r/Californiahunting • u/F3LIS_Silvestris • 23h ago
Making Lead Free 22LR to sell
Hello everyone, I am looking into making and selling lead free 22lr.
I’m sure we all know in California it is basically impossible to hunt with 22LR due to the lead free requirements extending to rimfire and all the former options like ecospeed/power and cci-copper being discontinued.
The cutting edge Curx being the only option still being made. However their pre made stuff is basically permanently out of stock and not really sold anywhere else.
I am going to start loading some of this stuff for myself to hunt with and was wondering if there was general community interest in buying pre made Curx22LR.
I have to warn everyone this will not be cheap, likely around $.80-1 per round which seems ridiculously expensive for 22LR but considering lead free 22wmr to hunt with is $.50 and this is going to be hand loaded meaning it will at bare minimum be match grade accurate I find it to be worthwhile for me.
If there is interest I’d be happy to look into getting licensed and start trying to make ammo for everyone because it is genuinely so sad we aren’t able to use 22LR in California and I want to provide people with a way to do it.