Interesting old cartridge

[gbundersea]

Many years ago, my grandfather gave me an old, unusual, unfired cartridge. It is a very short, fairly large caliber rimfire. I came across it last night, and did some research online. It turns out to be a .41 Derringer Rimfire, made by the Union Metallic Cartridge company (who later merged with Remington, hence Remington UMC) around 1885!
Here's the link: http://www.ammo-one.com/41-SHORT-R-F.html

Neat, eh?

Mine is like those pictured, except its case stamp is "U" and the lead is completely white from oxidation.
It's worth about $5.00 $6.95 according to the collector sites.

 

[artabr]

Pretty neat. When they said short, they weren't kidding.
The case is less than ½" tall. It's almost as wide as it is tall.


Art

 

[gbundersea]

Pretty neat. When they said short, they weren't kidding.
The case is less than ½" tall. It's almost as wide as it is tall.
Art

Yep! The overall length is 0.89"!

 

[WILDCATT]

41 rim fire

that was a pretty common gun/cart in the 1870s/1942s.for defense.I had a remington.in those days you did not want to get shot any where as you could get gangerene and die.an arm wound was dangeous.

 

[billy82269]

I shot some of those a few years ago in my Grandmothers Remington Derringer. we have about 15 rounds or so left. I had no idea I was shooting $5.00 rounds. Ammo was about 60 or so years old and all went bang when I pulled the trigger. I swear I actually saw the bullet leave the barrel, but it was pretty accurate. I hit a metal pie plate at about 10 yrds. all four rounds I fired.