I find it interesting that so many .22 Hornet users don't (or won't) use the newer bullets with far higher BCs offered today for shooting small varmints like ground squirrels and prairie dogs. As I mentioned already, plastic-tips in the 40-grain range at 3000+ fps turn the old round into a genuine 250-300 yard prairie dog round--how far depending on the amount of wind.
Okeedokee, John. You've convinced me to throw away the nearly 30 boxes of 40-45 gr. .223" bullets I have on the shelf, and replace them with 40 grain plastic tips so's I can shoot the prairie dogs that don't exist within 2000 miles of here!
As it is, my M54 K-Hornet with its .223" barrel is quite happy to spit them into tiny groups on paper. Of course, zippier "modern" bullets might create a more impressive hole in the clay bank behind the target butts, so there is that....
