Remington Rockets

[beezapilot]

Bought a cigar box full of odds and ends at the Farmers Market this morning. Some cool old stuff- the coolest being Remington Rockets! These were sold in a "chicklets" pack of 28 .22 shorts. From what I can find they were high velocity, 1600 fps, and had a sintered iron (heck on your barrel) projectile.... no wonder those gallery guns were smoothbores!

The price on the back of the box of slugs looks to be .89. Just sayin'....

[Winger Ed.]

Cool.

For what you got-- 89 cents was pretty pricey in its day.
$10. for a brick of LR was the norm, and you could catch them on sale a little cheaper too.

[elk hunter]

Interesting find.

When I was young I shot a lot of the Remington Rockets. I believe they were the same as the gallery loads used in the carnival shooting gallery's. I have a 500 round? bulk box of the Winchester ones. The bullets in the gallery loads were listed as "spatter Proof" meaning they broke up and turned to dust when they hit the metal backstop. I remember someone telling me that the bullets were made of compressed graphite and some sort of binder. I haven't seen a box of the Rockets in many many years.

[pworley1]

I shot a lot of rockets when I was a kid.

[georgewxxx]

Peters version of the same .22's was a Thunderbolt.

[Bent Ramrod]

I shot a bunch of them as a kid. They made a very satisfying shower of sparks when fired at an angle against a railroad track.

Single-loaded (with an effort) into my Marlin “Glenfield” .22LR autoloader with Micro-Groove rifling. If they ever damaged the barrel, I never noticed it.

They were kind of expensive in a time when K-Mart would occasionally sell Long Rifles at $0.50 a box, on sale. Back then, 50 cents would get you a McDonald’s burger, fries and a Coke, with change back.