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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 Last edited by Jim D; 12-17-2022 at 04:07 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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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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I spent some Quality time with my Bonanza "M" beam.
Sorted into four groups. |
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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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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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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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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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Were the weight sorted bullets impact location as varied as the groupings? Thanks for the information. Allen |
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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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