22 Hornet for pig, bear, mountain goat, deer, elk, and moose?

[Castle Rock]

No way, I hate loading 223 because they are too small

 

[FredH]

Should be factory Hornet barrels coming from TC again soon, now that they are in operation again.

Yep it would be nice for TC to become again what it once was. I did in my younger days have a 10" barrel in 22 Hornet. Ear protection an absolute must!

 

[Ruggedsportsman]

I've thought about doing this with the .221 Fireball...it's one of my favorite rounds to plink with.

Awesome round for sure

 

[FredH]

My single complaint on the Hornet is the thin brass, and sloping shoulder cause a lot of neck trimming to happen.

 

[Steve O]

My single complaint on the Hornet is the thin brass, and sloping shoulder cause a lot of neck trimming to happen.

Make it into a K Hornet; isn’t that the main reason it was inspired? Velocity and case life.

 

[coyotekilla]

Savage is making a model 25 in 22 hornet & 17 hornet. Me I'll shoot my 22 tcm

 

[FredH]

Make it into a K Hornet; isn’t that the main reason it was inspired? Velocity and case life.

Already have Hornet dies. K hornet dies are around $100.

 

[Ruggedsportsman]

My single complaint on the Hornet is the thin brass, and sloping shoulder cause a lot of neck trimming to happen.

I trim every firing on all my brass anyways

 

[FredH]

I trim every firing on all my brass anyways

I like to trim every 4-5 shots. Seems loading the Hornet down a bit off top speeds helps a lot.

 

[zdc1775]

Growing up I mostly lived with my grandparents on their farm, it was a small dairy farm of 150 acres with about half used for various crops and the rest as fields for the dairy cows. Because of that, my grandfather always had crop deprivation permits for deer and I never saw him use anything other than his old Savage bolt action in 22 K-Hornet on any of those deer. I'm not sure how many of them he killed over the 30 or so years he ran the farm himself but it had to be well into the hundreds, if not in the low thousands. I also watched him use that gun on every coyote and groundhog he could see and even a few cattle over the years. He let me start using it on various animals when I was around 8 or so and I personally killed around a dozen deer and maybe 20 coyotes with it before he bought me a scoped 22 WMR to use since my eyesight was so bad back then (PRK is an awesome surgery).

As far as I know, the only bullet he ever used was a 45 grain RNFP bullet that he cast himself and loaded using H110 and an old Lee Classic Loader in the evenings on the kitchen counter a few time a month. I don't know the actual load data but I do remember him telling me that they were basically the same as the 22 WMR he bought for me.

He almost always shot the deer in the neck with them and about 90% of the time they just dropped where they stood. If the shot was a bit further out then he shot them in the lungs and then they usually didn't make it out of the field before they went down.

He also bought me my first "real" deer rifle at about the same time to use when we went down to the hunting land his family leased, a NEF single shot 223, and basically told all of his older brothers and nephews at the camp, who all thought a 270 was a good women's gun but a bit light for deer (in central Alabama where a really big deer might weigh 180-200 pounds and most were more like 125-130), to shut up about me using a "baby's gun" (their words, not mine or his) unless they could outshoot me and bring home bigger deer.