How .22 LR rounds are manufactured

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How .22 LR rounds are manufactured

Post by xl_target » Thu Jul 05, 2012 10:05 am

The .22 LR is one of the most popular rounds in the USA. Millions of rounds are shot every day.
CCI in the US alone produces about 4 million rounds of .22 LR ammo per day at one facility!

Here two short videos detailing the process of manufacture of .22 LR rounds at CCI's Idaho plant.

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Post by miroflex » Thu Jul 05, 2012 10:56 am

Hi,

These are very interesting and informative videos. Many thanks for posting them.

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Post by rraju2805 » Thu Jul 05, 2012 11:44 am

Thanx for posting it.
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Post by timmy » Fri Jul 06, 2012 7:58 am

XL, this was indeed very interesting. I particularly liked the part where it described how the cases were primed, as I often have wondered how this might be done in a production environment. One thing I wished they had shown, but understandably didn't in this rather high-level documentary, was how the seated bullets are crimped by a machine that seats so many rounds at a time.

I sure wish I could have one of those pallets in my garage! 250,000 rounds! That would keep things going for quite some time!

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Re: How .22 LR rounds are manufactured

Post by gladiatorgarg » Sun Dec 23, 2012 11:24 am

Quite informative can you post something on the lethality part of this calibre(.22lr)....thanks in anticipation...

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Post by xl_target » Sun Dec 23, 2012 12:52 pm

Gladiator, I think that is beyond the scope of this thread. Start another one or do a search as there are lots of threads on this forum about that. You can also google your term "lethality of .22LR ammo"
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Re: How .22 LR rounds are manufactured

Post by avtomat » Mon Dec 24, 2012 12:26 pm

Great videos xl next best to be actually present t the factory

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