5mm magnum

[Simon6101]

Did some trading with an old friend yesterday and got a pretty cool rimfire rifle. Remington 592 in 5mm magnum along with 3 boxes of ammo. Made between 1970 and 1974. Ammo is a little hard to find and kinda pricey but I don't intend on shooting it a bunch anyway

 

[Cameramonkey]

Pics or it didn’t happen.
sounds like a cool round.

 

[Colt556]

That rifle came out when I was in high school. Pretty neat idea and nice round at the time. Remington, or maybe some other company, will do a run of 5mm every so often but it usually sells out pretty quickly. Enjoy your new rifle.

 

[Simon6101]

Pics or it didn’t happen.
sounds like a cool round.

Ill post some later. I

That rifle came out when I was in high school. Pretty neat idea and nice round at the time. Remington, or maybe some other company, will do a run of 5mm every so often but it usually sells out pretty quickly. Enjoy your new rifle.

Aquila was the last company doing runs of it. Remington, Centurion and Aquila are the only brands I've seen so far.

 

[Noble Sniper]

A counter I frequent had one for sale and it had led a hard life. I was looking real hard at it and massaging it a bit and have it reworked to a 5mm Craig….. the Craig being a center fire. Nice old bolt guns

 

[INP8riot]

Interesting. So this whole rage with .17hmr has already come and gone once!

 

[Simon6101]

Beautiful stock

 

[Simon6101]

Pics or it didn’t happen.
sounds like a cool round.

Pics are up. Lol

 

[Cameramonkey]

Damn! Thats in fine shape!

 

[Simon6101]

Damn! Thats in fine shape!

You wouldn't believe what I traded for the rifle and 3 boxes of ammo

 

[mmpsteve]

Beautiful stock

Beautiful rifle. The 5mm was a dandy little round that deserved a better fate than what it got. No other manufacturers jumped on that bandwagon, and so it basically died. Your 592, I believe, is built on the same action as the 580, 581, and 582 22LR rifles, and probably the 540 series rifles as well.

The 580 series, despite being economy models, are well known for punching well above their pay grade in terms of accuracy. I have a 582 that will put 10 Rounds into 1/2" at 50 yards without even trying hard.

I look forward to hearing your range reports once you put it to work!

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[Simon6101]

Unfortunately unless I can find more ammo than I have ,this jewel is going to remain unfired. I have a 581 and you are correct that it is a very accurate rifle. I mainly picked this up because of what it is and who I got it from.

 

[atticachert]

I’ve got a 591. It’s very comparable to a 17. As far as range and drop go. But as far as pounds on impact the 5 mm is leaps and bounds ahead of the 17. Shooting a piece of steel the 17 just leaves a lead mark where the 5 mm leaves a quarter inch indentation.

 

[wisboy]

I have a 5MM Rem mag fed whatever model that is . Fun cartridge . Stocked up with Aquilla a few years ago.However, rather cheap rifles.