Home Forums Reloading Varmint Rifles Thoughts on the K-hornet

Shefire,

Your countless yet very WELL founded Insecurities,never ain't not funnier than fhuqk...you "lucky" kchunt. Hint. Congratulations?!?

I get it,that you are such a Brokedick,that everything hinges on your Imagination and Pretend,which fortunately for you is free,so even you can "afford" to "contribute". The only things you "shoot" are your mouth and Imagination and it's funnier than fhuqk,that you do so aloud. When Reality enters every 10 years or so,you are on the phone with Bullet Manufacturers lamenting your "abilities",as your steaks swelter over night. Hint. Fhuqking LAUGHING!

Bless your poor poor(literally) heart,you Magnificently CLUELESS Drooling Dumbfhuqk.

Hint.

Fhuqking LAUGHING!................

Very nice!

Nice looking rifle, Jgray!

Despite my name, my Hornet is the standard Hornet, in the Ruger M77 sporter.

Before Lilgun came out, I toyed with turning it into a 'K', but never did it. Lilgun gave me speed, accuracy and case life (Lee Collet Die helped as well), so I was all set.

when you tire of that thing ill take it off your hands

Just got back from the range today after a long run of sub temps. Took a lot of advise and opinions from this thread and others. Loaded 10 each with h110, lil gun and a couple others. Lil gun is the most inconsistent powder out of all I tried. 1680 the most accurate. H110 the fastest. This rifle doesn’t like 40gr bullets is what I’m finding out I believe. Can’t get under an inch at 100 off a bags or lead sled.

Pretty small statistical sampling. But, the trigger time is worthwhile and beats playing golf!

It was. I know 10 rounds doesn’t mean much but the size of the groupings was plenty for me to tell. Trying to locate some lighter bullets as we speak. Also no idea on round count as it’s a trade rifle. Going to the bench and a good scrubbing might make all the difference.

Have owned quite a few standard .22 Hornet and .22 K-Hornets. Eventually came to the conclusion that K-Hornets often shoot a little more accurately is not primarily due to heads-pacing on the shoulder, but that the very straight-sided K-Hornet case can't wobble much in the typical full-length sizing die, compared to the tapered .22 Hornet case.

But the most accurate .22 Hornet (standard or K) I've owned was a Ruger No. 1B that, with neck-sized cases, would put 5 shots into well under half an inch at 100 yards.

One of the reasons I took the trade was the amount of ammo that came with it. There was 700 rounds of loaded khornet and 300 more of prepped brass. I asked what the load was and it’s 13.5gr of little gun over a 40gr vmax. The surprising thing is he shot most of the factory rounds just to fire form into the dirt. Then picked a load out of the book and reloaded them all to the Hornady manual. Never fired a round until all 700 were loaded. They shoot at best 1.5-2.5 at 100 yards off of a lead sled or bags. At this stage he just wanted rid of the gun. Now I’m stuck with the dilemma of just shooting them or pulling them down and starting over.

My first hornet was #1with a 26” barrel.( I read some gun scribe doting on it!) I loaded 40BT or vmax over 110/296 as I couldn’t find lil’gun and had a bunch of the other powder. I never did shoot that load over a chrony but it shot tiny little groups and often hit pdogs far enough away that the little plastic tipped bullets zipped right through without opening up. That load was a bit over max but I figured they were safe as my OAL was a bit over max as well. I finally got around to trying some lil’gun and hope to try it out this year in SD on the dogs. Both loads shoot between about .4-.6” regularly. I’ll see if the lil’gun loads connect as well at distance. Im thinking my brass life should improve as well. My 296 loads start splitting about 6-8% of the cases after 3 firings. Time will tell.

Question here for Stick if you’re still following this.

I also have an Anny 22h and usually use 40 or 45 sierras out of it because of the short mag. Those bullets are pretty well impossible to find right now… i found a few here at the fire from some guys nice enough to help me out ( thanks again gentlemen) but never tried any vmax lighter than 40 out of a hornet. Care to elaborate on why you love them?

Thanks in advance,
Ben

Great info, I've been thinking of a K-Hornet for a while. Wish they were still making the Contender.

I took a raffle ticket on a .22K Hornet Contender barrel made by Fred Smith, the owner of Bull Berry.
He made it to compete at T/C Associations convention. After he won, he donated it to TCA and I won it for a $5.00 ticket. Called him to thank him and got his recipe . It's super accurate, easy to load and pleasant to shoot .
Soup

Not Stick, but I shoot 40 Berger HP in my Anschutz hornets. They fit in the magazine are accurate and explosive on PDs.