22-454 Casull
 

Ran across a rifle the other day that was kind of interesting. A Ruger #1 chambered for a 454 Casull necked down to a .224 caliber. It was a short fat looking thing. I guess the gun is a real accurate shooter that launches 52 grain match bullets around 4000 fps. Have any of you guys ever heard of such a beast? The owner had the resizing dies and everything to make the new cartridge.

Man, that's got to be a tedious job of reforming brass!

I'd imagine that you'd have to use at least four intermediate sizing dies, and maybe do two anneals to get .454 cases down to a shouldered .224!

Interesting, but what would you get that's better or different than a .22 BR?

I agree. Why not buy a 22BR or even a 22PPC. I actually found an article on the web about this cartridge.

http://www.gunblast.com/Paco_22-454.htm

Not to mention burning out your barrels left and right

As Rocky said, it sounds to me like a tremendously tedious way to get to something similar to a 22 PPC.
It is notable , though, that as soon as a case hits the market, someone's wildcatting it every way possible. And sometimes, the results are worthwhile, like the 22 PPC, the 22-250, 25-06, 7mm-08 and a ton of others.
In this case (no pun intended), though, if it were my Ruger #1, I believe I would have used the 22 PPC, where reamers, dies, and cases were available off the shelf. (yeah, OK, I AM cheap );)

Yes, after all that work, you might get it to hold 38 or so grains of H335, in other words, a 22-250..........

Closer to 30 grains of water capacity, I'd guess. In other words, a 22 PPC almost exactly.

And the 22 PPC doesn't get anywhere NEAR 4000 fps.

At present I have 7 rifles that take some kind of forming to make the brass. I like to play with wildcat, but the onlyreason to have this one is so that you can say I`ve got one that you don`t have.