Yeah, over a lifetime of messing with old Hornets I've never not put .224 bullets through tight .223 bores. My first one, back in the Pleistocene Age, was a Winchester M1885 Low Wall re-barreled with an M2 Springfield barrel (a quite common conversion in the 1930's as a fella could then buy new barrels from the Armory). Out of ignorance I put many a .224 bullet through that barrel directly into a groundhog.
