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Is there any good option for reloading .22? I've seen the .22 reloader.com set up. I have over 20,000 spent rounds and figured on those rainy board day could be something to do. Thanks for any good advice.
 
If I had saved my .22 empties, I think a better use would be to draw them into jackets for .22 centerfire bullets. More expensive than the .22 reloader gimmick, though.
 
The 22 rimfire reloading kits have made a second appearence recently. I first saw some in the mid-late '60s in a magazine. They didn't last too long as the process was labor intensive and a box of 22 lr cost about .59 anywhere (gas stations, grocery stores, bait shops, Army/Navy surplus stores, etc.). I have only read of one feller that has used the new kit and his report wasn't stellar. Still labor intensive. Some have said the priming compound is corrosive, but again, I read it on the internet...:eek:

It's cheaper and easier for me to down load any one of 4 or 5 cartridges to get 22 lr performance (I even have a load for my .44 Magnums of a 123 gr. ball over a dusting of Bullseye for a gallery load. Accurate and quiet).
 
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Unless I mistaken, this kit should be burned as junk. Anyone who sells it belongs in hell, being spanked by Elmer Keith.

It uses MATCHSTICK compound as a primer, BLACK POWDER or firecracker powder, and a cast pellet. You take a fired round, scrape it clean, very CAREFULLY jam match gunk into the rim, then fill it with black powder and jam in a pellet. It ought to take about five minutes each to do the job. The things probably won't be able to hit a soccer ball pat seventy feet o r so, and every time you use it you'll have to do a complete black powder cleanup.

I suggest that you sell your brass at a salvage yard or recycling center.
 
I'd get a small .223 (as I already have)or 22 hornet and reload those... the only reason I have .22 l/rs is the cheap ammo... but to add so much hassle to reload it, there is no point. if .22 l/r dries up, I can always cast for my .223 and be able to reload ammo well into any ammo-pocalypse.
 
I still have a couple of bricks of .22LR from back when it cost around $7-8 per 500-round brick. I probably haven't shot any of my .22LRs in over 7 years. I can reload other calibers for the same price that .22LRs go these days. Back when .22LRs were $7-8 per brick, it was nothing to shoot a whole brick during a day at the range. When you have to spend your own time to reload the ammo, you don't blast through it as fast. :)
 
Elmer didn't go to hell. There are lots of clones in hell whose only purpose is to inflict an eternity of agony on the residents in between the brimstone baths and dates with the veg o matic. A spanking by Elmer is really gonna leave a mark, since hell use rose or BlackBerry canes.

My personal hell would have rap music, Bill Maher,Bill Clinton and Rosie o Donnell.

Elmer Keith will be in heaven, and we'll drink a few beers together while hunting in Africa. Nitro express double rifles will all be beautiful and free. They won't hurt. And if that buffalo gets to me, I'll be able to send him packing with a sweat on the nose.
 
"...any good option for reloading .22..." Not if you're thinking .22 rimfire. You can't use LR empties for anything but bullet jackets(lot of high priced work). They don't even make good drawer pulls. No reliable load data around anyway.
20,000 of 'em weighs about 27 pounds. Not worth hauling to a scrap yard either.
Haven't tried it and will not, but I don't think match stick compound lights via percussion. You'd always have a gap in the priming as well. Mind you, the AMG kit uses the stuff in toy cap gun caps.
http://www.ammoland.com/2015/11/reloading-22lr-ammo/#axzz4Ap6O9vYF
 
briandg, tell us hoe you really feel :D I hadn't heard/read of black powder of flash/fire cracker powder. Just that the priming compound was corrosive. Match head material? The kits I saw had a mold for 40 gr. bullets. Pellets?
 
Well, the video said black powder, but it showed a green canister of Pyrodex P. So it won't be corrosive or as heavily fouling as actual black powder. But the match heads are, I believe, corrosive. Certainly all the cap guns I had as a kid could cause rust and they had the same phosphorous smell as matches.
 
The beautiful thing about this is th a for the price of this silly toy, a box of matches, can of powder, you can buy an air rifle that is probably superior in every way.

Anyone who is so desperate that this seems like a great option for shortages, let me know, and ill send you twenty rounds.
 
It uses MATCHSTICK compound as a primer, BLACK POWDER or firecracker powder, and a cast pellet. You take a fired round, scrape it clean, very CAREFULLY jam match gunk into the rim, then fill it with black powder and jam in a pellet. It ought to take about five minutes each to do the job. The things probably won't be able to hit a soccer ball pat seventy feet o r so, and every time you use it you'll have to do a complete black powder cleanup.
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Labor intensive for sure but like Jim said they sell the priming compound but match heads do work if they're good strike anywhere matches. You wouldn't have to use black powder and I don't see why they wouldn't be as accurate as any other .22 round.
 
I guess that they have invented new priming compound. I wonder what it is, and how a sensitive explosive can be shipped? I need to look that up.

I'm betting that the priming compound is about like match phosphorus. There used to be a product called railroad torpedoes, it was finely ground glass mixed with phosphorus and bp. The stuff was packed in paper, and we're laid out on rails to mark when the train reached a certain point.

Is this priming compound the same thing that is on poppers?

As I said, I'm gonna look at it.
 
Pellet mold? Probably better to create a device to sewage them out of f shot. Probably not going to work so well, though.
 
Yes a mold to cast .22 cal pellets for a quality air rifle. I think that would be a better route to go for a rainy day type stash. I mean, a prepper type stash is the only reason I could see for this 22 reloader.
 
Yep a quality air rifle and a mold for pellets work great. But why get into a whole different world of shooting (firearms vs air guns)? There are many centerfire cartridges that lend themselves well to "22 lr replacements". I have down loaded .223 to rimfire velocities (cheap and accurate), .38 Special wadcutter loads (cheap and quiet, and accurate), gallery loads for .44 Magnum (123 gr balls over a dusting of Bullseye. Cheap, quiet and accurate), and some use shot/balls in their 30-30s with light loads of pistol powder. Plus I've seen airgun pellets propelled by 22 rimfire stud gun blanks in 22 lr rifles...
 
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