rimfire ammo

The only reloadable casings are for centrefire cartridges.I know of no way to reload a rimfire casing. And costs would be more than store bought per casing, if it can indeed be done..
 
awesomeame said:
yeah i didn't think so. i guess someone would most likely have to sell the cases with the primer already in 'em

--matt
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You know something .. that would be really really cool if they did that .. selling brass with the primer already inside .. so all you have to do is charge it and seat the bullet.. Only problem is you wouldn't be able to reuse old cases.

I suppose it would end up being more expensive though considering how cheap you can buy the stuff in the store.
 
Only practical things to do with rimfire brass, is either collect it and sell it as scrap, or collect it, and use it to jacket swaged bullets. Which from any reading I've done, once you're going is a great money saver, but is right now IMHO prohibitively expensive to get started up. Unless you're making thousands of bullets, and most likely selling them, it doesn't seem to me to be cost effective.
Me, I just call it "22 caliber sand"
 
slushee said:
You know something .. that would be really really cool if they did that .. selling brass with the primer already inside .. so all you have to do is charge it and seat the bullet.. Only problem is you wouldn't be able to reuse old cases.

I suppose it would end up being more expensive though considering how cheap you can buy the stuff in the store.
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target shooters for whom price is irrelevant have already done that, and it's difficult. The problem is, how to hold the case. If you hold it by the rim while seating the bullet, then you can crush the rim and set it off, if you hold it by the side of the case, the case dents, crushes or crinkles. They were doing it to gain an advantage in metallic silhouette matches (using heavier bullets), and were making custom tools and just dealing with the fact that they might have to ruin ten cases, slowly, and set three or four off, just to make one "custom" rimfire cartridge. Then they'd go shoot them all out of their match cut chamber, with faster than normal rate of twist (needed to stabilize those longer bullets)

As for cost, good target rimfire ammo can go as much as 50 cents or more a round. Try shooting a brick of that in an afternoon!:eek: And yes, they sell it by the brick (alot of dedicated target shooters want all of their pills to come from one lot number only).
 
I remember seeing an article years back, telling about the back woods Russians, reloading for their 22 rimfires.

First they washed out the burnt crap, then used a rod to push the dented rim back out.

They were making their own primer compound, IIRC, from match heads, dissolved in water or vodka.

I cannot recall what they were doing for powder.

Bullets they cast.

Major PITA. Not very safe. Not required when I can buy ammo as easy as I can.

To get a reloadable cartridge in the same class as the 22 mag, look at the likes of the 22CCM or the Hornet. Either would require a centerfire, though.

Cheers
Trev
 
There was a time when primed .22 cases could be bought for the discriminating target shooter, who could seat his bullets with his thumb and shoot them uncrimped letting the rifling set the COL. It turns out that the crimp on a heeled bullet is one of the biggest wildcards in accuracy. A lot of things about .22 manufacture are different then you might think, like the bullet noses being formed after the partially formed slugs are seated in the cases. It's a wonder that they work as well as they do, but somehow 3 or 4 billion a year seem to.
 
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