I now have 5 revolvers that shoot 22 short black powder. A while ago I made a batch of 22 short BP by pulling some 22 shorts I had and replacing the smokeless with black powder. I didn't think there was a collet for the kinetic bullet puller that was small enough to hold a 22. So I drilled an appropriately sized hole in a 5' long 1x2 and pulled the bullets that way. They pulled pretty cleanly and I only had a few that were too deformed to use. The process was somewhat long and loud.
For this batch I found that I had a collet for the bullet puller small enough to hold a 22. But I found that most of the cases I pulled from the 22 short cartridges with the bullet puller were so deformed by the bullet most of the cases were too damaged to use.
Rather than going back to the 5' long 1x2 I tried to pull the bullets from some 60 grain sub-sonic LR cartridges that I have a thousand of. Because the 60 grain projectiles are so large these long rifle cartridges are loaded in short cases. The bullets are useless to me but the heavier bullet pulls out cleanly. All I have to do is flare the case mouth, charge, seat the bullet by hand and crimp. Here is a finished round
I use a modified wire stripper to crimp the heeled bullet. I also have a modified hole that will round a case if it has some damage. Basically a sizing ring. The cartridge below is in the sizing ring and the crimp ring is to the right.
For this batch I found that I had a collet for the bullet puller small enough to hold a 22. But I found that most of the cases I pulled from the 22 short cartridges with the bullet puller were so deformed by the bullet most of the cases were too damaged to use.
Rather than going back to the 5' long 1x2 I tried to pull the bullets from some 60 grain sub-sonic LR cartridges that I have a thousand of. Because the 60 grain projectiles are so large these long rifle cartridges are loaded in short cases. The bullets are useless to me but the heavier bullet pulls out cleanly. All I have to do is flare the case mouth, charge, seat the bullet by hand and crimp. Here is a finished round
I use a modified wire stripper to crimp the heeled bullet. I also have a modified hole that will round a case if it has some damage. Basically a sizing ring. The cartridge below is in the sizing ring and the crimp ring is to the right.