.22 bullet "trimmer"

[MikeWSC]

Hello Everyone & Merry Christmas,

Looking for a .22 lr trimmer. Seen one in a magazine quite a while back. It was a small block that you would drop a round nosed .22 into and a
blade on a pivot pin would trim a small amount of lead off and make it a flat point. The article said they worked great on squirels.

Thought it would be neat to try out if its still made. Any ideas?

Thanks....... Mike

 

[Car Knocker]

Not quite the same thing but somewhat similar:

http://www.gunblast.com/Paco.htm

http://www.gunblast.com/Paco_Scorpn.htm

I have read good reviews on these, FWIW.

 

[Brian Williams]

not a trimmer but a reshaper, get Paco's acuriz'r, tis great.

 

[MikeWSC]

Thanks guys,
Just e-mailed Paco on how to order one.

Best......Mike

 

[461]

Paco puts out an excellent product. I wish I could find mine, I know it's out there somewhere.

 

[college]

22 bullet trimmer

I purchased a "trimmer" which makes the front of the .22 lead bullet flat and also insured the diameter of the bullet. I believe that it actually helps me making a good bullet better. It does not make a great bullet i.e. Eley Red, Midas M better.
The die fits in your standard press and makes it easy to use. The name and address of the manufacturer is below.
Good shooting,
college
Mr. Neal B. Waltz
4105 Hyatt North West
Massillon, OH 44646

Neal B Waltz <[email protected]>

 

[mainmech48]

MANY years ago some friends and I made copies of one we'd seen in a magazine in our shop class. We bought a .22 LR chamber reamer and used it on steel bushings which we then trimmed to length.

We also copied the old Georg hollow-pointing tool in both .22 RF and .38 Spl., which was a very similar set-up.

We were avid small game hunters, mostly squirrels and cottontails. "High Speed" .22LR ammo, either solids or HPs, cost considerably more than SV (no HPs at the time) solids. Both HS and SV solids would often drill right through without dropping the game, too often resulting in a 'lost' animal. HSHPs destroyed a lot of edible meat on anything but a clean head shot.

Putting a flat nose on an SV solid solved both problems. The trick was to do it with enough consistency to leave accuracy relatively unaffected. The simple tool made it possible.

The ammo we concocted proved to be both very accurate and extremely effective. Body shots (especially on running rabbits) very often would not exit, expending all their energy in the target and we lost many, many fewer animals.

FWIW, CCI makes essentially the same thing now in their "SGB" loads.

A couple of other small points in the concept's favor:

SV loads are much quieter. IME their report seems to "spook" the other game in the area less allowing for better success in a piece of wood lot.

Quality SV loads often deliver more consistently fine accuracy than HS/HV does. "Match" ammo is loaded to the same levels for good reasons.

IMO, combining the FP tool with Aguila SV ammo might just give you the most accurate and effective squirrel load you've ever seen if your rifle likes it.

 

[Snapping Twig]

I bought one over 20 years ago and it is a tool steel tube that is slightly shorter than a .22LR. You insert the round, hold it in place and run the exposed tip over a file for a TC profile and a large metplat.

My tool makes any inexpensive .22 into an efficient hunting round with no feeding issues in either my 10/22 or my Mk II.

Yes, I have taken small game with it and it's deadly.

I'll try to dig it out of my hunting gear and if it's marked with a manufacturer, I'll post the name.