Reloadable .22lr - someone needs to invent...
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g.willikers
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Ask and you shall receive:
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Easy as pie.
Whip up a batch of mercury fulminate.
Swab it into the rims of the used .22 casings.
Put in powder and top with bullet.
I understand the Russians did this during WWII
when the shortages were extreme and their
champion marksmen were employed with target
rifles.
In silhouette shooting at a Georgia club, we used
.22 lr (factory) with good results out to 100 yards.
So a .22 can be employed at "long ranges."
Whip up a batch of mercury fulminate.
Swab it into the rims of the used .22 casings.
Put in powder and top with bullet.
I understand the Russians did this during WWII
when the shortages were extreme and their
champion marksmen were employed with target
rifles.
In silhouette shooting at a Georgia club, we used
.22 lr (factory) with good results out to 100 yards.
So a .22 can be employed at "long ranges."
Priming compound is SCARY. It's a touch sensitive explosive. Reloading .22 lr isn't even a cool way to lose fingers or eyes.
Match heads and cap gun caps are also EXTREMELY corrosive.
If you are absolutely desperate, you could probably buy a reloading kit and get ok results as long as you are extremely careful with the priming compound.
Match heads and cap gun caps are also EXTREMELY corrosive.
If you are absolutely desperate, you could probably buy a reloading kit and get ok results as long as you are extremely careful with the priming compound.
Remington74
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I think the 22 Hornet idea would be the better way to go. Buy a pound of powder, stock up on 22 bullets and small primers when they are on sale. Buy a large number of Hornet cases from Midway or one of the other on-line dealers and an in-expensive reloading kit.
I believe you would get better accuracy and have less time/labor involved in the process.
But, some people just enjoy the challenge, I just enjoy the shooting. (And reloading)
I believe you would get better accuracy and have less time/labor involved in the process.
But, some people just enjoy the challenge, I just enjoy the shooting. (And reloading)
OkieCruffler
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There's always the 22 cooper. more of a 22 mag but you could improvise
dakota.potts
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Would there be a market for a small, centerfire cartridge with similar performance to a .22lr that could be reloaded? I thought I remembered reading that one user here reloads .32-20 for something like 7 cents a round. I doubt it would be popular with the mainstream market, but I wonder if this is something the reloading crowd would be interested in.
A pause for the COZ
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Thats why i reload and shoot a whole bunch of 32L's I can do it for about what a box of 22's cost.
For rifle I shoot a Savage Sporter in 32-20
Or for fun I take out my Stevens favorite in 32L Rim Fire.
For rifle I shoot a Savage Sporter in 32-20
Or for fun I take out my Stevens favorite in 32L Rim Fire.
Well, here is an idea that would probably work. buy .22lr blanks at home depot and .22 caliber pellets for pellet rifles. Load a blank round into the rifle, and push the pellet down the barrel like a muzzle loader. I certainly would not recommend this, but science may agree that this could work?
-George
-George
As others have suggested get a .22 Hornet. Reload with a pellet using primer only. Variations on this plan is to make a small expander die for the pellets. Pellets measure .222" in diameter but they can be bumped up to .224 for better fit in the case/gun. For more "OOMPH" solder a handle onto a fired large primer with anvil removed & then using a fast pistol powder try 1 or 2 scoops.
I've never done this with the Hornet but I've had good results in a .22-250.
It's all fun...
...bug
I've never done this with the Hornet but I've had good results in a .22-250.
It's all fun...
...bug
"Whip up a batch of mercury fulminate.
Swab it into the rims of the used .22 casings.
Put in powder and top with bullet."...........It would be my luck that the firing pin would hit on the old indent which held no fuminate of mercury due to pinching off of rim.........not reliable.
Swab it into the rims of the used .22 casings.
Put in powder and top with bullet."...........It would be my luck that the firing pin would hit on the old indent which held no fuminate of mercury due to pinching off of rim.........not reliable.
Aguila Blanca
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It's been done. There are videos on Youtube of at least two different people doing this. I'd like to take it a step farther and find a way to open up the crimped tips of the blanks and seat a bullet in them -- essentially buying pre-primed (and preloaded) rimfire brass.l98ster said:
.22LR continues to exist today in (nearly) it's original form BECAUSE it is a rimfire... and a rimfire is a rimfire because it is low in cost to produce.
If .22LR were reloadable... it couldn't be rimfire. And if it wasn't rimfire (and thus... low in cost) it wouldn't be so darn popular.
The entire subject here is some kind of circular reasoning. It's not all too far off to cry to the world that someone needs to produce and market some dehydrated water. You know, so we could have it when we need it, but so that it doesn't take up so much space.
If .22LR were reloadable... it couldn't be rimfire. And if it wasn't rimfire (and thus... low in cost) it wouldn't be so darn popular.
The entire subject here is some kind of circular reasoning. It's not all too far off to cry to the world that someone needs to produce and market some dehydrated water. You know, so we could have it when we need it, but so that it doesn't take up so much space.