Well, finished building yet another .22 converter...

[Busyhands94]

I made another Conversion form my Remmy today, took a couple hours and an old Iver&Johnson revolver barrel. It is a single shot, and makes for a real light gun! The barrel may be short, but it's actually not bad as far as accuracy goes. I fired some blackpowder .22s and smokeless .22s in it, and the converter digests them just fine! I found that the percussion hammer will actually set off the rimfire cartridges without any problems! That's a pleasant surprise! It is simple to load. although I need to use an Allen wrench to eject the shells after I fire my shot. That is my ejector.

 

[Majes]

Busyhands94, while I admire what you are doing and share your enjoyment in creating such things.

I'll be the first to caution you here as others have done of other threads. Build your own all ya want but when you become public and tell everyone on youetube how to do it some moron is gonna put 22 mag in there and blow himself up, and the feds gonna find your youetube chan on his computer.

Call me an old paranoid fart but I consider you a true Internet friend, I have enjoyed your videos and post here and I don't want to see you have any troubles in your young life that could well follow you forever.

Yes I know you had a disclaimer and ya said you wouldn't sell any, but what if I buiult one based on watching your videos and blew myself up ? Lawyers are money hungry buggers, I know I married one.

Carry on.

 

[Busyhands94]

Thanks for the concern, I've actually decided to not make an instructional video on how to make a blackpowder .22 like I was planning, Too much risk for me. I'm also going to put a disclaimer in the description box on my videos, something along the lines of "Do not try this at home, we assume no liability if you make one and hurt yourself or other people" just to be safe on anything that could potentially be copied by some idiot. I'm also going to leave out any crucial information on how to do stuff like that. I want to be more careful about this.

~Levi

 

[Busyhands94]

Although I must admit, an 1858 Remington in .22 LR makes me all giddy inside! I like it!

 

[Majes]

Oh yes I want one too, and I actually am admiring your design with that in mind.

For what it's worth I just asked my wife to look at your disclaimer you proposed..

Her response was instant. "we assume no liability" lends the reader to assume this comes from a corporation of individuals already tested this by industry standards. bla bla

Man, I never meant to be a sour puss here, that's just what she said. But I don't hire her so Use Ya Best Judgment

 

[arcticap]

I can understand there being a disclaimer, but to warn an inventor not to post about how he made a product for his own use is counter to free speech which is helping to promote the 2nd Amendment, and which is also part of this website's sacred mission.
There's books published that give instructions about how to make bombs, this website has a sticky thread about making black powder, there's gunsmithing advice and posts giving instructions about how people have made all kinds of non-conventional guns and weapons.
IMO no one should be worried about being sued for posting a video or for giving details about a product that they made for their own personal use as long as the product is legal.
That's just what the anti's would want a young pro-2A inventor to think so that he would too be too scared to post the information that he has every right to post.
This is The High Road and we're the NRA. Molon Labe!

 

[Busyhands94]

Steve, I just joined the NRA bout' a month ago! I feel like I took way too long to do so, they mean so much to me. If there wasn't an NRA we wouldn't have it as good as we do now. I am so glad to be free! From my cold dead fingers, Sarah Brady!

I am loving these cartridge conversions I've been making. This one is the best! With the full sight picture and good sight radius of the Remington it actually is decently accurate! I put it in a vice a couple hours ago with some leather to pad my gun and shot 5 .22 shorts with it. All five were put in one ragged hole, it locks up tight enough to make it accurate so it shoots the same place every single time! It does shoot a tad low, but that's expected given it was close to the target. I recovered the rounds from my bullet trap, and noticed they all were pretty flattened out, the bore is so tight that it is giving them higher velocity than in the NAA converter. I noticed the bore of my NAA is noticeably wider than the bore on the converter, so that's a pleasant little surprise! The bullets also took up the rifling well, none keyholed. Even though I chambered it with a drill press, drill bit, and some tape to tell me how deep to go it's still a nice little .22 rimfire! Being chambered in the first cartridge I ever fired, in my favorite handgun (cartridge or otherwise) that makes it even more cool!

~Levi

 

[Lunie]

One more word of caution, make sure you don't run afoul of California or Federal law with any of the things you make. When you move away from the defined "antique ignition systems" such as percussion, and move into the realm of fixed cartridges... Well...

I'm not a lawyer, but I hope you consider such things before you turn your mental or paper ideas into wood and steel. Especially if you are showing them publicly.

The best to ya Levi.

 

[Busyhands94]

I always do! The beauty of this system is that the unit itself, is not a firearm. The Remmy is a firearm, but Uncle Sam doesn't care. The law IIRC is that any law abiding citizen can make their own firearm given they don't sell it. I'll also be moving to Nevada when I'm a legal adult, and the law there is that anyone 18 or older not convicted of a felony can own or do a private party transfer of a handgun without all that paperwork we have to do in Kali. But until March I'll be keeping my gun without that converter in it unless I'm shooting it. I asked the nice fellow at the gun shop when I was there not too long ago, he said Pa' has to be with me when I shoot .22s with it, That seems reasonable and like something I can do.

Stay safe and God bless America!
~Levi

 

[Busyhands94]

I got an extra box of CCI CB shorts today, and tried them out. They are so dang quiet in my gun! I had my brother Aaron shoot it today, I told him they were "silent bullets" and that perked his attention! We shot about 15 in my workshop into a bullet trap. It basically sounded like a CO2 pellet pistol! Those dang things are so quiet! I imagine once I make that longer barrel that slips into the existing bore it will be even quieter. Maybe even a little more accurate!

I still can't believe I made a .22 converter for $10 and 2 hours of work, and that it works fabulously. That makes me happy! Best of all it's really simple to operate, my brother is by no means a gunny, but he loaded it and shot it without any problems!

Merry Christmas guys!
~Levi