And....courtesy of Mule Deer's article on beating the rimfire shortage, any desire I may have had to pick up another .22 mag has been quenched by his .22 mag equivalent loads for the Hornet and .223 using commonly available components. As he noted in his article, those loads do about as well as the mag performs in many rifles (certainly as well as the two rifles I had). You can buy a lot of powder, primers and cheap, .224 bullets for the price of even a cheap rifle. If you figure in the cost of gas, Gunshow admission and the time you spend going there (or hanging around the counter at What-a-Mart), I think you come out ahead.
