.255 Jeffery Rook

Firearm cartridge .255 Jeffery Rook 260px United Kingdom Rifle W. J. Jeffery & Co. Rimmed, bottleneck .255 .274 .344 .401 1.15 1.43 65 1200 208 Cartridges of the World. The .255 Jeffery Rook / 6.5x29mmR, also known as the .255 Jeffery Rook Rifle, is an obsolete small bore intermediate firearm cartridge. Overview The .255 Jeffery Rook is a rimmed centerfire cartridge. It was loaded with both black powder and smokeless powders, usually with a 65 gr g on lead solid or hollowpoint bullet at a standard muzzle velocity of 1200 ft/s m/s on. The .255 Jeffery Rook was developed by W. J. Jeffery & Co. and originally designed for use in rook rifles for hunting small game and target shooting. It gained an excellent reputation for accuracy and was widely used for target shooting before being superseded by the .22 Long Rifle as a miniature target round, and it was also chambered in some single-shot pistols. Major Percy Powell-Cotton carried a W. J. Jeffery & Co. rook rifle chambered in .255 Jeffery Rook on a number of his expeditions stating it "is often better than the shot-gun for collecting specimens and providing for the pot." Dimensions thumb|center|300px See also Rook rifle List of rifle cartridges List of rimmed cartridges 6 mm rifle cartridges References Frank C. Barnes, Cartridges of the World, 15th ed, Gun Digest Books, Iola, 2016, 978-1-4402-4642-5. Imperial War Museums, ".255 Jeffery rook rifle", iwm.org.uk, retrieved 18 April 2017. Major P. H. G. Powell-Cotton, In unknown Africa: a narrative of twenty months' travel and sport in unknown lands and among new tribes, Hurst & Blackett, London, 1904. External links Cartridgecollector, ".255 Jeffery Rook", cartridgecollector.net, retrieved 18 April 2017. The Spanish Association of Cartridge Collectors, ".246 Purdey Nitro Express", municion.org https://web.archive.org/web/20170418164443/http://www.municion.org/Jeffery/255JefferyRook.htm 2017-04-18 , retrieved 18 April 2017. Category:British firearm cartridges Category:Pistol and rifle cartridges Category:Rimmed cartridges Category:Rook rifle cartridges Category:W. J. Jeffery & Co. cartridges