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Fire-forming load help.
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<blockquote data-quote="SavageHunter11" data-source="post: 1740231" data-attributes="member: 100006"><p>All week I loaded 22 Hornet brass with the hopes of fire-forming them into 22 K-Hornet brass. From what I had gathered online, when fire-forming, you use a starting or medium load in the manual and you should be good to go which makes sense to me because I've fire-formed 50 rounds with factory Hornady ammo. </p><p></p><p>So (in my infinite wisdom) I loaded 300 rounds of 22 Hornet with 40gr Nosler Varmageddon and 40gr Hornady V-Max bullets over 10gr of H110. At the range yesterday I tried three of each load and all six split the cases. So I know this weekend I'm going to be disassembling 294 cases of 22 Hornet but my question is where did I go wrong? Did I use too much powder or do I need to use a slower (or faster) powder to fire-form? I tried the cream-o-wheat method last summer and ended up just wasting primers and I have successfully fireformed 50 rounds of K-hornet using factory loaded Hornady ammunition so when I was splitting cases with a medium load from the Hornady manual I was more than surprised so I'm finally waving the white flag and admitting I need help.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SavageHunter11, post: 1740231, member: 100006"] All week I loaded 22 Hornet brass with the hopes of fire-forming them into 22 K-Hornet brass. From what I had gathered online, when fire-forming, you use a starting or medium load in the manual and you should be good to go which makes sense to me because I've fire-formed 50 rounds with factory Hornady ammo. So (in my infinite wisdom) I loaded 300 rounds of 22 Hornet with 40gr Nosler Varmageddon and 40gr Hornady V-Max bullets over 10gr of H110. At the range yesterday I tried three of each load and all six split the cases. So I know this weekend I'm going to be disassembling 294 cases of 22 Hornet but my question is where did I go wrong? Did I use too much powder or do I need to use a slower (or faster) powder to fire-form? I tried the cream-o-wheat method last summer and ended up just wasting primers and I have successfully fireformed 50 rounds of K-hornet using factory loaded Hornady ammunition so when I was splitting cases with a medium load from the Hornady manual I was more than surprised so I'm finally waving the white flag and admitting I need help. [/QUOTE]
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