Reloading empty cases

I have a Webley & Scott No 3 garden gun for shooting rats around my poultry shed. It’s very effective, but the cartridges are expensive. Is it possible to reload the empty cases?

In a word, no. Once a rimfire cartridge has been fired, there is no way of replacing the priming compound contained in the rim.

The Indigenous Americans used to improvise by pushing fragments of red match heads into the cartridge rim, but I suspect their reloaded ammunition was never reliable.

It would be possible to convert your gun to .38 centrefire, but the cost of that would outweigh any savings you might make on cartridges. BH

It’s not always easy to reach a rabbit once your ferret has located it John Emms’s A Stag at Bay; he frequently painted the New Forest Buckhounds RELOADING