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Old 12-17-2022, 03:51 PM
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Default Hornady 17 cal. Rejects

Recently I picked up a couple of bags of of Hornady 17 cal. 17 gr. Rejects, sold by High Plains. These came from an estate auction.



They are Vmax with a boat tail.
Any one have experience with these ?
I checked diameters of several, and they were .172 as stated.
I weigh sorted them, and that appears to be the reason for rejection.

I'm planning on feeding these to my 17 Fireballs.

Thanks in advance !

Jim

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Old 12-18-2022, 02:02 PM
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I have not shot any of those reject bullets, and due to the various weight flux, I would think that for a top notch accuracy you will loose some, however with that said, I bet they will shoot better than you my think and will give you some fun shooting in your FB's, that the difference will not really matter, for the price invested.
I would just go ahead and have fun, with them.
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Old 12-18-2022, 10:09 PM
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On some cold winter day, weight sort and enjoy. I have a bunch of 17 grain Vmax, 17 grain hp and 20 grain xtp's to try out. I plan on loading them for my N.E.F. conversions.
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Old 12-19-2022, 01:38 AM
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I spent some Quality time with my Bonanza "M" beam.
Sorted into four groups.
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Old 12-19-2022, 06:47 PM
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I bought a bunch of 22 cal seconds. Same issue, weight. They do need to be sorted to get decent accuracy. The ones I got had a max spread of 5 grains on a 55 grain bullets. When you figure most Vmax are max spread of 2 or 3 tenths that is quite a variation. Unsorted they were all over the place, as in +5" groups. Sorted into 1 grain, under 1 MOA, sorted to .5 grain I could get them near 1/2 MOA. For the gun I was using them in, neither are very good groups, but considering how cheap they were, they were fine for whacking gophers.
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Old 12-19-2022, 10:04 PM
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Extreme spread on my sorting, showed .02 spread.

the 4 groups are about .005 spread between each group. Two middle groups equal about 75% of them.

I'll be waiting until Spring to load these up.
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Old 12-20-2022, 02:06 PM
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Extreme spread on my sorting, showed .02 spread.

the 4 groups are about .005 spread between each group. Two middle groups equal about 75% of them.

I'll be waiting until Spring to load these up.
Well if those bullets are within 2/100ths of a grain then those should not need any sorting. That is far tighter than most bullets on a normal basis.
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Old 12-20-2022, 04:14 PM
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when i sorted mine, they ranged from 16.96 to 17.30 grains with most at 17.06, 17.08 and 17.18. presorting groups were not good and have not had an opportunity to shoot.
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I bought a bunch of 22 cal seconds. Same issue, weight. They do need to be sorted to get decent accuracy. The ones I got had a max spread of 5 grains on a 55 grain bullets. When you figure most Vmax are max spread of 2 or 3 tenths that is quite a variation. Unsorted they were all over the place, as in +5" groups. Sorted into 1 grain, under 1 MOA, sorted to .5 grain I could get them near 1/2 MOA. For the gun I was using them in, neither are very good groups, but considering how cheap they were, they were fine for whacking gophers.
Interesting results Dean

Were the weight sorted bullets impact location as varied as the groupings?

Thanks for the information.

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Old 01-02-2023, 02:09 PM
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Interesting results Dean

Were the weight sorted bullets impact location as varied as the groupings?

Thanks for the information.

Allen
Yes the POI varied by the weight of the lot, which meant you had to slightly adjust your scope as you went up the lots in weight.

Just for fun I weighed some 25 grain Hornady 17 cal Vmax yesterday. I could not see any difference on a balance beam. 40 weighed on my Gem scale ran from 25.02 to 25.09, so at .07 ES less than a tenth of a grain extreme spread. These aren't match bullets but easily shoot in the .2s out of my 17 Fireball.
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