I recently purchased a CZ 527 in.17 Hornet and want to get started reloading for it. I remember discussions here on using pistol primers for the .22 Hornet and was trying to decide if that is what I should use. Powder charges are less than a lot of handgun rounds. I thought I would start with AA-1680 and the Hornady 20 gr. V-max bullet. I would appreciate any advice anyone has on reloading for this cartridge. Thanks.

I loaded for a 17 AH for a few years and used 1680 and sm rifle primers.
I have had better accuracy with sm pistol primers in my 22 hornets.

years ago when Kimber chambered a rifle in 17 ackley hornet the owners manual was written by steve timms, I believe. he proposed using a case full of 4198. my stanadard load 25grn Remington bullet, a casefull of H4198, and a Remington 7 1/2 primer.
the way I did it was to fill several fireformed cases full of the powder and weigh the powder in them. that is the maximum charge. work up to it to make sure it is safe. to load just prime,fill the powder, seat the bullet and go kill things.

Small rifle primers are somewhat thinner than large rifle primers. It is only when you go into high pressure loads primer selection becomes paramount. The Hornet case is low pressure so use what you got/want.

I use Winchester small rifle in my 17 Hornady Hornet and i use Remington 7½ in my 17Remington to avoid pierced and flattened primers.

What the dane said. I use Winchester's in all the Fireball case's, should be fine in the Hornady Hornet. I save 7 1/2's and BR4 for the 20 Tac and 19-223.

I think you are on the right track, 1680 is the way to go from what I have read.

Thank you all for the information. I have quite a few Rem. 6-1/2 primers, so I will try those first.

Late reply by me for this thread.

When I picked up my Martini action custom 22 Hornet rifle from a long time gunsmith about 4 years ago. He advised me to use magnum primers in my reloads for the Hornet...."better accuracy with them." He also told me of a fellow gunsmith that was quite a serious shooter, who had a device that could monitor the detonation of a cartridge someway. His testing of standard VS. magnum primers in a Hornet revealed a magnum primer was better to use. I kinda recall the detonation monitor could detect two detonations after firing pin hit a standard primer......only one detonation detected with a magnum primer.

Mind you, I have used both standard and magnum primers in my Hornet reloads. For me, I've had better accuracy with the magnums.

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I have quite a few Rem. 6-1/2 primers, so I will try those first.

I think you will be happy with your choice of Remington 6 1/2 primers.

17 Hornet runs higher pressures than 22 Hornet. Lots of people use pistol for the 22, do some more research before using pistol in the 17, please!

I won't call this a hijack as it pertains to 17HH and a 527 also.
I joined over at Saubier, but it won't let me post for some reason even though I can log on.

I was given about 500 once fired 17HH, and am new to this cartridge. I have read where the Hornady brass may be some what hard? How does it respond to annealing? It surprised me that everything but annealing was discussed on numerous threads about neck splits. I have worked with other calibers of Hornady brass and found it to be pretty darn good.
TIA
Jeff