Thread: .17 Mach IV Barrel

Well I sat down to load 100 rounds and at about 20 rounds I was well over it. Im just not set up to load for this tiny mouth cartridge.
First of all the cartridge over all lengths were all over the show but I have no cutter to cut the .17 brass. I decided to improvise and set up my mill to cut them all to the same length.



Surprisingly it was a fast, easy and accurate exercise. After deburring them the were ready to prime.

The second annoyance was charging them. None of my powder funnels or scale measures fitted the .17 neck.

So I whipped one up out of some 6061 T6 alloy in the lathe









Worked great and I loaded 100 20gr vmax to take out on the next hare shoot.