Shooting air rifle pellets with nail gun blanks

Not to sound clichéd, but, what's the worst that could happen?

I'm thinking the one thing that could go wrong is if the blank and pellet are too close together. If the crimped part of the blank gets inside the pellet skirt and can't fully open. Even then... I still think it would fire. I mean, it's really just the same concept as the Hammond Game Getter


I don't like the muzze loading though. I'd be worried about crushing the pellet skirt while tamping it down. I think I'd fashion a 90deg bent coat hanger or something to load it from the breech.

I'd also want to check the bore after every shot in case the pellet disintegrates and leaves part of itself in the barrel.
 
I suppose you could load one "super round" in the chamber, and have the tube full of .22lr. If it was accurate enough, it'd make a great round for taking off bunny heads.
 
well damn, when I was a teenager, I used to cut the "strike anywhere" heads off wood matches and glue it onto pellets. Made explosive tips. nice crack when hitting something hard, and it would blow a big hole in model airplanes.
 
We have been shooting pellets out of primer charged .22 Hornet rifles for years... it is very accurate to 40 yards and we have taken hundreds of grouse and hares with them... primers are cheap.



 
When I was a kid, my brother and I made a die to neck down a 22lr so we could put a .177 pellet in it. We chambered a .177 pellet gun barrel for it and put it on a break action single shot. It didn't work out very well at all. We only ever tried shooting it a couple times. I can't remember for sure, but I think the pellet came out as a spray of lead fragments. We abandoned the idea pretty quickly. We also tried casting heavier bullets for it by drilling holes I'm a block of hardened plaster, then melting lead into the holes. That little project didn't really pan out either. I remember burning my fingers when a case rim ruptured. Ah to be young and stupid again and not have all these laws about building your own guns.
Kristian
 
Many years ago my brother tried shooting a .22 caliber pellet out of his Cooey Model 39 using a .22 ram set cartridge. It didn't end well. The chamber near the extractor cut out bulged and the bolt handle separated from the bolt. The rifle was destroyed and my brother was fortunate not to be injured.
 
Back in the 60s we used starter pistol blanks and .22 pellets. It was almost silent when shot out of my Model 39 Cooey.
Only problem was blowing the skirt off which was a pain to clean out.
I will try to chroni it if I can find some blanks.
 
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