" to run the score up. Most of the carnies would take notice if you kept using the same gun over and over and would make you change guns, but if you were sneaky enough you could get away with it, particularly noting that the carnies took breaks and moved from booth to booth. It helped that I didn't hit my growth spurt until I was almost 16, so I still looked like a kid even when I was an active NRA competitor.wgoforth wrote:Isn't there a .22 used just for carnivals and such that has no powder but only the cap?
Edit: Found it... a .22 colibri
One old carny switched me to a little gun that had the front sight bent almost 90 degrees, but after a few shots I had it figured out and put all my shots in the center of the star before he had a chance to switch me to another gun, and then when he was trying show me that all the shots hadn't made it through the center of the star, the piece of target that he had stuck to his finger fell off.
Got a big (6 foot) stuffed shark for my date out of that one, but I wound up carrying it.
A couple of other things the carnies used to do was not clean the guns, and some had the rifling, if not removed, at least severely compromised.
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The concept of the rimfire cartridge had been around for a while when Flobert, among others, devloped and patented his priming system, which evolved into our well known and arguably most popular cartridge family, the .22 rimfire. Initial patents were issued in 1831, and Flobert, with his friend Warnant, started selling guns in 1836, with the BB cap introduced in the late 1880s for quiet shooting in the comfort of one's home.