17 Ackley Hornet info please
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Ogre6BR: Try Varmint Al's site at http://www.varmintal.com/arelo.htm#Forming_17 for some forming tips.
I have a tight-neck 14" Bullberry 17 AH Contender barrel and as has been said before, I neck the 22 Hornet brass down with Bullberry's 17 caliber carbide neck die,very cheap, about $25 or so - it's double-ended with an intermediate step before you get to 17 caliber), load the cases with 10.5 grains of H4198 and a small PISTOL primer with a 25 grain Hornady BT, sight it in and go hunting. The fireforming accuracy is plenty good enough to hunt with - I killed a Javelina here in Arizona with one of these fireforming loads, they should be good enough for bunnies, crows, chucks, etc., at all reasonable ranges. Some guys will use the seating die with the seater removed to neck down the cases but I find the inexpensive Bullberry 17 caliber neck sizer-downer to work very well, I think it's worth the money,and I don't have any to spend carelessly either). As with all reloading, start 10% below the load mentioned above and work up SLOWLY in increments no greater than .2 grains. Remember this is a small case and when you are working up a load and increasing your powder charges, .2 grains is a lot. The difference between safety and catastrophic case failure is very small with the 17 AH, keep safety in mind at all times. You can even increase your loads by .1 grain if you want in order to make sure you stay safe. You can often spot careless reloaders, they're the ones with the pirate eye patches, missing fingers or worse. . .don't be one of them, be one of us out there safely having fun!
The small pistol primer seems to produce better accuracy for me than small rifle primers. The case is very small, and doesn't need a lot of fire to get the powder burning. Try it with both primer types and use what works best for you.
Also try http://stevespages.com/172_10.html, the data for the 17 Hornet Improved should work fine for your application.
Good luck!
Hackberry :wave:
I have a tight-neck 14" Bullberry 17 AH Contender barrel and as has been said before, I neck the 22 Hornet brass down with Bullberry's 17 caliber carbide neck die,very cheap, about $25 or so - it's double-ended with an intermediate step before you get to 17 caliber), load the cases with 10.5 grains of H4198 and a small PISTOL primer with a 25 grain Hornady BT, sight it in and go hunting. The fireforming accuracy is plenty good enough to hunt with - I killed a Javelina here in Arizona with one of these fireforming loads, they should be good enough for bunnies, crows, chucks, etc., at all reasonable ranges. Some guys will use the seating die with the seater removed to neck down the cases but I find the inexpensive Bullberry 17 caliber neck sizer-downer to work very well, I think it's worth the money,and I don't have any to spend carelessly either). As with all reloading, start 10% below the load mentioned above and work up SLOWLY in increments no greater than .2 grains. Remember this is a small case and when you are working up a load and increasing your powder charges, .2 grains is a lot. The difference between safety and catastrophic case failure is very small with the 17 AH, keep safety in mind at all times. You can even increase your loads by .1 grain if you want in order to make sure you stay safe. You can often spot careless reloaders, they're the ones with the pirate eye patches, missing fingers or worse. . .don't be one of them, be one of us out there safely having fun!
The small pistol primer seems to produce better accuracy for me than small rifle primers. The case is very small, and doesn't need a lot of fire to get the powder burning. Try it with both primer types and use what works best for you.
Also try http://stevespages.com/172_10.html, the data for the 17 Hornet Improved should work fine for your application.
Good luck!
Hackberry :wave:
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