Firing a .22 Airgun Pellet from a .222 rem centrefire

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Bavarianbrit

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I fancy trying this.

My idea is to bump down .223 cases to .222 rem shoulder dimension giving then a longer neck to get the pellet closer to the leade. I drilled out the rear primer opening for taking 209 primers as per the video so I could load the pellet from the rear and would be getting 19 ft-lbs.
Accuracy is an unknown but my Blaser combination should give a good account of itself.
We retirees have to find new ways to keep the brain active.
 
reiver said:
I used to use .22 Daystate 40gr? pellets in my hornet with 4-6 grs of 2400 behind them great fun
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Same with my .22KH firing those big, heavy (for airgun use anyway) .22 RWS "Rabbit" bullet shaped pellets, but with less powder os they stripped in the rifling. If kept below the speed of sound they do make a fairly respectable, quiet subsonic round for close in bunnies! Probably good for those damned grey tree rats too, but haven't been using this mod for some time now... Might resurrect this option again now that you have stirred my imagination again!!

Tinkering with things like this is nearly always fun isn't it "reiver"??

ATB ...... and shoot safely.
 
177 pellet fits nicely (Upside down) in the neck of a 17 Rem. or other 17 cal case.
Think we used to put couple of grains of Red Dot in the 17 REM case, but primer alone would fire the pellet.
Fired at hard surfaces the pellet would turn inside out and end up looking like a washer.
Ken.
PS. Modified T.A.C.s with I Shooting primer were quite good, so I was told.
 
Use the right pellet! To light and you can blow the head off the pellet. It's not fun getting any stuck lead rings out of the bore. The primers tend to foul the bore heavily too.

You will probably end up wondering why you bothered in the first place when an airgun or 22 does it so much better.
I did with .30 too. Round ball.
 
This takes me back to the little brass canon I made when I was an apprentice. It had barrel about 4" long which was drilled to take a 5/16 ball bearing. I bored a small hole in the other end as a touch hole and then tried it with the some powder from a 12 bore cartridge. It went Phut and that was it.
So i took the powder out of three shotgun primer caps and put this in the hole and lit it. The ball bearing shot out and punched a hole in the door of my dads shed about 5 metres away and I went in and changed my pants. :lol:
 
I did it with my hornet so I could shoot on the club 25 Mr indoor range and they were fun on ferals in and around the farm buildings
 
There's always and excuse for another rifle! I bought five or so years ago a BSA Scorpion T-10 in .177" and had it regulated by Phil at The Ratworks. It is superbly accurate. I also had a Scorpion T-10 in .22" (that I didn't have regulated). Apart from the PITA of refilling the diver's tank I'd recommend a good PCP to anybody. Mine are/were both UK 12 ft/lbs specification but if you could get say a .22" or even .25" on an FAC or in countries where legal that same performance you'd have a good tool.
 
I have two PCPs a logan .22 and an AGR but they are not really up to it and I am just interested to see if it works, ballistics have always interested me.
 
In Germany, the power limit is 7.5 Joules = 5,53172 ft-lbs.. More than that and you need a firearms license. No airgun hunting is allowed.
 
Tried this this afternoon with my .223. Using the small rifle primer to propel the pellet, I had to aim about a foot high to hit the spinner at the bottom of my garden 15 yards away. Less noise than an air rifle.
I might have to try it with shotgun primers.
 
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