Has anyone come across a use for spent .22 casings? Have a lot of brass after some pest control and target shooting at home, seems a waste to throw it out
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Has anyone come across a use for spent .22 casings? Have a lot of brass after some pest control and target shooting at home, seems a waste to throw it out
Some guys use them to make projectile jackets
They can be useful as a hole punch (just add a hammer) for making extra holes in a leather belt after Christmas. :D
drill a small hole through base, piece of nylon , string them together and they will make a lovely neck lace . Perfect hand made gift for the wife or girl friend for Valentine's day.
They can be used to make 224, 6mm and maybe 25cal bullets.
You could buy kits at one stage that allowed you to reprime them. Ideal for those looking for a challenge
Fishing lures?
Decorative brass rivet?
Repurpose as (crappy) rivets.
Reloading them IS an option.
Scrap metal.
I remember one use for them as a little fella many moons ago..
We'd take the empty 22 case, cut off the heads of matches and stuff the case with them, then bend over end of case with pliers. Then put 'filled' case on the concrete, and smack it hard with a hammer. Boom!! Certainly worked with matches back then - farm boys thought it was a great joke.
Me and a mate are making 224 and 6mm bullets out of them. I'll be happy to grab them off of you?
Im shooting at the TLRS regularly and would be able to pick up.
Beer OK?
we used to do the same as kids , but had to stop (ohhh muuum ?!!?) after a few to many shrapnel injuries (only small cuts, no lost limbs that I can remember)Quote:
Originally Posted by mudgripz
Good question OP. Got me interested...and found this...
https://castboolits.gunloads.com/sho...tart-to-finish
Give to kids for whistles, the brass does wonders to your lips:D
We used to sit in the shed and hit the end of the cartridge with a small hammer, the projectile would bounce around the shed
Maca49...you must be like me then.
Did you also make 'bolt bombs' with 2 bolts screwed together with a nut and the nut first primed with match heads before screwing the 2nd bolt in?
Big bolts were best!
Throw the whole thing up in the air and run (or duck).
If it all landed just right there was a very nice 'boom' and bolts and nut separated to fly their own path (and not take out your playmates).
Modern youth has so much to learn.
Those were the years when we had very few toys. Whatever fun you had, you often had to make alot of toys yourself. Bows, arrows, shanghais etc...and some of the games with 22 cases etc were certainly none too safe. I remember the cases went off with a nice bang with a smack from the hammer, and I remember the bolt bombs too - though I didn't do them. Seem to remember we tried smacking an old 303 case full of match-heads too - can't recall what happened. Cousin lost an eye building some sort of bomb - so that put the kibosh on that one!!
I do remember finding couple of nests full of old rotten duck eggs, so little mate and I waited up a bank in the scrub for the local Waikato Times paper delivery car to come past under us. Perfect shot. As he came through cutting he got about a dozen rotten eggs across windscreen and bonnet. Splattered everywhere - hell of a mess - man it would have stunk! He's out of the car swearing like hell while two little 8 years old scarpered through the bush back to the home - laughing fit to bust. Got away with it too... What country boys did before the internet... :)
However....whacking 22 cartridges in the vice has to get a prize. Strewth that's unsafe - surprised most of us made it... :)
We used to use those paper caps used in cap guns. Just keep folding the caps up until you had enough to fill the gap between the bolts. We couldn't always get matches.Quote:
Originally Posted by Grey Kiwi
Yep, done the bolt bombs but back when matches where real matches. Also train tracks weren't only used for flattening coins...someone back in the day had a bright idea that if 22's lined up on the track will sound like a machine gun.
My dad had a schoolmate lose his life to one of those bolt bombsQuote:
Originally Posted by Slug
Hot tip: Tie a strip of rag around the head of one of the bolts, (a) gives you something to swing the assembly around before letting it go so you get more hight and (b) tends to cause the assembly to more reliably land end-on thereby making detonation more likely!:DQuote:
Originally Posted by Grey Kiwi
Genius. I just eyeball dropped them off bridges onto railway tracks.Quote:
Originally Posted by Finnwolf
Is it not a grandparent’s duty to spoil grandchildren, teach them bad habits, encourage them to swear and to inform them of all of the things that annoy their parents? Do you mean to say that I have been getting it wrong? My grandsons seem to find it amusing.Quote:
Originally Posted by 7mmwsm
Or winding the bolts too tight while in the vice,my chin still has the scar 40 yrs later..Quote:
Originally Posted by muzza
Some kids at my high school tried that one. It made front page of the paper.Quote:
Originally Posted by Slug
Swaging used rimfire cases and loading them was the foundation of Speer ammo company.
Ha! Those of us old enough would remember the days of real fireworks like Double Happies and their bigger variety Thunderflashes.
I, along with my cousins would cut short lengths of copper pipe the same diameter as the cracker and about 12" long, then crimp one end around a nail leaving a small hole. Thread a piece of cotton through the hole, tie it to the fuse then pull the cracker down the tube so the fuse poked out of the hole. Slide a ball bearing wrapped in toilet paper down on top of the cracker and light the fuse.
My old man took most of the skin off my arse when I shot a hole in the drivers door of his brand new Vauxhall Victor 101
Yeah. Guy Fawkes was fun blowing up spuds and such with those.
Got an xray coming up? Swallow 10 for lols
You Guys are cracking me Up, (bolt bombs) made me realise how much mischief (fun) it was growing up in the 60s. Different world than today and thats a shame, afterall we all grow up straight and true. Good Stuff
Battery powered toys... Pffft! If you truly hate someone, buy their kid a drum set!Quote:
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Better than a bloody recorder!Quote:
Originally Posted by Bol Tackshin
yup a drum set and a coupla of cokes better than TV
In our relationship I’d most likely have a somewhat unimpressed partner, an iron would get me more brownie pointsQuote:
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Would love a set of carbide swaying dies to do this…Quote:
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