22 hornet
03-09-2007, 10:13 AM
#1
Spike
Thread Starter
Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: MIddletown, IN
Posts: 25
22 hornet
Is anyone using rifles in 22 hornet for predators and small game? What would be the max range on a hornet? I think it would be to big for squirrels. Trying to decide whether to keep an old M6 22hornet/410 or trade it forsomething else in 22 hornet orchange to a 17hmr.
03-09-2007, 01:44 PM
#2
Typical Buck
Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: Mifflin Co. Pa
Posts: 829
RE: 22 hornet
.22 Hornet is a wonderful caliber. I have a Ruger chambered in it and I use it all the time. I have shot countless groundhogs with it and it will definitly anchor them out past 100 yards. I've never had a chance at a coyote with it but i'm sure that if you hit it where you're suppose to you wont have a problem.And if you do shoot squirrels with it, you better go all head shots. Hope this helps.
Zach
Zach
03-09-2007, 05:40 PM
#3
Fork Horn
Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: Mount Vernon Ohio
Posts: 178
RE: 22 hornet
I agree with Fastbucknut, I love my .22 hornet,Mine isa Ruger topped with a Weaver 4x16.. On ground hogs its good all day long out to 150 yards. Maybe farther, but my fields arent that big..
03-10-2007, 07:58 AM
#5
Fork Horn
Join Date: Jan 2007
Posts: 208
RE: 22 hornet
hornets are great, supurbly accurate! if you hand load, they can be loaded as light as a 22 short or or much hotter than a 22wmr. a few posts above some one said they ancored a yote out past 200yds, nice shot! but its safe to say that they will reliably kill a yote out to 150yds.
03-13-2007, 09:00 PM
#6
Typical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2007
Location:
Posts: 692
RE: 22 hornet
I used Win296 in my hornet with a 10 gr charge you get 700 shots per lb of powder,heck of a lot cheaper than a .22mag and reloadable too!I only shot one yote with mine at 125yds.with a 40gr speer ,lung shot and he did a blackflip bit his shoulder and dropped dead in about as many seconds.Nice for head shooting beavers..Harold
03-16-2007, 06:54 PM
#8
Join Date: Mar 2007
Location:
Posts: 38
RE: 22 hornet
I shot a largeOhio coyote at exactly 59 yards. It was afacing shot when he froze to look at my decoy. I know I hit him at the base of the neck and entered the chest with the factory, 46 grain hollow point. He spun like a top three times and ran off at about 35MPH. There was no blood trail. I tracked the coyote for over 100 yards and lost the track. For me the jury is still out on my continued use of the .22 Hornet instead of my .243.
