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Ever hear of reloading the rimfire?
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Posts: 866 | Location: Puget Sound country | Registered: 18 January 2005Reply With Quote
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yeh, Ray we were doin that back in the early 80's with 22 long rifle ammo. Its a lot of work
And not much gain in my opinion.
+ at the time we wre shootinf nra 22 comp and they ( the rule maker ) to use only factory ammos.
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Not exactly "reloading" in the strictest sense.

Now, you can make the priming compound yourself, and as long as you take care to insure that the FP and the previous FP dent don't line up..........

Not practicle for any RF round that you can purchase, but for those that need cartridges for their obsolete RF's, it's something worth thinking about doing.
 
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I've heard of guys pulling the bullets on factory rimfire loads to load tracers, but it always seemed dangerous to me...

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Posts: 4146 | Location: North Louisiana | Registered: 18 February 2004Reply With Quote
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Here is an earlier thread.

Reloading the .22 WMR

6flute found the Sierra 40 grn .22 Hornet bullet the most accurate.
I checked the SAAMI standards and found there is quite a bit of clearance designed in between the min chamber and max cartridge. It looks like accuracy would be helped quite a bit if you had a custom tight chamber reamer made.
 
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