Has Anyone Tried The .22lr Reloading Kit?

Looks like way too much trouble to do that. If I can't get .22 LR I'll shoot center fire.

I have watched the videos and have looked at the kit. In my personal opinion it is a waste of time as long as I have supplies to load center fire ammo. The time and effort to reload .22LR would be better served reloading center fire, even if I had to recharge primers by hand, which could be done. Hope I never have too.

Seems like a lot of hassle for unreliable ammo.

I barely have time to reload centerfire. .22LR didn't get that expensive!

The only use I can see is in a SHTF scenario as a last resort if you run out of .22LR

Easier to get nail gun blanks and shoot .22 pellets.

To actually answer your question, no, I don't have one and never heard of it until your post.


That looks interesting to me and it would be fun to play around with. There was a time when I would have bought that without a second's thought. Today, I am still tempted, but I am trying to quit blowing money on stuff I don't need; just because it looks interesting.

I hope you buy one and report back to us how you made out with it.

FWIW: I am not sure why they chose to use bullets that light ?????


Edit: Now that I read a little bit about it, and watched the videos, I do remember seeing this at some point in the past. I watched a YouTube video awhile ago where a guy was reloading .22LR but he didn't give any details as to REALLY how it was done. One big question I had was where do you get the bullets ? I also didn't know what they were using for powder or how much. The only thing he talked about in the video I watched way back when was how to prime the cases. Once you posted about this kit and I Googled it, all my questions were answered. It seems like it would be a very tedious process, but it would be cool to do IMO. Some people like to do things just for the heck of it, or to say we have done it. I am one of those people. I also like to try all kinds of weird and oddball stuff now and then. I have done the thing with nail gun blanks, shooting air gun pellets with primed .223 cases, multiple projectile loads, shotshells .......................... I have plenty of ammunition but at the end of the day, I still never loaded a .22LR case and it would be cool to do so, again, IMO

corrosive priming?

.22lr scarce?

Shelves bursting at the seams and bowing in the middle with all the .22lr sitting on them where I live.

See no need to try my fat fingers at reloading .22lr. There are other calibers to test my levels of frustration.

Well, seems like nobody has tried one, or at least nobody on THR. I first saw similar kits in the '60s in a magazine and did a bit of reading. The kit soon died out (.22 lr available everywhere for .59). Labor intensive and I believe the rounds had to be "clocked" in the chamber to avoid hitting the previous firing pin indention. Like most others here, nope ain't used it but read a lot about it on the web...

Like many of the other members here I can reload a couple of my centerfires to "equal" a 22. lr (I have a load of a 123 gr. ball over a bit of Bullseye for a "gallery load" for my .44 Magnums. Outta my Ruger SBH I get 2" groups at 12 yards and no recoil, very little noise. I've also loaded 45 gr. cast bullets in my .223 over Unique and/or WC 820 for .22 lr replacements...

I think it'd be cool to try. I don't fire my 22lr's as much as I use to. Bullets are too expensive for my taste. Glad to see someone trying, it could drive to a better reload kit for 22lr's, wonder what you do about the notches.

The priming compound IS corrosive...

and exactly the same stuff which destroyed so many .22RF barrels after the advent of smokeless powder and before the era of non-corrosive priming.
And the old-timers discovered that you couldn't clean your barrel fast enough, or thoroughly enough to keep it from rusting.
Do what you think best...

PRD1 - mhb - Mike

No, I have not tried it.

Even if the priming compound was non-corrosive, I don't know that it would be worth the trouble to do other than to be able to say that I had done it.

When .22LR was in short supply, my father couldn't get it at all in the little town he lives in. He asked me to get some and bring it on my next visit. It was no more available to me than it was to him. I took him a 50 round box of .223 Remington that I had loaded with 52 grain hollow points and told him to use them since I could easily (and enjoyably) make more.

He did. And I did.

My .223 has taken place of my .22LR, I can load it cheap, its more accurate, can shoot further with more accuracy, cheap to reload and doesn't kick.

I was hording 22LR but I haven't bought any in a year now since I started reloading.

FWIW; an aside and mentioned above. I saw a youtube video of a test of .22 stud gun blanks and airgun pellets. The pellet was inserted in the chamber followed by a blank. The results were surprising. While I don't have numbers, the velocity was higher with the lighter pellet and greatly penetrated more. Single shot only, but it worked...

I too would not to want to work with repriming 22LR brass.

I can down load 22 Hornet using home cast bullets to duplicate 22WMR loads is I need to.

While I'm hording the 800 or so 22LR ammunition I have, I find that I'm using my air rifle a lot more and enjoying it.

As far as reloading corrosive primed poor accuracy rimfire ammunition, count me out.

Steve

If everyone gives up buying that expensive .22 ammo the gouging will stop. THEN the prices will drop back to more normal levels and you will not need to reload .22 LR.

A guy at the range showed me his and said it was a ridiculously long process and definitely not something that he would ever do routinely. He said he was keeping it for emergency use only if there ever came a time when commercial ammo wasn't available and he needed to forage for food, i.e. a SHTF scenario.

I haven't given up 22lr's yet, though I haven't bought any in over six months, I ration the ones I have. 40 rounds in my wife's luger, and 18 rounds in my J-22. When those are out, if I can't get 22lr's for <5 cents a piece, the guns will stay in the gun safe.

philip brousseau said:

corrosive priming?

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Black powder preferred too. Forget about semi-autos. Without meticulous hot water cleaning immediately after use, these reloaded rounds will destroy your rifle.