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This is the aforementioned group with my “turkey” load of the Speer 46gr FP over 9gr of H110, fired at 50 yards. Need to check poi @100, about as far as an opportunity might occur where I hunt, and about as far as my own notions about rifles for turkey shooting permit.

No pdogs or gophers here so the best use for a Hornet is for small, edible game, predators, and turkeys. I’d add chucks, but permission on the farmland they typically inhabit is very hard to come by, so the zippy (and accurate) 40gr loads are mostly just for fun, unless I elect to travel to the gamelands of PA to my North.



Will be interesting to see if that group was a fluke or really representative of that load’s performance. For certain, those flat points will drop like rock after a relatively short run.