Here is a crazy idea. Has anybody tried loading a 25 Stevens rimfire cartridge using the priming material that is available for .22 rimfire. All you would have to do is make a body die and a ncek sizer and straight line bullet seater. I know some people will think I;m crazy.
Here is why I want to try. When I was a senior in high school in 1961-62 I bought a Marlin pump action Model 27S and three boxes of ammo for the huge sum of $12.50. It was a real clean little rifle.This was the best squirrel rifle that I think I ever owned I was careful not to use the ammo for anything but hunting but when you hunted as much as I did at that age, I ran out pretty soon. I grew up in very rural settings and the only store around said he couldn't get any ammo. There was still some ammo around at this time but I never did get to go anywhere to possibly get some. .Being out of ammo, I traded it to my high school basketball coach In the last few years we have gotten reacquainted and he has agreed to sell me the rifle and close to a full box of ammo I know a lot of you will say why would you want to do this but if you knew the attachment I had to that little jewel, I think you would understand.
Mashburn.
David a. Cogburn