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04-19-2006, 06:20 PM
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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.
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04-20-2006, 11:18 AM
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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?
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04-20-2006, 11:48 AM
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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
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04-20-2006, 12:06 PM
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Not to mention burning out your barrels left and right
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04-20-2006, 07:42 PM
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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 ) 
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04-21-2006, 02:44 PM
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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.
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04-21-2006, 06:21 PM
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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.
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