Fire formed ??

[Randy Bohannon]

Maybe he made them undersized and shot them to size to the chamber.

I can see what the OP is asking how do you get a .22 hornet case into a .17 hornet chamber to fire form it? I also saw the sales thread and was wondering how this is done? I have heard of some case's that are smaller being fire formed into something slightly bigger????

Wot he said.

The 22 hornet case would have to be sized down in a die first befOre it could be chambered.

If I recall the 17 hornet case is shaped much like a modern case designed in the smokeless era, i.e. With a little bit of taper and a sharply angled shoulder whereas the .22 hornet is a much more tapered affair with a long and low angled shoulder.

That would mean that the case from the die would look bizzare with step shoulder only as far down as the neck portion of the die will size.

The first firing then blows out the shoulder to the new angle and the case looks like a normal case.