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Overall a nice rifle regardless.
Enjoy it.
“Perfection is achieved not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away”.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery. Posted by Brad.
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Something looks amiss with the way the bullet is seated - maybe it's just an optical delusion . . . Nothing amiss, a 40 grain VMax seated to fit in a magazine… Ojive appears to be well inside the neck when looking at the image on a 27" monitor Those early Hornet rifles had a min spec mag for short bullets. With the later trend of higher ogive bullets, you have to seat below the ogive. I have a CZ and was able to lengthen the mag about .1” which helps. I just loaded some Shock Hammer 33 gr bullets which are shorter. That may be a good one for this rifle. DF I guess back then they never dreamed of having plastic tips on bullets or the profile change. Maybe they knew those plastic tips would melt?….grin. It is kinda funny to see something that heavily modified and wonderfully done I might add that requires the bullet to be loaded that way.
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Something looks amiss with the way the bullet is seated - maybe it's just an optical delusion . . . Nothing amiss, a 40 grain VMax seated to fit in a magazine… Ojive appears to be well inside the neck when looking at the image on a 27" monitor Those early Hornet rifles had a min spec mag for short bullets. With the later trend of higher ogive bullets, you have to seat below the ogive. I have a CZ and was able to lengthen the mag about .1” which helps. I just loaded some Shock Hammer 33 gr bullets which are shorter. That may be a good one for this rifle. DF I guess back then they never dreamed of having plastic tips on bullets or the profile change. Maybe they knew those plastic tips would melt?….grin. It is kinda funny to see something that heavily modified and wonderfully done I might add that requires the bullet to be loaded that way. The action is from an original Winchester model 70 22 Hornet. Hornets of that era were loaded with short round nosed bullets that weren’t very long. The magazine is original and the gun was made in 1947. I have 3 22 Hornets, a Winchester super grade made in 1952, a Sako L46, made in the early 50’s, and this gun which has the original magazine that is made for the short Hornet cartridge. The VMax bullet needs to be loaded deep in the neck to allow it to function in the magazine. I also have a Sako L46 in 218 Bee and the neck is so short on the Bee that it won’t work with a VMax bullet at all unless you loaded the cartridge into the chamber manually, as it won’t fit in the magazine with a VMax bullet… ![[Linked Image from i.postimg.cc]](https://i.postimg.cc/cHGFxR5h/45-B487-D5-4562-46-D4-AA1-F-EAD7-E6137396.jpg) ![[Linked Image from i.postimg.cc]](https://i.postimg.cc/0yLTSJBM/DB696D8B-79ED-4073-867D-713236149145.jpg)
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Little bugger is pretty cute.
I can walk on water.......................but I do stagger a bit on alcohol.
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If looks can kill…..that there is a murderer! 😉 memtb
You should not use a rifle that will kill an animal when everything goes right; you should use one that will do the job when everything goes wrong." -Bob Hagel
“I’d like to be a good rifleman…..but, I prefer to be a good hunter”! memtb 2024
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The stuff that dreams are made of.....
"You can lead a man to logic, but you cannot make him think." Joe Harz
"Always certain, often right." Keith McCafferty
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There's something about the overall look of this rifle that makes me think it could be a Lee Kuhns custom but the checkering just doesn't look quite right for one of his rifles.
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Winchester used to make some 45 grain hornet ammo that shot great and were very explosive on prairie dogs. They also fed very very well in the Model 70. Sierra makes some some 45 grain bullets (#1210) that should shoot and feed well. The Hornady 35 grain vmax works, in my experience, better than the 40 grain vmax. Either way the rifle is really neat and I sure wish it would have been found by me. 
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That rifle is stunning. Not much else I can say. Just absolutely stunning. 👍👍
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Screw you! I'm voting for Trump again!
Ecc 10:2
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Dang Shrap! Just dang! Lottery rig and it shoots!!! Congrats
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That rifle is stunning. Not much else I can say. Just absolutely stunning. 👍👍 It's stunning alright. It "stunned" about 3 dozen gophers today.
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Congrats Kirk,
Very cool~~
Can't wait to see it~~~
Thanks for the call~~
SDH
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Even if it does not shoot, you will look good missing....
Very nice piece
I may not be smart but I can lift heavy objects
I have a shotgun so I have no need for a 30-06.....
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Even if it does not shoot, you will look good missing....
Very nice piece Few people understand the value of looking good when you miss, but it is important…
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OK, yez topped my K-Hornet low wall by a bunch.
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Got to see it for myself, and feel some of the inletting work. Rifle of a lifetime, basically.
Up hills slow,
Down hills fast
Tonnage first and
Safety last.
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Absolutely beautiful rifle and in a wonderful caliber. I fell in love with the Hornet from an early age after Dad let me shoot his BSA Hunter at a rock at 100 yards. Hit it dead on and it was nothing but adulation from then on. Dad has long since gone to his reward but I still have the BSA and I'll never sell it. Cannot compare that to this rifle and what a beauty it is.
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