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Offline Jason F

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barnes 36 grain varmint grenade in 22 hornet
« on: August 16, 2011, 01:46:43 PM »
I got my 22 magnum re chamber to a hornet  has anybody ever tried the vamint grenades,it shoots 45 grain bullets at 1" groups at 50 yards, still working up a load not done yet
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Re: barnes 36 grain varmint grenade in 22 hornet
« Reply #1 on: August 16, 2011, 01:57:07 PM »
Billy had some to shoot, but I didn't see his follow up on them, Lil'gun is my go to powder for the Hornet.

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Re: barnes 36 grain varmint grenade in 22 hornet
« Reply #2 on: August 16, 2011, 02:25:48 PM »
For anyone who wants the info barnes offers a 30 gr. Varmint grenade for the hornet with 13 grains of lil gun at about 3150 fps. The barnes website has all the info
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Re: barnes 36 grain varmint grenade in 22 hornet
« Reply #3 on: August 16, 2011, 02:59:09 PM »
I had 1 box of the 36 grain varmint grenades. I worked with them in a 1 - 14" twist 223. I could not get them to shoot well for me. I used up all of them in the 223 so I did not try them in the Hornet. I have tried Mid South 34 grain Varmint Nightmare HP (much cheaper than the Grenades) bullet with very good results. I took load data right out of Speer's manual. I used CCI 500 primers, the 34 grain Mid South bullet and 12.4 (starting load for 33 grain bullet) of W 296 powder. I know that Lil'Gun is very popular in the Hornet, but I have had better luck with W 296 under lighter bullets. Just make sure you use a CCI 500 primer, a small rifle primer with 12.4 grains of W 296 is an overload.

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