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- Thread starter Badgerbob
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rickiesrevenge
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Never got into 14s. Maybe I should someday
Bullseye69
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You would love it my 14-221 Walker XP100 is awesome .
Eric Mayer
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I have a .14 Ackley Hornet in a Browning A-Bolt. It is wicked on our small ground squirrels here in SW Idaho!
Donald Unmussig steal does
rickiesrevenge
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A buddy said he was going to give me a 14 cal barrel. Not sure what Id chamber it in.
I have a 14-221 Walker I would like to do a 14 Ackley Hornet but can’t find dies
rickiesrevenge
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I have a 17 Ackley Hornet on an xp. I wouldn't do another unless I had a coned bolt for it. Kinda a pain to get the round in the chamber.
I was going to get a hornet bolt for my Bat but they are $845.00
My first Wildcat was a 14-221 Walker.
Thought it too big a case and wished I’d done a 14 Hornet.
Soon tired of keeping the tiny hole Prestine.
Think that was 2009 and it was (Probably still is) the only one in the UK.
KB.
I would like to do a hornet but cannot find did
rickiesrevenge
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Could you use a 17AH bushing die with a smaller bushing to size? I made a buddy a 14 squirrel neck sizer with my 17 squirrel reamer. It was a bushing die, madd him a bushing or two. He said it works great.
For seating if you had a chamber reamer a wilson inline style die could be made pretty easily. Suppose a guy would be able to make a traditional 7/8x14 threaded die for a conventional press too.
I can’t seem to find a full length 17 Ackley Hornet sized only a neck sizer would that work to make bushings for .
rickiesrevenge
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That would probably work ok to. If you ever got to the point you had to size the body you could run them through a fl 17AH die. Doubt you'd get there with thin hornet brass. If you had the 14AH reamer a bushing sizer could be made. Wouldnt size the body.
rickiesrevenge
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Another option would be to take a 17ah fl die and have JLC Precision convert it to a bushing die.
