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Offline sillydog

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« on: April 23, 2003, 02:06:36 AM »
Seems like a fella should be able to get a set of dies in .17 hmr and load some ammo.

Target shooters have loaded their own rimfire ammo for years.

.17 bullets are readily available.  Where can a fella get 22 mag brass and a set of dies?
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« Reply #1 on: April 23, 2003, 06:29:19 AM »
How do they develop and produce the rimfire loads? I didn't know that primed rimfire cases were sold commecially. Who has a source of heeled .22 caliber bullets?
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« Reply #2 on: April 26, 2003, 11:23:20 AM »
Quote from: Majic
How do they develop and produce the rimfire loads? I didn't know that primed rimfire cases were sold commecially. Who has a source of heeled .22 caliber bullets?


I don't know how they are manufacted.  I have never loaded rimfire, I am just in the planning stages.  I do remember, however, that brass is available for the target shooting community because they reload their own.

With the soaring popularity of the .17 hmr I am certain that dies and brass will become more available.
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« Reply #3 on: April 27, 2003, 10:59:13 AM »
I have never heard of rimfire brass being sold. If some one has a source I would love to know about it.  KN
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Offline AlphaSpud

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« Reply #4 on: July 06, 2003, 05:15:16 PM »
Nope. Not gonna happen. No such thing.

Handling the raw primer material is WAY TOO dangerous.

Thats why centerfire cartridges where invented after rimfire ammunition. Centerfire primers are the only commercially viable way of reloading ammunition.


I wouldn't mind playing around with a little bit of that stuff though!

BANG!  BIG BANG!   hehehe
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« Reply #5 on: July 09, 2003, 08:05:18 AM »
I don't think reloading rimfire cartridges is a viable alternative!  Scary!!!
I know that Certech International is currently selling 5mm Craig casings as a replacement for the 5mm rimfire that was so expensive to buy when you could find them.

Maybe if a bunch of us made inquiries to them they would reprogram their screw machines and make us some CenterFire 17HMR casings using small pistol primers!

To check it out heres the webb sight

http://www.certech.net/
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« Reply #6 on: July 27, 2003, 12:13:07 PM »
Sorry guys the reloadable rimfire is very impratical. I can just see a reloader spinning the case as he adds the fulmanate of mercury priming compond. It would be safer to take a walk in a mine field. The .17 centerfire has been done numerous times. I believe the .17 Remmington was the last.
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« Reply #7 on: November 04, 2003, 02:26:06 AM »
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CenterFire 17HMR casings using small pistol primers


Sounds like something along the lines of a .17 Hornet or a .17 Flea.
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