I have a box of American Eagle stuff. Shot it up and reloaded it.. works just fine
Since you have some experience with the AE ammo/brass, do you think this brass is better, worse, or the same, as the Hornady stuff?
FWIW, I just got off the phone with Federal Ammunition and their American Eagle 17 Hornet ammo is being made by Hornady and uses the same Hornady brass.
FWIW, I just got off the phone with Federal Ammunition and their American Eagle 17 Hornet ammo is being made by Hornady and uses the same Hornady brass.
Thanks for doing the legwork and tracking this down. Honestly, it is what I suspected otherwise why wouldn't they sell it as their own brass.
Yes but .17 cal neck is how much smaller?? Have you swaged any brass?/ There is a support rod that goes inside the brass.. The smallest it takes is .223. Far cry from .17
I tried that but just didn't work very well with my artheritus..Your right, duh. No I don’t swage. I use a chamfer tool
I currently have a collection (250'ish) of 17HH factory ammo brass that I have reloaded several times, using the Federal F205M primers, and they have worked a treat. However, I recently bought a new box of 17HH 25gr, part number 83006. I was about eight rounds into the box when one of the rounds vented out of the primer pocket and damaged the ejector in my Savage M25. I removed the brass with a cleaning rod, cleaned it and tried to re-prime it. But the primer simply drops out. So the brass pocket is oversized.
The damage to the bolt ejector was disappointing. And I really don't want to have to get that fixed again. But I'm not confident in the rest of the rounds in this box. Its strange because the other seven cases re-primed just fine. It just appears to be this one case so far. On closer inspection of the rest of the rounds, the primers appear to be compressed when installed, creating an odd ring between the primer and the pocket wall.
Maybe this was just a one off situation. But I would be keen to hear if anyone else has experienced the primers failing to hold with there current production of factory ammo?
I have emailed Hornady to see if this is a known batch production issue, we will have to see what they come back with. I will stick with using my reloaded rounds for now.
Other than this particular issue, the 17HH is a great round.
Have you ever swaged brass on an RCBS swager? Every one I have used has a rod going inside the case to back up the swager punch.Huh? Primer pockets are the same size as 223.
Yup .. Someone gave me a box that was left in a rental. Was just fineHas anyone shot any of the American Eagle 17 Hornet ammo or the Winchester ammo and reloaded any of that brass???
Wonder if it's all the same or if the American Eagle (aka Federal) or Winchester brass is better, worse, or about the same as the Hornady stuff. Thoughts???
I don't. I have a fused wrist, and won't waste time doing that. Yes I tried it..Your right, duh. No I don’t swage. I use a chamfer tool
All I can say is do not buy Hornaday ammo in hopes of getting some brass. Hornaday factory ammo has a crimp in the primer pocket..
Let me know how that works out.. Been there, dun that, or tried.Never have seen a crimp in any I found. But even if it did I would decrimp it with the small primer tool/swage from RCBS, like I do with Military 5.56 ammo.