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Juan Lago
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First, my condolences to you rimfire faithful that have to chase lot number ammo like fine wine vintages to find a "year" your pretty lady likes.
As I make the rounds with about 15 combos of brand, bullet, and "vintages" (lot #s) in Horn. 17HMR, I have encountered another complication, split necks and shoulders. I've contacted the well know manufacturer, and their response is I have old ammo (‘02 & ‘03), and the brass has become brittle; call to make arrangements for exchange. I've been shooting and reloading almost 50 years, and have occasionally run into CF cases which produced body splits, but they were 30 or more years old. In this case I'm suspicious the 17HMR were either not annealed or the bass sufficiently ductile when these case’s shoulders were formed. Anyone have any input or similar experience on this?
Second question is why primed rimfire cases aren’t available to permit handloading. Would allow bullet, powder, and charge variation, also OL to allow fine tuning instead of hanging an extra third of a pound on the barrel etc. What am I missing? Is it an issue with the primer compound being too sensitive for reloaders to work with?
Another frustration. I still own my first rifle, a Rem 550 autoloader used for many years and many chucks. While in high school and void of much in the way of power tools I spent untold hours hand sanding and polished the metal works to remove all tooling marks, applied a nice pleasing Belgium satin blue from Herders, restocked with a very high grade fiddle back walnut stock once a part but orphaned from an inexpensive JP Stevens gun (that for sure happens no more), and applied a G66 urethane spray finish on par with the finish found on Browning Superposed shotguns. Now retired, I have revisited that old but beautiful friend, and so for cannot find "modern" ammo, regular, high speed, or match, which will provide the inch or less accuracy at 100 yards produced by the Rem. HS hollow points from the '60s, of which about 75 rounds is all I have left. MADDENING!!!
As I make the rounds with about 15 combos of brand, bullet, and "vintages" (lot #s) in Horn. 17HMR, I have encountered another complication, split necks and shoulders. I've contacted the well know manufacturer, and their response is I have old ammo (‘02 & ‘03), and the brass has become brittle; call to make arrangements for exchange. I've been shooting and reloading almost 50 years, and have occasionally run into CF cases which produced body splits, but they were 30 or more years old. In this case I'm suspicious the 17HMR were either not annealed or the bass sufficiently ductile when these case’s shoulders were formed. Anyone have any input or similar experience on this?
Second question is why primed rimfire cases aren’t available to permit handloading. Would allow bullet, powder, and charge variation, also OL to allow fine tuning instead of hanging an extra third of a pound on the barrel etc. What am I missing? Is it an issue with the primer compound being too sensitive for reloaders to work with?
Another frustration. I still own my first rifle, a Rem 550 autoloader used for many years and many chucks. While in high school and void of much in the way of power tools I spent untold hours hand sanding and polished the metal works to remove all tooling marks, applied a nice pleasing Belgium satin blue from Herders, restocked with a very high grade fiddle back walnut stock once a part but orphaned from an inexpensive JP Stevens gun (that for sure happens no more), and applied a G66 urethane spray finish on par with the finish found on Browning Superposed shotguns. Now retired, I have revisited that old but beautiful friend, and so for cannot find "modern" ammo, regular, high speed, or match, which will provide the inch or less accuracy at 100 yards produced by the Rem. HS hollow points from the '60s, of which about 75 rounds is all I have left. MADDENING!!!
