17 Rem in 14" Contender

[no_1]

Good day Ladies and Gentlemen,

I am pretty new here but not new to reloading. The subject gun is a Contender with a new factory 14" TC barrel in 17 Rem. I am using RCBS dies and Remington cases. The cases have been sized, trimmed to min. length with the pockets uniformed. For bullets I have Hornady 25 gr. HP and Berger 30 gr. MEF HP's. Powder on hand is: aa2230-c, aa2200, h335, h4198, IMR: 4064, 4320, 4350, 3031, 4831, 4759. Primers are Federal 205m.

I have shot loads with H335 from 19-22 grs but was not impressed with the accuracy at 100 yds and got a 6" fireball out of the barrel with each shot. Is my choice of powder too slow for the short barrel? Could someone provide some pointer tips?

Thanks in advance,

Robert

[GLWenzl]

Welcome to the site... there are a lot of knowledgeable and skillful guys here (I'm not one of em)

I had great success with my 14” factory barrel using Ramshot X-Terminator. This was before anyone listed a load for it like you will find listed here…

http://www.ramshot.com/powders/loadguide/Ramshot_V4.2.2.pdf

Yes the big fireball does happen and what I found out with my 14”, 17 AH using 1680 was that the fireball got smaller when approaching the max load???

According to this burn-rate chart

http://www.ramshot.com/powders/burnrate.php

AA 2230 (not sure what the *c* is) falls in real close to X-Term… It might be worth a try but I can not recommend a starting load as I have no idea how 2230c burns…