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.218 Bee
The .218 Bee is a .22 caliber rifle cartridge created for varmint shooters by Winchester in 1938. The cartridge was originally chambered in lever-action rifles, which may have ultimately led to its lack of popularity.
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Initially the cartridge was designed for Winchester's lever-action rifles, thus the rimmed case. It never really caught on, and later even though it was chambered in new bolt-action rifles, the larger faster .222 Remington overshadowed it when introduced. There was some question about the accuracy of the .218 Bee as compared to the .222, but that was likely due to the difference of inherent accuracy between the bolt-actions rifles commonly chambered for the .222 and the lever-actions commonly chambered for the .218 Bee. Although not in common use, it's still a very effective cartridge in its area, for example small to medium varmints out to about 200 yards (200 m). Production ammunition and rifles are still available from a few manufacturers.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.218_Bee
 
I have a Marlin lever gun in .218 Bee and love it. It's accurate and absolutely deadly on Groundhogs out to 200 yrds. I've also used it to take several Coyotes as well. A great cartridge that almost nobody knows about.
 
Correction to the 2010 Hodgdon Annual Manual
Do not use the 7mm caliber data as it appears in the 2010 Hodgdon Annual Manual.
By Press Release



Shawnee Mission Kansas- Hodgdon Powder Company � the Gunpowder People regret that an error occurred in printing of the 2010 version of the Hodgdon Annual Manual. Pages 108 and 109 in the manual appear in reverse order.



Contact Hodgdon Powder Company for a free reprint of pages 108-109. Do not use the 7mm caliber data as it appears in the 2010 Hodgdon Annual Manual until the corrected copy is received. Phone: 913-362-9455, fax: 913-362-1307, email:[email protected] and mail:6231 Robinson, Shawnee Mission, KS 66202.


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