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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....
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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. ![[Linked Image]](https://www.24hourcampfire.com/ubbthreads/gallery/80/full/221966.jpeg) 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.
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Dang! That’s pretty cheap shooting! I’m gonna abstain, as my bullet supply has reached “critical mass”, and I need to shoot ‘em up rather than acquire more.
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I just ordered 3 boxes of these. They should shoot well in my Valmet 300 series in 12/222 with a 1 in 16 pitch and in my savage 219 Hornet. https://www.midwayusa.com/product/1010937447?pid=711443
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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. If that load stays close to the same size, you’ve got a winner.
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Don’t expect to shoot at more than 50 anyway, so calling it good. Just need to establish POI at 100, JIC.
Long ago I loaded Speer 110gr HPs at .32/20 levels and they were deadly, but fell like Congressional approval ratings beyond 100 yards.
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