Vern Humphrey
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I've just started a project to produce the reloadable .22 LR.
I started with an old black powder cartridge known as the .22 Winchester Central Fire (AKA the .22 Hornet.) I bought a 45 grain wide flat nose .225 bullet mold from NOE and a Plain Base gas check maker from Pat Marlins. The Plain Base Checkmaker makes checks from coke cans (.004" thick) and go on bullets that are NOT designed for gas checks. I crimp them on by running the bullets backward through a .225 Lee sizing die.
I lube the sized and gas-checked bullets with Liquid Alox, and load them over 8 grains of Hodgdon's Li'l Gun. I'm capping them with Winchester Small Pistol primers and getting 1 1/2" groups at 100 yards, with a muzzle velocity of about 2100 fps from my M82 Kimber.
I think I have the Ultimate Squirrel Rifle.
I started with an old black powder cartridge known as the .22 Winchester Central Fire (AKA the .22 Hornet.) I bought a 45 grain wide flat nose .225 bullet mold from NOE and a Plain Base gas check maker from Pat Marlins. The Plain Base Checkmaker makes checks from coke cans (.004" thick) and go on bullets that are NOT designed for gas checks. I crimp them on by running the bullets backward through a .225 Lee sizing die.
I lube the sized and gas-checked bullets with Liquid Alox, and load them over 8 grains of Hodgdon's Li'l Gun. I'm capping them with Winchester Small Pistol primers and getting 1 1/2" groups at 100 yards, with a muzzle velocity of about 2100 fps from my M82 Kimber.
I think I have the Ultimate Squirrel Rifle.