bigpete wrote:bladeracer wrote:bigpete wrote:You can buy 22 rim fire reloading kits anyway...
Yes, but far from practical, reliable, or cheap, compared to simply priming these.
You know this for a fact ?
I think,if you were going to bother arsing around at all with reloading a 22lr,this would at least be as good or better than mucking around with a centrefire 22lr....
I have never seen a great degree of success from anybody that has tried to reload rimfire ammo, and it is far more involved than loading centrefire ammunition. Some of the more successful efforts I've seen were still under-powered and with poor accuracy, with a 50/50 chance of ignition. It's basically a last-resort SHTF type scenario. I don't know that we could legally make or even possess the priming compound here in Oz anyway.
If you want "better" ammo you can disassemble loaded ammo and load your own charges and bullets, which is an expense on top of buying the ammo to begin with.
I have thought that it wouldn't be all that difficult to punch the rim out a touch to allow removing the dead priming compound and allowing the new liquid to better fill the rim, but it does add even more work to the job.
Using a small-rifle primer you could probably have quite serviceable plinking ammunition without adding any powder. I can see that I'll have to machine some brass.