I bought a bubba'd Cadet rifle years ago cheap in .218 Bee It had been converted using a Rem 513 .22 RF barrel. I had it rechambered to Mashburn Bee and it shoots the Hornady .22 Jet .222 bullets really, really well. I bought up about 700 of them whenever I saw some. However the firing pin is so small and needle shaped that it pierces the primer in about half the cases!
I bought a new firing pin from Gun Parts and when I tried to install it I found that the breach block had been modified to accept the skinny firing pin????
Other problem is fire forming the Bee case to Mashburn cases stretches the cases at the head. Maybe I need to form the cases using COW before loading bullet?
The rifle has been in the closet for about 10 years and I wonder if it is worth it to keep trying to get it to work or rebarrel it to .357 Max or Mag, and have the new firing pin fitted to it?
RCBS wants $100 for Mashburn Bee dies and a Green Mtn .357 barrel is about the same price.
Or, should I just send it down the road for a couple of hundred?