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Offline wendell

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Re: First time out with 22 hornet superlight
« Reply #30 on: December 04, 2006, 01:11:58 PM »
If you would like a little more out of that hornet. Rent a K-hornet reamer or have a smith ream it. Most acuracy and reloading problems will be history.
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Re: First time out with 22 hornet superlight
« Reply #31 on: December 04, 2006, 09:02:20 PM »
Hi,
I have a rebarreled Vickers Martini .22 Hornet and switching from Win small rifle primers to Win small pistol primers reduced my groups using Win 296 powder 11gr from 1.25" to .75" at 100yds, was warned to check the firing pin strike as the pistol primers are supoosed to be softer and if firing pin strike to hard may pierce the primer but I have had no such worries,
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Re: First time out with 22 hornet superlight
« Reply #32 on: December 05, 2006, 01:36:44 AM »
Hunternz, what wieght bullet were you using in your Hornet with the 11 grains of W296 and the small pistol primers? Thanks....<><.... :)
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Re: First time out with 22 hornet superlight
« Reply #33 on: December 05, 2006, 06:19:56 AM »
The k-hornet conversion is getting some serious consideration, the more I think about it the more I like it. A 50 gr bullet started @ 2800 with it's better BC adds (on paper anyway) 50 yards of effective range.
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Re: First time out with 22 hornet superlight
« Reply #34 on: December 05, 2006, 10:13:45 PM »
Hi MSP,
meant to say Scierra 40gr hollow point, good bullet, used on goats, side on chest shots up to 100 yards with no problems in the killing department, usually no exit and the bullet usually broke up in to 2-3 sections and ripped the heart/lungs apart. Wouldn't shoot anything bigger with it though because of the bullet breaking up.
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Re: First time out with 22 hornet superlight
« Reply #35 on: December 06, 2006, 02:43:34 AM »
Thanks for the info and reply buddy, I will have to try that load, although I was hoping it might be a soft point, do you think the SP may stay together a bit better? But then again you cannot argue with results!! Merry Christmas....<><.... :) 
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Re: First time out with 22 hornet superlight
« Reply #36 on: December 06, 2006, 07:37:22 AM »
Don't know, I'm one of the blokes who finds a good load that shoots straight and kills, I stick with it,
Regards Howard. 
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