During one of the earlier ammo scares, I had good luck shooting pellets out of a .22 Hornet Handi Rifle I owned at the time. That's a fairly common trick, so not something I can claim as my own invention. You just drill out the flash hole a little larger, and thumb press one of the heavier .22 pellets into the case mouth. A standard small rifle primer provides all the giddyup you'll need with minimal noise.

It's pretty easy to blow the skirts off of lighter pellets with just the primer, and adding something like 1.0 grain of Unique will drive the heavier pellets supersonic and generate quite a sonic crack.

Just a thought...

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Patrick Chadwick wrote on Nov 12^th, 2020 at 10:49am:


This is usually the case for most types of single shot rifles. I've found exception to the rule with Ballard rifles. Because of the design and ability of the Ballard breech block to complete seating, I can pull a cartridge out of the chamber and re-insert it and closing the block will finish chambering it.
I've got a couple with .22 match chambers that are very snug, and I don't need to push so hard to get them fully chambered either. Just get them close and let the block finish the job.