I didn’t have any fired brass so I loaded up some once fired Winchester cases I traded for here. I seated a 40 grain vmax at 1.938”. I chambered them at the long length anf they dropped right in. I know the extractor sits out pretty far so I closed my action. I did this on four rounds. Three of the four OAL shrunk to 1.932” and one shrunk to 1.918”. I decided to seat them at 1.908”. Seems Sami says 1.793 and I see some listings in my book at 1.810” I know since I have a single shot I can load long. I’ll have to put a few of the 40 grain vmax in a couple of fired pieces of brass when I shoot these to determine the max OAL. I also loaded up some 40 grain Nosler ballistic tips to try at the same OAL. I chambered a few and closes the action. They stayed the same OAL like the 40 grain vmax. I would assume my chamber is longer than most or is this common to have a longer chamber in my savage 24F?
I only loaded up 25 rounds today. First time loading a 22 Hornet. I chamfered the inside of the brass vert lightly. All bullets seated nicely with ease. The neck tension wasn’t super hard but I’m sure it’s enough to hold the j words in place. Im guessing with the thinner brass I’m not going to get super tight neck tension with the hornet. They look good but I was just wanted to make sure they’re not too long. I would assume the longer the better for groups. The trigger is still horrible in the gun after polishing it for time so I still will have to work on that another day.
40 grain Noslers loaded at 1.908. I would assume loaded long they will probably be 40/50 fps slower than the advertised book load at 1.793/1.810”?
I did check to see that I didn’t have a shell plate holder for my trim dye so I couldn’t trim my cases. I would assume I have a 22 pilot? Maybe not I do have a pilot for a 223 which I would assume is the same? I didn’t look at the book to see if they were the same or not since I didn’t have a shell holder.
I ended up loading these with H110. I found that even with the max loading of 11.8 and 11.5 grains I was no where near a compressed load. I first tried lil gun powder but decided against it. I would have had to be close to a starting charge in order for it not to be compressed and didn’t want to be undercharged with a long OAL. My Hornady manual said max load was 13.2. At that charge it was to the top of my case neck! My case was a Winchester which is what Hornady listed the load as well. I would have had to drop a good 2 to 3 grains just to get the bullet to seat with lil gun imo so I shred away from loading with it.
I can seat my loads to max Sami OAL if needed. Would you suggest to shorten my OAL to max Sami specs with these or shoot at the longer 1.908”? The bullets just stick way out so the loaded ammo just looks to long to me.