Mule Deer has a Number 1 that apparently shoots about like my Browning, that is to say very well. He uses pointy 40gr plastic tip bullets over LilGun, whereas so far I'm "stuck" with H110 and SP primers. Both of us seat them way out there. The single shots let you get close to the rifling, unlike a lot of the bolt guns.

My rifle also likes the 30gr Varmint Grenades, again over H110 with F100M primers, and looks promising as a turkey and squirrel rifle using Speer 46gr FPs over 7gr of 2400 to approximate .22 mag velocity.

15 years ago, Ross Seyfried wrote a pair of articles about Hornets for Rifle and Handloader that were tremendously helpful to me by pointing out how persnickety they could be and that most pistol powders (LilGun excepted) did better when sparked with SP primers. Most published data uses SR primers, which probably explains the mediocre results a lot of people get, including a lot of gunwriters.


What fresh Hell is this?