Reeder Custom Guns - .22 and Pyrodex P

Just now I loaded a cartridge with a case full of Pyodex P and fired it into my bullet trap ... a pile of wadded up t-shirts. These are screen captures from the video.

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The bullet stopped in the first t-shirt ... not as powerful as the Bullseye load. Here's a closeup of the bullet.

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I'm sure there was a transition from BP, to semi-smokless, to the smokless "HV" era. I bet there were no HV .22 rounds until smokless was common.

You need to make some ultra fine Pyrodex PPP grade. Flour grade to get more in the case.

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The .22 Short was introduced in 1857 by Smith & Wesson.

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It was marketed for self defense too?! Over in Europe they were messing with parlor guns, basically a musket cap with a little RB in it. The origins of the BB Cap? I had a box marked 6mm CB caps once. They shot in .22 though.

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For the Flobert Parlor Rifle .. indoors fun!
CB Cap = Conical Ball Cap

Blackpowder .22 Short had enough power to discourage people. Mark Twain wrote about it: I was armed to the teeth with a pitiful little Smith & Wesson's seven-shooter, which carried a ball like a homopathic pill, and it took the whole seven to make a dose for an adult. But I thought it was grand. It appeared to me to be a dangerous weapon. It had only one fault--you could not hit anything with it. One of our 'conductors' practiced awhile on a cow with it, and as long as she stood still and behaved herself she was safe; but as soon as she went to moving about, and he got to shooting at other things, she came to grief.
- Roughing It

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.22 and Pyrodex P

That looks like WAY too much fun!

I read that all early .22 RF were BP loaded

The .22 rimfire was developed 'way before smokeless powder

How did they get enough BP in there to go bang?!

BB Cap = Breech Ball Cap