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Old 08-07-2016, 04:58 PM
Ackman Ackman is offline
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From 10.8 to 12.0 gr. depending on the powder........WW680, AA1680, AA2200......and a 20gr bullet. All on varmints. Silly to waste powder/primer shooting toilet paper while fireforming.

Edit: That's with 17AH. With the HH use a bit less of the same powder.

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Old 08-07-2016, 11:12 PM
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I like using bullets for my fire forming loads,...... And ground squirrels.
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Old 08-08-2016, 04:45 AM
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My .17 Hornet cases are formed from WW cases using 11.2 grains of 1680 under a 20 grain "Varmint Nightmare X-treme" bullet which are Midsouth's cheap bulk bullet but gophers don't know that . WSR primers for what it's worth.
Forms the cases well, quite accurate and splatters gophers like the dickens. No more "Staked Primers", tapered primer pockets etc, what a disappointment that was.
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Old 08-08-2016, 11:26 AM
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My .17 Hornet cases are formed from WW cases using 11.2 grains of 1680 under a 20 grain "Varmint Nightmare X-treme" bullet which are Midsouth's cheap bulk bullet but gophers don't know that . WSR primers for what it's worth.
Forms the cases well, quite accurate and splatters gophers like the dickens. No more "Staked Primers", tapered primer pockets etc, what a disappointment that was.
Who told you about my gopher shooting?

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Old 08-08-2016, 02:40 PM
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I just figured all you Dickens did that .
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Old 08-11-2016, 05:55 PM
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Hello, all. I've been reading the threads on 17HH for about 8 months now, but only just got my account activated. It's nice to join the community.

For fire forming I'm using 9.8gns of N120 with a 20gn vmax. It's a reasonably low load I know that, but produces a tad under 3000fps - so that's 17wsm territory and plenty good enough for forming the cases provided a seat a tad longer and set the false shoulder right so the case it a slight crush fit in the chamber.

I anneal the cases before fire forming. In fact I built an annealing machine to help automate that process. 100 cases takes around 10 minutes to do.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Au0wS9zFFzI

(my thumb in that video has been pinned back together after an accident).
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