holy crap you are fast! Dang, I was expecting higher velocities too! I added this video to the end cards. thanks for doing this!

It's a wonder I'm still alive, I can remember smashing those blanks on the garage floor at five years old with a claw hammer

I have done this with a .22 revolver. It worked great.

Those first three shots are impressive in both velocity and accuracy

Well done and Thank You. I'm Danny, one of the shooters on Jeff's channel. You just gained another subscriber. Looking forward to viewing all of your videos.

Never has a title been so intriguing to me while also being flatly descriptive

Did NOT expect those things to be moving that fast! Really cool experiment.

When I was too young to buy real ammo I used to buy starter pistol blanks which were not as harsh to use as nail gun blanks and shoot Daisy .22 diablo pellets out of a .S&W 22 revolver. I just poked the pellets in the cylinders a little ahead of the blanks and packed some muzzle loading bore butter in the end of the cylinders which seemed to make them more accurate and kept the barrel from fouling. Worked great. I popped a lot rabbits and barn pigeons with it. I still have the revolver and shoot regular ammo in it now and has no abnormal wear on it from my abuse of it as a kid.

Impressive velocities, good follow up to his video.

Really enjoyed this video. I would never have thought to even try this. Thanks

Thanks man great video

Excellent Demo! Thank You!

Ive got a youth rossi .22 break action. Super excited to try this out.

Used to do this a lot in an old Remington nr 4 rolling block. Very easy to load from the breech, extremely accurate as a number of rats could testify were they still alive.. great short range load.

Looked like a fun experiment.

Head spacing is everything.

Great episode Johnny!

Good to know. Pretty neat.

Excellent review thanks very much. I have wondered for some time if nail gun blanks could be used in this way. As children we used to find these on building sites and take them home and put them in a vise and hit them with a hammer. Just wondered how .22 lead balls would perform.

Thanks for doing the testing. This is very helpful. Looks like #3 is the best. I noticed Taufledermaus used a 4" 12ga adapter. I presume my .22lr revolver with 4" barrel would get about the same results.

Winchester 36gr HP .22lr- 130.9 Foot pounds #4 Blank 16.7gr pellet- 176.4 Foot pounds

Your shows are the best

Awesome thanks great work Sir 👍

Seems the lower power had alot more accuracy.. this is a pretty cool study here.. and i appreciate it coming from a reloader that knows all the little nuances thst come with firearm tech, ballistics, flight ect ..cool

I've been wondering if the same could be done with a revolver.

Johnny,you have to admit this sound's crazy my man ,however ....I am really impressed with how well they were grouping! they work...yeeehaw!!!...

Man, great tests! Would you like to test again with 22 airgun slugs? There are many of them hit the market for high power PCP air rifles and seems like they can handle higher velocities very well. :)

150 fpe is plenty of power for hunting. I wonder how many pine boards those zinc tips would make it thro

that was fun! man them things were hauling! ! cool stuff...

Now that looks fun

My jaw dropped when I saw the size of the hand relative to the orange target! Respectable groups!

I have an old bolt action .after seeing this I am curious about breech loading the pellet similar to a break action pellet rifle then using the bolt to push the blank round against the pellet and seat both in the correct spot in the chamber once the bolt is in the home position. My only concern would mostly be the head space if any between blank cartridge and projectile.seems better than starting at the muzzle and like was mentioned distorting the projectile and worse leaving room between the projectile and charge. I really enjoyed this video ,in a last ditch effort that combination could definitely get you out of a tight spot in an out of conventional ammo situation. Impressed by the grouping was kinda surprised how fairly consistent they were even at 50yds. Thanks for sharing.

Loading and shooting looks just like my black powder cap and ball rifles (a lot less messy, however). I'll have to try this with an older target rifle that has target peeps just for the fun of it. Thanks for sharing

Way cool! I might try this with my 10/22.

incredible test, my friend

Pic of the fired casings? Awesome video!

PERFECT IDEA WITH A BOLT ACTION!!

Don't let Diane Feinstein see this !

What a bunch of man boys you are!! LOL Other than the chrony, I did all this stuff in 1973 when I was 12 years old. Thank God there was no KZfaq back then I would have surely won a Darwin award. This is super cool though, getting to see you guys using high speed cameras and chronographs and ballistic gel and stuff... Thanks for sharing, and the entertainment!!

Great video 👍

Those things are moving holy crap

Going on a week without any JRB videos, getting withdrawals!!

Wow, amazing stuff that could work in a pinch if there was ever total shortage of 22LR ammo. Awesome video, thx Johnny.

Good to know if 22's ever dry up again wonder how these would work out of a revolver

im thinking the extra power of the 4 loads are pushing back on the action spring and opening the bolt early.

The Butler Creek magazine can work with 1 nail gun round and 22 short but just 1 at a time

Johnny I don't know how in the hell I miss this video. I swear I've seen everything you put out. But to KZfaq's credit they did suggest it even though it's 3 years late

I am glad you have shown us the difference in power these blanks have. What is the weight of those pellets ?

red power shots are the strongest

Zinc isn't as heavy as lead so it's probably something else with maybe a zinc coating

Wonder if I could use those blanks to practice quick draw in my pistol. Just the blanks.

Wish I still had my drop block ,octagon barrel Stevens single shot to try it out muzzle loading sabot round would not be a big deal at all

I would think the brown colored lowest power load with 14.4 gr. Crosman Copper Magnum Dome might be a good place to start off, having a lighter bullet with a wasp waist skirt would provide stability and proper engagement of the rifling and also might help with your long range key-holing effect on those 16.7gr. Powershot Red Flight Ultra Heavy Penetrators. IMHO

That was interesting. I think I'm going to Lowe's or home Depot to buy me some 22 blanks.

I loaded my in #4, .22 cal. lead, fired from a single shot Stevens Model 15-A and 2414 was my highest, but all were falling in the high 2300s...I did NOT use the ones with plastic; and I super glued the pellet to the .22 blank...great video, thanks

Do we have anyway to model the pressures and identify which barrels are safest to use. Why not be using a single shot break action? Super thick chamber walls on my Rossi Matched Pair.

Did this years ago and broke an extractor on my Remington fieldmaster pump 22, after fixing it I’ve had problems ever since. Also caught that broken extractor to the face

Since your experiment with the crossman pellets solid base and boatail airgun slugs have become available are you up for another go around?

It shot good

The faster the shot the wider the group. That may be due to the skirt of the pallet deforming. I would like to see you do this test with 22 solid air gun pellets.. I believe your velocity would increase and so with your accuracy. There would be no pellet skirt to deform.

I have been a sub for years and how is it that this is the 1st time Iv seen this?

Could you please try these with some bisley magnums

damn johnny you and elvis aren't a good influence on me when i had a few beers in me lol from ELVIS shooting hot melt glue though his pistol with primers now you with blanks in the 22 lol love the videos , keep them coming

I can't wait to try this with my breech load and bolt action riffles. Seems like it would load easier

Clean the bore after each round for better fps. The barrel gets very dirty with each shot.

Might have to try with my Winchester Scout, break down.

Good video mabie some difference with the blanks one of the channels the guy was getting around the 2800 fps Mark with the yellow rammset blanks he was using lead pellets and they were all over the place and the skirts of the pellets kept blowing off need to get me some of that pellets

Would be interesting to see a test out of a Thompson Contender, 14 in. barrel.

are cartridge for nail gun blanks more powerfull than cartridge for sel-defense blank gun ?

Good

I found some very very old short ones in my papaw's shed with the super x

Good vid!

Looks like #2 already do the job? Firing #4 obviously the gun bang with a higher pitch noise, i gurss, just a guess, the plastic sabor already worn out before it leaves the barrel, #2 already good enough to pop the coyote or fox that randomly appear to attack the chicken cobe. afterall, there is the motive question, is this setup cheaper than a box of 22LR? Or more available?

Was he adding them individually, or in a magazine? Because it was one shot after another.

Would your velocities change with a bolt gun?

I have a 22 brake open I did this back in the day when we ran out of 22 ammo

I suspect a shorter barrel will provide higher velocities. Ramset cartridges are designed to move a heavy metal rod about an inch. That tells me they have extremely fast burning powder, because there's no need to keep accelerating that rod past 1 inch. This would explain why the #4's were barely faster than the #3's. The projectile had most likely stopped accelerating while still in the barrel, and the friction on the bore was slowing it down. I suspect a pistol with about a 6 inch barrel will provide the highest velocities.

I have .27 Cal charges. Would I be able to use them in my 22lr mags?

Try the h&r 27.9 grain solid no skirt pellet, pile driver

Should get a break action .22 for pellet pushing!

Hit this video at random and instantly thought that sounds like JRB. Yep. It was. Please do some vids on the mini14 if it fits your schedule. I am shooting Bob's and most of your powder experiences for 223. Thanks for being around.

We used this trick with .22 shotguns (bolt action) garden guns in the UK just put a pellet on the end and it killed a lot of rabbits at longer range.

Still minute of man at 50yds. Could ruin somebody's day. Very interesting video. Thanks!

Why not just breech load then push the blank in behind an ordinary pellet? What's wrong with that?

Good video

No scope, ur eye sight seems good.

The real question is can you use a 22 cal LR in uou ramset? 🤔

I get for better accuracy out of the normal Crossman pellets, those you're using I have never got accuracy out of those with anything, also you want the pellet an inch up into the rifling you can push it up in there with a WD-40 spray nozzle or the likes.

FYI blanks launch cleaning rods out of a M16 nicely.

Is this a pellet gun? Was thinking about trying this with a pellet gun but there’s no foreign pin so I’d have to make one

Wth is this a easter egg video I somehow missed in the 7 or 8 years I have been watching JRB ????!

Holy shit. I didn't know you ever showed your face until I stumbled onto this.

Higher pressure out of a bolt action?

i may try this with my 22lr bolt gun. probably easier to load.

Great u turned a 1022 into a modern musket with a possibility of slam fires

Dose the red ones fit in a bb pistol ?

Lever action pen!!!

deWalt doesnt own a reloading press...... 100% made by one company.....

Could it be that the plastic base disintegrated inside the barrel already and thereby caused the poor accuracy ?

What can u use if you don’t have a .22 gun?