Boina Roja Enthusiast Karl Dahl on Nostr: I just wanted to try it out If you think about it, the first cartridges were rimfire. ...
I just wanted to try it out
If you think about it, the first cartridges were rimfire. They were never reloaded even back when many people loaded their own centerfire cartridges (as they had been accustomed to muzzle loaders, paper or silk powder preloads, etc.). The design isn't conducive to reloading. I had written instructions and because I already reloaded centerfire cartridges it was conceptually easy. Select your least banged up brass .22LR spent cases, flare mouth of case gently with .223 flaring die, use a nail and small ball peen hammer to uncrush the rim, mix up a primer slurry, smear in rim, add a premeasured amount of appropriate powder, lube cast projo, seat projo as one does with any other cartridge. The "kit" included a cheaply made aluminum shell holder. Two of the three fired fine but one didn't. I gave the kit to a friend because it was pointless
If you think about it, the first cartridges were rimfire. They were never reloaded even back when many people loaded their own centerfire cartridges (as they had been accustomed to muzzle loaders, paper or silk powder preloads, etc.). The design isn't conducive to reloading. I had written instructions and because I already reloaded centerfire cartridges it was conceptually easy. Select your least banged up brass .22LR spent cases, flare mouth of case gently with .223 flaring die, use a nail and small ball peen hammer to uncrush the rim, mix up a primer slurry, smear in rim, add a premeasured amount of appropriate powder, lube cast projo, seat projo as one does with any other cartridge. The "kit" included a cheaply made aluminum shell holder. Two of the three fired fine but one didn't. I gave the kit to a friend because it was pointless