22 hornet

[Stan Pollak]

On the plus side of that same trip to the range with the CZ 221, the hornet(Savage mod#40/glass bedded/free floated barrel/lam stock/2# trigger)with the rem 6 1/2 primers and the lil'gun powder performed admirably. From past experience, I've made it a point to always take at least two rifles to the range for testing. Time did not allow the full range of tests, but there were no case extractions with a screw driver and no "fail-to-fire" events. To recant, factory ammo(Win 46gr hp)always performed well-and grouped better than my previous handloads with 35,40, or 45 gr berger,barnes,or hornady. Stan-share your sport

 

[murphy]

To Stan

Dont entirely understand Your question, but it sounds like You are having fun with your Hornet. Here is something to try, 4.5grains of Alliant Unique powder CCI500 small pistol primers 40gr projectile of Your choice. Move your seating depth around in 1/6"intervals from deep as it will go too touching the lands. In My little Frazer Falling Block replica this load shoots .24" 5shots at 50yds but seating depth is critical. Reguards Murphy.

 

[Stan Pollak]

Murphy

The .22H was an attachment to my CZ527 problem. I'd had this hornet about two years trying everything but what was working for everybody else-expensive, time consuming route! When I first saw this mod#40, it appeared to have all the features the previous 3 hornets I've had over the past 40 years did not. Many frustrating hours later I finally took my reality check on it and am going to do the same thing with the CZ- leave the experimenting to the wildcatters!Stan-share your sport

 

[murphy]

Finniky Hornets

Yes Stan I can understand Your frustration. Had a Sako Hornet that drove me crazy,one day it would shoot and next day just nothing helped. I swore off Hornets for life untill one day when I was in a gunshop with my wife. She spotted this Ami San Marco Frazer Falling Block replica and just had to have it. I thought the dang thing looked like a toy with its whippy 23" barrel and Ruger number one look alike action but we bought it and I fadricated a scope mount and put on a 3to 9 Leupold scope sight. Man does that thing shoot! With very little load development[First day] it would shoot around.6" at 50yds .9"at100yds provided conditions were very calm. With the load described in previous thread it did the sub .3 group at 50yds and I thought it must have been a fuke. Went back a week later and did another 5shot sub .3"group. A lot of the inconsistency that people have with Hornets is due to seating depth problems. Hornets often like the bullets seated well back off the lands and overall length of loaded rounds must be absolutely consistent from batch to batch. Other wise Your group size shape and point of impact will change. Reguards Murphy.