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Offline v8r

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« on: December 09, 2004, 08:06:43 AM »
Why is hornet ammo so dang high on price? I really like the cartridge but just about can't afford the ammo.It goes fo around thirty dollars or more around here.The cheapest I have found it was  sellier and bellot at 8.99 a box of 25.Is this ammo ok,I remember reading a post that everybody pretty much said it was junk ammo.I have one box of it i might try this weekend.     Every time I buy Hornet ammo I feel this dull pounding sensation in my backside. :-D  :?
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« Reply #1 on: December 09, 2004, 08:43:26 AM »
v8r, I too am a new Hornet shooter. Factory ammo is expensive but leaves empty brass for reloading. I have yet to re-load for mine as I was admonished for not having a way to measure case length after firing. Santa is bringing me a digital calipers this year and I now have a case trimmer. Re-loading will commence when I get the calipers. Every other month or so I get some new re-loading stuff or a new gun. Now I just need to sit down and do it...


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« Reply #2 on: December 09, 2004, 09:08:36 AM »
Best price I found was at Cheaper than Dirt
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« Reply #3 on: December 09, 2004, 10:14:05 AM »
i love  the hornet cartiridge  just buy brass and componets an start reloading  best way , pick up once fired brass
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« Reply #4 on: December 09, 2004, 10:14:55 AM »
My son uses Cheaper than Dirt and has had nothing but good service from them.    He does not reload and loves to shoot his Thompson sub-machine gun so he is always looking for a way to save a buck or two and they seem to be the best he has found so far.

I think he is crazy and needs to get some single-shots but it is hard to tell a 37 year old kid what to do.   At least he doesn't try to hunt with it.  :)
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« Reply #5 on: December 09, 2004, 01:42:53 PM »
Oh...to be 37 again!  :wink:
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« Reply #6 on: December 09, 2004, 03:44:28 PM »
If you load a V-Max at about $0.12/bullet and $0.02/primer and $0.01 for powder, a box of 50 only costs $7.50 to reload.  That sounds like a pretty good bit for fodder, but it is the same as $3.00 per box of 20.  That makes it real competitive with the rimfire magnums.

I use 40 gr V-Max with CCI 400 and 13.5 gr Lil'Gun in neck sized R-P brass at 1.9" OAL.  My 20" barrel Handi will shoot inside an inch with that load, at 100 yards.  

It uses a better bullet than factory loads and a whole lot cheaper to shoot.!

I don't think I have ever shot a factory load through it, bought brass and dies from Midway for less than the price of 2 boxes of factory loads.
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« Reply #7 on: December 09, 2004, 04:14:37 PM »
I don'd load for the Hornet due to a bad experience with it when I first started reloading for bottle necked cartridges--I kept crushing the necks; I'd lose 2 out of 5 that way.  I now realize that it was most likely poor technique on my part or maybe a bad set of dies.  I do load for 218BEE and really like Hornady's 45 grain HP BEE bullet--it's a 224 dia bullet but should work fine in modern guns like the handi(I'm guessing here but as long as a person starts low and works up there shouldn't be any problem).  Hornady also makes a 35gn vmax that works real good in a friend's Ruger 77/hornet.  

I'll still take my BEE over the Hornet though.
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« Reply #8 on: December 09, 2004, 06:14:44 PM »
My Hornet doesn't like the 35 gr V-Max.  Of course it doesn't really like anything except those 40 gr V-Max and it really likes them!  The load I posted does about 2750 fps out of my 20" barrel.  It's loaded pretty long, but the long throat of the Handi doesn't have any problems with the length.
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« Reply #9 on: December 10, 2004, 12:46:24 AM »
hey cheatermk, i knowwhat yu mean aboutthe bee bullets i bought a bunch of them in 46gr jfp the flatpointed ones speer made for the marlin levers that were in 218 bee, i loaded them in a hornet, they were extremely accurate , and they were flat pointed , really surprised me the hornet is a hard cartirige to beat in general though,
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« Reply #10 on: December 10, 2004, 01:40:56 AM »
Cheatermk3
 I am thinking that you may have had under sized faring ball on on decapping rod. not right terms to use but think you unstand what I mean.
 Marv.
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