Originally Posted by
tazman
When using shorts, you need to be sure and clean the chamber of your rifle( assuming it will also shoot LR). You can build up a fouling deposit in the front part of the chamber and it can make feeding and extraction of LR difficult.
I know many people who don't clean the chambers of their 22 rifles and only use LR. They don't want to disturb the "seasoning" of the barrel. This is fine as long as all you shoot in the rifle are LR.
If you switch back and forth between shorts and LR it can be an issue.