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Hey! you don't have a nail gun section! So this'll have to do, at least until you set up a "Devil's Playground" forum (from the "Idle hands/minds are the Devil's playground" proverb)


Right on the box for nail gun ammo it says they are not to be used for firearms. Is this just a legal CYA or are there special issues to consider in using these blanks in guns?

A standard .22 blank for starter guns will send a .22 lead pellet for pellet guns down range just fine. The smallest Ramset .22 ammo is quite a bit longer, maybe close to a LR, so presumably much more powerful. (Well, presumably. I haven't tried to drive a nail using the starter pistol blanks.) But unless they are loaded with some different powder the pressure shouldn't be much different from a .22LR. And if used just as a blank, with no projectile, the pressure should never get even that high.

I'm thinking starter ammo pushing a .22 pellet won't be accurate out to 25 yards, although it will reach that far. So I'll need to go to a bigger blank.

Also, I have an old Stevens Crackshot in .32 Short (rimfire) that I'd like to shoot. I saw somewhere on the internet that rather than go to the effort of converting it to centerfire and using .32 Short Colt (I think that was the CF cartridge that would fit the chamber) you could drill out the base of that cartridge and insert a .27 Ramset blank to drive a shotgun pellet (or maybe it was a lead bullet for a muzzle loader. I don't remember). The .27 rim dia. is close enough to .32 that the rimfire firing pin would reach it and fire it.

I never got around to trying that. I'd like to say it was the warnings on the Ramset blanks that discouraged that idea, but really it was lethargy.

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As long as during the process the phrase, "hold my beer and watch this!!" isn't uttered you should be all right.

Seriously, I'd try it. I'd maybe try some kind of lube on the projectile though. I say that after shooting standard .375" round balls in 38 Special cases. Unlubed, a thorough scrubbing with Lewis Lead Remover closely followed.

BTW, if you shoot a lot of soft lead boolets, a Lewis Lead Remover is a very useful accessory. Brownells dot com sells them. (Brass rod with brass screens to scrape lead but not damage rifling.) SW

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I have a box of ramset that I thought would fit 22 mag but never got around to trying anything with them. Even have a box of 22 wrf.

Rad

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oddly the local hardware outlet here had a large supply of 22cal loads for these on sale the other day - im thinking on buying them up

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You are right, they are 22 cal. I got them from a place I worked at before in did a union bust. I got the to use as blanks.

Rad

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good to know , i did not realize these came readily in 22cal - my old hilti from the 80s was a 27cal , couldnt use those in a rimfire rifle/handgun

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IIRC, airgun .22 groove should be about .219", versus the .222-224" of the rimfire rifle bbl. Splitting hen's teeth? Maybe. I do know that a 16.1 grain JSB Heavy .22 caliber pellet will free fall through the bore of my match chambered Win 52 repro. YMMV. I'm guessing you had a pellet "seat" some what sideways, and your powder charge blew the skirt off the first pellet you tried.

It's been done before, commercially. There was a Mexico out fit that made rifles in both .177 and .22 cal that used air gun pellets, and .22 blank cartridges. Mandall's carried them for a while. They did not gas seal all that well with a pellet port ahead of the blank chamber. My old Gun Digests listed them for about 7 years....

Regards,

Doc Sharptail

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