Aluminium cased ammunition

[ovenpaa]

I have the following non CCI Blazer items.

A clip of 7.62 Tokarev adaptors I believe used in adapted TT pistols for training cadets...

I used to have a couple of said clips.....well, the carrier rounds at least.
Twas the very reason the bargain .22 TT33 "Sportowy" pistol was a bargain! (£40, posted to my door)
Insert .22lr cartridge into carrier. Repeat until all 8 are loaded.
Fill magazine & fire 8 rounds.
Spend 20 minutes looking for the empties....repeat process.
Ignore mutterings & giggles from other club members "Now worrafeckazzeeegonanbought..."

Aside from the carriers I thought the Sportowy was cracking...just it used a concept that was too outdated to make it more functional/practical

Did it cycle OK? I never shot one however I did see them at the club, mostly languishing on the bench

[ovenpaa]

I had forgotten about this one (The orange one)

[saddler]

I have the following non CCI Blazer items.

A clip of 7.62 Tokarev adaptors I believe used in adapted TT pistols for training cadets...

I used to have a couple of said clips.....well, the carrier rounds at least.
Twas the very reason the bargain .22 TT33 "Sportowy" pistol was a bargain! (£40, posted to my door)
Insert .22lr cartridge into carrier. Repeat until all 8 are loaded.
Fill magazine & fire 8 rounds.
Spend 20 minutes looking for the empties....repeat process.
Ignore mutterings & giggles from other club members "Now worrafeckazzeeegonanbought..."

Aside from the carriers I thought the Sportowy was cracking...just it used a concept that was too outdated to make it more functional/practical

Did it cycle OK? I never shot one however I did see them at the club, mostly languishing on the bench

Cycled ok. Never had any issues aside from the carriers...fun design while I had it.
It'd have been an easy conversion to centrefire as only the barrel would have needed changing, everything else was standard TT33

[Chapuis]

So far as the old CCI pistol ammunition was concerned, weight wasn't exactly an issue given the intended usage and customers. This initiative was cost, aluminium being much cheaper than brass at that time - I assume it still is even given the vast increase in industrial electricity costs since the '80s.

They were only meant to be fired once and to deter reloading were Berdan primed. An old boy I knew who never threw anything out that could be recycled reloaded them (.38 Special) as a matter of routine having handloaded Berdan primed brass cases for decades, and got all his mates' Blazer 'brass' too. I think he got three or so resizings / firings before they split. Not that cases splitting on firing would bother him unduly - I'd seen him have 10 or more case separations in a day's shooting on Strensall with .303 !!

Good grief you can't save some people from themselves.

Not the sort of chap that you want to be shooting next to or possibly for that matter having as a club member unless he moderated his reloading somewhat. He was an accident waiting to happen by the sound of it.

[Chuck]

CCI Blazer is alive and well...but probably not in the UK.

http://www.cabelas.com/product/shooting ... type%3DGNU

[ovenpaa]

Chuck, CCI Blazer is certainly here in .22LR form, I have a couple of thousand rounds of the stuff and is horrible stuff, very noisy and not particularly accurate however it is fine for plinking at 25/50m when you get used to it.

[Chapuis]

I never understood why CCI used the same brand name (Blazer) for what was originally two totally different lines of ammunition, the one being a high velocity .22 round and the other a cheap non reloadable centrefire pistol range?

I see that CCI have since changed the centrefire ammunition range to also include reloadable brass cases.

In total agreement with you there Ovenpaa as regards the .22 ammunition, great fun when it first came out but horrible stuff and not very accurate in most guns that I have tried it in. Almost as bad as Remington .22 ammo.

[DW58]

The British Army used Aluminium-cased shotgun cartridges made by FN. This came in Brenneke slug and SSG loads and was used in Browning Auto-5 shotguns during the sixties and seventies.

[Chuck]

I've shot the Blazer in .40SW, it worked just fine but it was all close range work. It worked just fine but some locals told me horror stories of extractor claws ripping the "aluminum" (as they call it) casing on extraction.

Can't remember what I used in my GSG5....Actually I think it LIKED Blazer .22 - or maybe it was CCI?? It's too far back to remember.

[ovenpaa]

On the subject of Aluminium cased ammunition I found this link earlier this morning

http://www.shellshocktech.com/#!technology/cjg9