Thread: 22 Hornet - Over Length Fired Once Cases?

Originally Posted by blip

What hornet do you have? Never had feeding problems with any of mine

I have two 465s.
Three more this morning. By seating a little deeper I got an xtra 15 fps. Up from a pedestrian 2135 to a screaming 2150 average.
I tried feeding from the side as in rifle lying down and then slowly and these vmaxs less the red knob feed flawlessly. Happy chappy.
Now to sight in at a ton and look out rabbits and others.

Originally Posted by SmokeyJason

I have two 465s.
Three more this morning. By seating a little deeper I got an xtra 15 fps. Up from a pedestrian 2135 to a screaming 2150 average.
I tried feeding from the side as in rifle lying down and then slowly and these vmaxs less the red knob feed flawlessly. Happy chappy.
Now to sight in at a ton and look out rabbits and others.

Interesting. I have been avoiding pointy projectiles, like VMax, because my understanding is the Hornet was developed (or be it 100 years ago).to shoot round nosed bullets. I've been loading the 40grn Winchester HP W/C on the right of photo. Just now the courier has delivered Speer #1023 45grn Sptzer SP BC 0.143, which I like the look of for smooth feeding. Got 8 projectiles now for comparison. Going to load ten of each with same powder charge, 10 or 11 guns AR2207 and see which feeds and groups best. Might milk bottles test them too.

It is fairly academic because any of these projectiles will kill well, but good to know in terms of what is available in times of shortages.