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[Mortblanc]

That is one of the things that swayed me from spending too much time with 22 rim-fire in general. That and the low power level.

Back during the first Obama ammo seizure I decided to expand my bullet casting and reloading efforts to the 5.56.

I bought a 45gn bullet mold in .223 and dies to reload the cartridge. I settled on a small charge of pistol powder with the lead bullet and have available a mild shooting, very cheap replacement for the rimfire.

It is not exactly a direct replacement, since it gives about twice the power of a normal .22lr and just a hair above .22wrm.

I have a stockpile of scrap lead purchased for 25 cents per pound and one pound gives me 150 lead bullets. A pound of powder makes 2000 shots and primers are 1.5 cents each bought in bulk. I am estimating less than 2 cents per shot, and that extends to most of my cast bullet reloads in every caliber.

I have one rifle dedicated to use of the low power 5.56 lead bullets. It is scoped and zeroed for that one load and I have not had to adjust the scope in several years. It will not cycle my semi-auto rifles but I don't care, it works fine in my single shot and bolt action rifles.