My single shot Savage Model 40 .22 Hornet is one sweet shooting machine. Its favorite load is a 40 grain Hornady V-Max bullet (#22241) over 12.5 grains of Hodgdon Lil`Gun in Winchester brass and set off with Winchester small pistol primers. This load averages 2875 fps with the chrono 10 feet from the muzzle.

This is my "head of rabbit" and coyote gun and I have the scope set for dead-on at 100 yards. I've been wondering what the trajectory is for this load at various ranges - not book trajectory, but real world trajectory from my gun.

So Saturday I set up targets at 50, 75, 100, 125, 150, 175 and 200 yards, and took three shots at each target. You can see the results below. Ya` can't beat that!


50 yards



75 yards



100 yards



125 yards



150 yards (After shooting this target I adjusted the scope two clicks left.)



175 yards



200 yards


Of course, I had to shoot at 100 yards again to see how the scope adjustment affected POI at that range.


Man, I wish we had Prairie Dogs in Louisiana.