NAA Companion owners will be happy to hear it's very easy to pull .22 LR ammo. I just pulled the bullet from a Remington 36 grain Golden Bullet bonus pack hollowpoint. That's the extremely cheap crap that Wal-mart sells for $10 per 550. Let's see, do I want to pay $51 shipped for 550 lead bullets from NAA, plus around $1.60 for the powder (assuming 1 gr Bullseye per shot, at $20 per pound), or would I rather pay $10.56 with tax? That's a no-brainer.
All I did was take a piece of 1/2" nominal PVC pipe (it's what I had lying around), cut off half of one end (lengthwise) for about an inch, and drilled a hole through with a 15/64" bit. Put the round through the hole, put a piece of masking tape over it, and start smacking the pipe against a piece of wood, over a piece of paper to catch the powder and stuff. After a few whacks, the bullet and case both went flying into the air. Ended up with a bullet that actually weighs 38 grains, and about 1.3 grains of some kind of small flake pistol powder (some may have gone flying, so I don't know if that's the whole charge). It looks 100% identical in every way to Power Pistol, but I'm not dumb enough to try and ID a powder based on appearance.
The bullet is .469" from nose to tip, about .1235" of which is the heel. The bullet body is .2255" wide, and the heel is .204" at the widest. So if Companions direct from the factory have at least .346" from cylinder face to the counterbore, and the counterbore is greater than .204" in diameter, they should work with these bullets fine. Mine still ain't here so I can't check. UPS says it'll be here Thursday. It looks like there's a number 2 stamped on the bottom of the bullet. Weird.
I'm going to pull a few more and edit in the weights and stuff of the bullets and powder charges.
Bullet 2 weighs 39.3 grains, and came with 1.6 grains of powder. The thing on the bottom of this one looks more like a crooked letter T. It looks nothing like the mark on the other. Maybe it's just a byproduct of the manufacturing procedure? Length .476", heel .118", width .226", heel width .205". I'm starting to get what feels like a dynamite headache, so I suspect whatever powder this is is double-base. I need some kind of airtight container to put this junk in.
Bullet 3 has what might be an M, a W, or a backwards N on the bottom. Are serial numbered bullets becoming a reality?
The bullet is 39.1 grains, and the powder kinda went all over the place. Saved about .7 grain.
Bullet 4 has some kind of unintelligible scribble on it. The bullet formerly known as Prince? Actually, it looks sorta like a human torso with arms, but no legs or head, with a horizontal line above it. This one is a monster, weighing in at 41.2 grains. It's very noticably taller than the other bullets, though the extra height seems to all be in the heel. Powder charge is 1.5 grains, assuming I got it all.
Number 5 is definitely a backwards S. It weighs 39.4 gr. I'm now positive I'm losing some powder every time, so no powder weight. Average charge is probably 1.6 to 1.8 grains.
So for these 5 bullets, the average weight is 39.4 grains, with an extreme spread of 3.2 grains.
All I did was take a piece of 1/2" nominal PVC pipe (it's what I had lying around), cut off half of one end (lengthwise) for about an inch, and drilled a hole through with a 15/64" bit. Put the round through the hole, put a piece of masking tape over it, and start smacking the pipe against a piece of wood, over a piece of paper to catch the powder and stuff. After a few whacks, the bullet and case both went flying into the air. Ended up with a bullet that actually weighs 38 grains, and about 1.3 grains of some kind of small flake pistol powder (some may have gone flying, so I don't know if that's the whole charge). It looks 100% identical in every way to Power Pistol, but I'm not dumb enough to try and ID a powder based on appearance.
The bullet is .469" from nose to tip, about .1235" of which is the heel. The bullet body is .2255" wide, and the heel is .204" at the widest. So if Companions direct from the factory have at least .346" from cylinder face to the counterbore, and the counterbore is greater than .204" in diameter, they should work with these bullets fine. Mine still ain't here so I can't check. UPS says it'll be here Thursday. It looks like there's a number 2 stamped on the bottom of the bullet. Weird.
I'm going to pull a few more and edit in the weights and stuff of the bullets and powder charges.
Bullet 2 weighs 39.3 grains, and came with 1.6 grains of powder. The thing on the bottom of this one looks more like a crooked letter T. It looks nothing like the mark on the other. Maybe it's just a byproduct of the manufacturing procedure? Length .476", heel .118", width .226", heel width .205". I'm starting to get what feels like a dynamite headache, so I suspect whatever powder this is is double-base. I need some kind of airtight container to put this junk in.
Bullet 3 has what might be an M, a W, or a backwards N on the bottom. Are serial numbered bullets becoming a reality?
The bullet is 39.1 grains, and the powder kinda went all over the place. Saved about .7 grain.Bullet 4 has some kind of unintelligible scribble on it. The bullet formerly known as Prince? Actually, it looks sorta like a human torso with arms, but no legs or head, with a horizontal line above it. This one is a monster, weighing in at 41.2 grains. It's very noticably taller than the other bullets, though the extra height seems to all be in the heel. Powder charge is 1.5 grains, assuming I got it all.
Number 5 is definitely a backwards S. It weighs 39.4 gr. I'm now positive I'm losing some powder every time, so no powder weight. Average charge is probably 1.6 to 1.8 grains.
So for these 5 bullets, the average weight is 39.4 grains, with an extreme spread of 3.2 grains.
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