(interesting) spent .22 case use.

cshold · Post by **cshold** » Wed Apr 02, 2008 11:49 am

Link: http://www.mrpc.info/docs/bultip01.pdf

Post by **Ysabel Kid** » Wed Apr 02, 2008 12:18 pm

Neat idea!

deerwhacker444 · Post by **deerwhacker444** » Wed Apr 02, 2008 12:30 pm

That's thinking outside the box..! That would really upset the Kool-Aid drinkers to know that gunowners and reloaders are going "Green".

chadbr · Post by **chadbr** » Wed Apr 02, 2008 12:31 pm

Very cool.

J Miller · Post by **J Miller** » Wed Apr 02, 2008 2:44 pm

Old technology coming alive again. Good to see it though.

One comment I have to disagree with is his comment that .22s were mecuric up until the 60s. I have seen Winchester and Remington ammo boxes from the 1930s showing non corrosive and non mecuric priming.

Joe

Peter M. Eick · Post by **Peter M. Eick** » Wed Apr 02, 2008 5:26 pm

Isn't that how the Rockchucker press got started? If I remember the story right, they got started swageing 22 lr cases into bullets for rock chucks back prior to WW2.

This is a vague memory that I read that somewhere.

TedH · Post by **TedH** » Wed Apr 02, 2008 5:59 pm

You're correct. Thats how Vernon Speer got started with the component bullets. Later his brother Dick was making primers which eventually became Cascade Cartridge Inc, better known today as CCI.

kimwcook · Post by **kimwcook** » Wed Apr 02, 2008 6:01 pm

That's really cool. I've seen so many spent 22LR casings at the range it always seemed such a waste. Well, now, here ya go. I'm going to have to look into it.

handirifle · Post by **handirifle** » Wed Apr 02, 2008 6:41 pm

deerwhacker444 wrote:That's thinking outside the box..! That would really upset the Kool-Aid drinkers to know that gunowners and reloaders are going "Green".

That's not really "green", cause it's still a lead core.

Sixgun · Post by **Sixgun** » Wed Apr 02, 2008 7:16 pm

kimwcook wrote:That's really cool. I've seen so many spent 22LR casings at the range it always seemed such a waste. Well, now, here ya go. I'm going to have to look into it.

Law dog, Pick those babies up. brass is bringin' close to $2 a pound. Its worth it if your near walking up to your ankles in the brass.

To others--I have shot .223 ammo made from spent .22 cases out of a Mini 14 and an AR-15 Match, they tumbled every fourth or fifth round. Maybe it was not done right. Bought 5 hundred of 'em and threw about 200 in the pond.----------Sixgun

Ron Macy · Post by **Ron Macy** » Wed Apr 02, 2008 7:39 pm

I checked this out now, as I did 40 years ago. It looks really neat but has always been beyond my financial limits. Dummy for never getting a degree.

A fellow I knew had a Corbin press forty years ago that operated horizontally. He made some great 1/2 jacket 45's with it.