Derrginer Rider? Anyone got one... .17 balls anyone?

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Hi Guys,

i just had UPS deliver my freshly auctioned
Derringer Rider Replica.

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...wherethe.. do i get 4,3mm /.17 lead balls for it??
Has anyone epxerimented with adding a tiny bit of propellant
to the cap... for more pleasure?

Cheers, Mp7
 
neat little guns there, i think bbs for bb guns are too big... so dont try shooting them, not to mention they are steel. you could try some haevy shot sizes, try a box loaded with #2 shot, #4 is too small, and you may actually have to go to buckshot. that would be a good starting point though.
 
Cap only, no powder

Everything I have seen on these little guns say, no powder. Cap pressure only.

As for lead balls, you might try Midway. I think one of the BB manufacturers they list makes lead ball BB's. I think Cabela's and Dixie carry the .17 balls, too.

The Doc is out now. :cool:
 
cap only. hmmm good thing i dont have one. i would be too tempted to put in a couple of grains of holy black in there
 
Thanks guys, ...i already found a source for them... at pharmacy-prices though.

like 20$ for 500 balls..... but hey...

(Had a **** workweek... like 70+ hours.. i think i´ll
borrow a .50AE at the range and do some boooom!)
 
I was looking at one of those too, and found a site that mentioned some brand of conical pellets that are heavier than common pellets. I don't see what trying a run of the mill pellet would hurt.
 
..yeah - plus with only a cap behind it - i don´t see heavier bullets improving anything.
 
what trying a run of the mill pellet would hurt.

I saw a post a couple of years ago from a guy who had shot .177 pellets in his. You might even be able to stuff a few tenths grain in the base of a diabolo pellet. Probably wouldn't hurt anything unless it blew out the nose of the pellet. If that happened you could push out the skirt with a rod of some sort.
Back in the 60s, some gunwriter converted a K22 to shoot pellets powered by small pistol primers. It worked very well. I trided shooting 22 pellets out of my colt buntline scout powered by acorn blanks but hose things woud just blow a hole out the end of the pellet.
 
:)

Yep - it does work.

Like seen in the utube vids - usually the first trigger-pull
only pushes the cap tighter onto the piston.
The second triggerpull then does the job.

i just received the ball-ammo, so it will be tryouts tonite :)
already shot a little flare-ball i took from a new-years rocket!
That was really cool. It flew like 20ft.

a fun lil gun-thingy!
 
You might even be able to stuff a few tenths grain in the base of a diabolo pellet. Probably wouldn't hurt anything unless it blew out the nose of the pellet. If that happened you could push out the skirt with a rod of some sort.

I suspect any powder at all would blow off the tip. I epoxied a short length of .22 barrel (one of them things for converting a brass cap and ball derringer into a .22) into a .40 S&W case, awhile ago. With a CCI small pistol primer (CCIs are supposed to be the "coolest" primers on the market), 9 out of 10 shots, only the tip exits, and then I have to dig the skirt out.

That guy's converted K22 probably had more of a gap between the primer and pellet.
 
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