bullets farthest apart. In addition to the soft polymer tip, the FTX has a high antimony core, and the jacket has the InterLock ring for reliable penetration and good expansion. It has a 22-inch barrel with a 1:14 twist, and it wears is a Traditions 3-9X 40mm scope. The .223 Rem can benefit from all the case prep tricks, but good accurate .223 Rem varmint ammo has few secrets. I have now owned five different .17 Remingtons and served my apprenticeship on the reloading table and in the field to see just how these mini-torpedoes tick. a whopping 8" at 150 yards. 24.0g of IMR 4350 with a Rem 7 1/2 (Warning do not use a thin cup primer with the 17 Remington) 25g bullet = 4100+ Decopper your barrel frequently, use good bronze bristle brushes often and throw them away after 100 strokes. A check of the Hodgdon Reloading Center website shows good velocities with Varget, IMR 4320, IMR 3031, H4895, and several others. I have found that Alliant RL15 has been the most consistent and accurate powder to use. These are 5-shot groups fired at 100 yard targets. The Shooting 20 of those cartridges is enough fun for a day. Accuracy for a charge of 44.0 grains of LVR was excellent at 0.90 inch. The 17 Rem. his or her individual rifle. All rights reserved. Last edited by obaro; 04/10/20 09:18 AM. The CZ 7.62x39 grouped three Hornady 123-grain Spire Point bullets in .69 inch with LT-32 and into 1.05 inches shooting LT-30. of Israeli Defense Forces, joins David Fortier for an exclusive interview for Shotgun News. Standard Large Rifle primers are perfectly adequate for the .35 Rem., as most powder charges are in the 40- to 45-grains range. tried to do our shooting on calm days. 2023 Outdoor Sportsman Group. The most unusual result from our chronographing is that BP-B2. The data guide lists .223 Remington loads for A-2495 with 80- and 90-grain bullets. Is it actually possible to get IMR or varget powders in Australia, ive never really seen them???? can also be quite accurate. Choose the most accurate and effective bullet weight in your own gun. at 4,300 fps and is zeroed two inches high at 100 yards, it is dead on the money at 300 yards. Deer seasons in the UK. Uniform case lengths aid this process. Ackley created his first .17 caliber wildcat by necking down the .30 Carbine case. Though, as with all the .17 bullets, if you push them too fast, too soon, the high rotational spin in flight can cause the bullet to disintegrate before it reaches the target. I've used IMR 4350 and IMR 4831. A World Record Attempt: Practice Round and Media Day, Interview with Israeli Defense Forces, Part 1. Following is a brief description of each of the five can also be quite accurate. Trump being classless, tasteless and clueless as usual. 5. Best of luck with the Cooper Rifle. Five loads with A-4064 and 40-, 50- and 55-grain bullets in the .22-250 averaged .68 inch for five-shot groups. But he became best known for the development of wildcat and improved cartridges bearing his name. Future Publishing Limited Quay House, The Ambury, Bath BA1 1UA. We have found the accuracy potential of all three cartridges to be excellent and essentially the same. 165 yards, for a MPBR (+/- 1.5") of 165 yards. British deer: A guide to identifying the six species found here and where to stalk them, Choosing the right bullets for deer stalking. Rob. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding. AVERAGE GROUP SIZE WITH MOST ACCURATE BRAND OF AMMUNITION. The trim die squeezes the neck down to .17 caliber, and its hardened surface allows squaring up the mouth of the case with a fine-tooth file. Both LVR and H4895 shot well, and the velocities in the Outfitters 22-inch barrel were only marginally faster than in the Model 336s 20-inch barrel. And it was even chambered in the Winchester Model 70 bolt action, the Marlin Model 336 lever action, the Mossberg Model 479, the Savage Model 170 pump gun, and the Traditions Performance Firearms Outfitter G2 break-action single shot. AVERAGE GROUP SIZE WITH MOST ACCURATE BRAND OF AMMUNITION. ammunition manufacturers for chronograph testing. With the smallest I always have space for at least one .17 Remington rifle because, for sub-200-yard fox and varmint shooting, I can think of no other faster, effective and safe round. It can be loaded in the .22 Hornet and in the .223 Remington with 55-grain and lighter bullets. Most .17 caliber bullets are much lighter than those of .22 caliber, and that makes them greatly dependent on high velocities for quick kills on varmints. The catalog 100 yard velocity is 1900 fps and the 100 yard (Several gun experts of my acquaintance think the likelihood of such an explosion is slight, but why take a chance?). During fire-forming the case will headspace on its rim and the shoulder will be moved forward to the Ackley position. I use IMR-3031 with a Hornady 25grHP bullet. The newest loading manuals, such as Speers Number 15 and Hornadys 11th edition, list loads for a bunch of new powders, so I had to give them a whirl. Without the proper cleaning kit some shooters just left their barrels dirty and through this the stories of inaccuracy and bore-erosion started. To get started, click the link below to visit mymagnow.com and learn how to access your digital magazine. Walther's new Performance Duty Pistol is ready for both concealed carry and conventional service situations. If the rifles are compared based on the average group size achieved with their favored brand of ammo the results are as follows. (Both 15-grain and 18-grain bullets can be loaded faster but you are restricted by barrel length to achieve velocities and erratic bullet performance, blow-ups for instance.). I find that the 25/06 can use any powder that falls between number 112 (IMR 4350) and number 137 (Retumbo) depending on the bullet weight. Shooting reloads may void any warranty on your firearm. Chamfer and deburr the mouth of the case, run it through the full-length resizing die and the case is ready for fire forming with a reduced powder charge (I use a 20-grain bullet seated over 11.0 grains of H4198). extreme spread 92 fps; average = 2595 fps. Its the same powder as Ramshots X-Terminator. It was the most accurate rifle and load I ever used. Thus, the judicious reloader should not try to soup up handloads. Good factory-loaded .22-250 ammunition is offered by Black Hills, Federal, Hornady, Remington, and Winchester. Tried a couple of mid range loads and velocity was way high for the loads. Except for the CCI A17 load, all brands claim a muzzle velocity (MV) of 2525-2550 fps and in our chronograph testing actually delivered average MVs of 2550-2650 fps, depending on the load. group 1-3/4"; mean average group = 1-1/8". It has a 20-inch barrel with Marlins Micro-Groove rifling and a 1:16-inch twist, and it wears a Cabelas Pine Ridge 3-9X 40mm scope. Groups hover around an inch at 100 yards. Velocity was instrumental 15 feet ahead of the muzzle. vs 9.3x62 Cartridge Clash, 11 Top Hunting Rifles Chambered in .350 Legend, Remington .50-70 Rolling Block History: New York's Pick to Arm Its National Guard, Sweet Scents of Gun Solvents and Oils: 12 Perfumes for Firearms, 10 Great .22 Mag Bolt-Action Rifles Right Now, Kimber Hunter Pro Desolve Blak - A Lightweight Heavy Hitter, Browning BLR Lightweight '81 Stainless Takedown Lever Rifle, Mossberg Patriot Predator 6.5 PRC Rifle Review, Review: Springfield Armory M1A Loaded Rifle in 6.5 Creedmoor, RCBS ChargeMaster Lite Review: Not 'Lite' on Ability, Remington Model Seven SS HS Bolt-Action Rifle Review. Joined: Dec 2015. This short-cut, single-base extruded rifle powder competes with H-4350 and IMR-4350. There are many .35 Rem. Location. like the weather in Eugene, wait a while and it will change.) This is using the 25 VMAX and Benchmark. I picked up a rifle that I've been wanting for a long time: a 700 Classic in 17 Remington. The .17 Winchester Super Magnum (.17 WSM) is based on a Winchester .270 commercial nail gun case necked down to accept .17 caliber bullets. Hornady Load Data. All recorded groups are fired from a solid bench rest at an outdoor rifle range. . CCI TNT: smallest group 1/2"; largest group 2-1/4"; You can also check in our bullet database for which Hornady bullets we offer . With the Adaptive Tactical Tac Hammer barrel on a good, tight Ruger 10/22, these results are possible at a long 100 yards. This may have had a little to do with the wind because the group was strung out left to right a little bit. consisted of 5-shot groups at 100 yards. and similar-sized cases is good ol H4895. FEDERAL Premium V-Shok: high 2631 fps; low 2539 fps; The CCI A17 load uses a 17 grain Varmint Tip bullet at a The 6.5 bullets have very high ballistic coefficients and sectional density for their weight. blank range (MPBR), allowing a 1.5" deviation above and below the line While the accuracy with most of them was okay, the velocities of some of these powders were pretty lackluster, and these loads are shown mostly for reference only. Hornady 123-grain Spire Point bullets loaded over LT-32 and fired from a CZ 527 7.62 x39 formed this 100-yard group. Loading up This load shot a 1.05-inch group at 100 yards, with four of the bullets in .61 inch. CCI's published 100 yard If the rifle is accurate, one really has to be "off the playing field" to assemble handloads that won't shoot. Thats why, even today, people who talk of the .17 say it dirties barrels, burns out barrels and is affected by the wind because of the lightweight projectile. 2525 fps and muzzle energy (ME) of 241 ft. lbs. |
smaller (3-5/16" diameter) bullseyes on each target, which we thought I had some trouble with the 25 grain vmaxes, even though i have a 1:9 twist. After that, the die is set for head-spacing on the shoulder of the case. All shooting for record Based on reloading die sales at RCBS, Ackleys .17 Hornet Improved is still one of the most popular cartridges of its caliber among varmint shooters. 1 Single-Shot Rifle: Tips to Improve Its Accuracy. All in all, the fine old .35 Remington continues to hold its own in the midst of new competitors. We will continue to update this list as new rifles are reviewed and additional data becomes available. Following are the Average Overall Group Size test results for the various .17 caliber rimfire rifles reviewed by Guns and Shooting Online (measured in inches). One of the most economical options for a .17 HMR rifle that can still deliver hails from Brazil. Drifts at 300 yards in a 10-mph cross breeze are 14 inches for the .17 Hornet versus 11 inches for the .223 Rem. That pair shot five bullets well under .5 inch the best the old Swift rifle has shot any load. Beth Shimanski of Savage introduces their all new straight-pull rifle. Combine it with a hollow point or polymer tip bullet, and varmints and other small game don't stand a chance. The full-page lead photo was filled with two hunters, one tiny rifle and a huge Alaskan brown bear wearing a hide that surely squared 10 feet or better. U.S.-made A-2700 is a medium-burning, double-base spherical powder suited to the .22-250 Remington, .220 Swift and .243 Winchester. At 100 yards, which is a realistic distance at which you are going to shoot, the velocity has bled off to 3,010fps and the energy figures have plummeted to just over 302ft/lb, which is more than half the available energy lost before it reaches the target at 100 yards. Accurate 5744 and Berger 40-grain Varmint bullets at 2,438 fps shot this group at 100 yards. Our .17 M2 ammunition includes Hornady, Remington and CCI brands, all using a 17 grain bullet at an advertised MV of 2100 fps. There is a great deal of variation in .22 Hornet brass. The 20-grain bullet can be pushed to over 4200 fps, and the 25-grain bullet breaks the 4000 fps mark, as well. is the only one of those four Remington rounds still in production, although few rifles have been chambered for it of late. H-4350 shot the bullets 98 fps faster than Accurate and 43 fps faster than IMR. Considering that I can't get anywhere close to the lands, I think this about the best I can do. When I began testing .22 Long Rifle rifles and ammunition for accuracy, good results were a two-inch group at 50 yards. A number of the cartridges were Ackleys designs while the others had been sent to him by various other developers for inclusion in his two-volume Handbook For Shooters & Reloaders. The early 1900s were an important period for cartridge development. By this same token, if the bullets jacket is too hard then controlled and predictable expansion on target can not be relied on, which it needs to be if it is to withstand the friction and heat generated when fired at hyper-velocity. The subcompact GLOCK 42 carries 6+1 rounds of. The 7mm Remington Magnum was introduced in 1962 along with the new Remington Model 700. It is my fox calibre/combination of choice and, when fed 25 grains of my beloved RL15, that elongated needle of a projectile steps out just shy of the 4,000fps mark at 3,975fps still good enough. at 3,400 fps and zeroed the same is down three inches at 100 yards. H322 w/ 50 gr. REMINGTON Premier AccuTip-V: high 2626 fps; low 2591 After firing many rounds through a Marlin Model 336, I have to say that LVR is far and away the best powder for this cartridge, but there are several other propellants that also work well. average velocities than called for by the factory specifications. The 220-grain version is a great choice for heavier gameat modest ranges, of course. different .17 HMR rifles (two Marlin Model 917VS rifles, Ruger Similarly, the 18-grain bullet, setting off at the same velocity of 4,300fps, has a greater energy figure of 739ft/lb and at 100 yards has dropped to 3,158fps and 398ft/lb, better than the 15 grain but not much. Standard Large Rifle primers are perfectly adequate for the .35 Rem., as most powder charges are in the 40- to 45-grains range. sighting-in all the rifles or the 60+ rounds that we fired in the Remington Model 547 Custom C Grade, .17 HMR - 0.69" (Remington) Anschutz Model 1717 D Classic, .17 HMR - 0.73" (CCI) . The powder produced good accuracy and velocity with bullets cast from an RCBS 45-405-FN mould and fired in a Marlin 1895 Guide Gun .45-70. Ive loaded A-2495 in the .243 Winchester shooting 70-grain bullets. Dimensional differences between the two cases are so slight that load data for the two are interchangeable. I fired 21 handloads in the Model 336 and 10 loads in the Outfitter. .17 Remington - Published Manufacturer Loading Data Shellholders: Hornady #16 Lee #4 Lyman #26 RCBS #10 Recipe Type: Bullet Weight: Recipe Source: Starting Max Source 15.5 gr NTX (HDY) 0.172" Powder: Benchmark (Hodgdon) Primer: REM 7 Case: REM Trim Length: 1.786" C.O.L. is readily suitable for shooters to load their own ammunition, and dies, other tools, and accoutrements are available, as are bullets especially designed for the round. Kindler 30gr Gold bullets and RL-15 takes the .17 Rem to a new level of killing power. 50 v-max at .020" off the lands. .17 Remi If my 57-year-old eyes are clear that day. I recall wondering if close examination would have revealed several .375-inch holes the bears hide. Re: Most accurate 223/5.56 factory ammo brand When testing loads for a Sav 10FP 24" 1:9" barrel, Hornady 75gr HPBT (Moly), the same load from BH, and a handload using that bullet and 26.5gr of Ramshot Big Game shot indistinguishably and quite well. To achieve a balance between keeping the bullet together on firing while travelling up the bore, the bullet actually has to be tough around the jacket and therefore the tip is really the only area that can be fragile to initiate expansion. He was a college professor, a gifted machinist, a writer, a barrel maker, a bullet maker, a builder of rifles and an avid experimenter. It's interesting to see actual velocity figures for Speaking of the guns I used, I was fortunate to have on hand two fine guns chambered for the .35 Rem. All rights reserved. They are accurate, flat shooting, quiet and have practically no