Forming 17AH from Remington brass?

[spencerhenry]

with rodent shooting season approaching rapidly, i checked my stock of brass. i have 300 winchester brass that are now on load number 3 possibly 4. from what others have said, their brass starts to loosen primer pockets around use #4.
so, i found a guy on this forum with some new 22 hornet brass, remington. while not my first choice, i was glad to get it. but, much to my dismay, i was reading my berger manual and it says that forming loss with remington brass is very high. but, how long ago was the author using remington brass? has the brass changed since then? what if i anneal it prior to any forming?

the brass i picked up is in sealed bags of 100. i thought about forming 20 to see what my results are. if bad, resell the brass, if good, form it all.

thoughts?

 

[MrMajestic]

Anneal after running it through the forming dies. I lost 2 or 3 out of 100 and used a stout load for fire forming. I lost count of the number of reloads on them, 4-5?, and the primer pockets are still tight. I anneal every time and use enough N120 to get 3575 fps with the 20 grain V-Max from my 20" Contender. I have several hundred Privi Partisan I bought from Graf's but haven't needed them yet. I also have WW, work well, and RWS that I haven't formed yet either! Damn Remington won't wear out! ???

 

[spencerhenry]

the 300 winchester that i have were new brass when i started, i formed, fire formed and then annealed. out of 300 i did not lose any in the process. i am only running the 20gr bullet at 3400fps (if my chrono is correct).

good to know about your experience with remington brass. i will give it a shot.

 

[swed6.5]

I really prefer the rem brass it seams to give a little more powder capacity.

 

[spencerhenry]

i formed 100 of them, actually there were 102 in the bag. and then annealed them. i fireformed 5 of them with no issues.