bore diameter Ruger .22 Hornet??
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four70nitro
Single-Sixer
.224
mattsbox99
Hunter
Either bullet will work fine, the bore is .224".
yogiboobooranger
Bearcat
.224 bore. I reload for this caliber, great one for fun shooting. I had my chamber reamed to make it a K Hornet, and I fireform all my brass. I use Hornady 35 grain VMax bullets for reloading. Very flat shooting, accurate caliber.
hammie
Single-Sixer
All my reference sources indicate that any domestically made rifle, manufactured after 1950, had a groove diameter of .224 for the hornet. I think the only post war production cartridge and firearm which has a groove diameter of .223 is the .22 Remington Jet (introduced in 1961).
I use dedicated .22 hornet bullets, because the longer tapering ones have overall length problems and won't fit in the magazine of my ruger 77/22, unless you seat the bullets so deeply, that they look like a missle buried in a rocket silo. Of course overal cartridge length is not an issue in a #3 single shot.
My best luck has always been with Accurate Arms 1680, and small PISTOL primers.
I use dedicated .22 hornet bullets, because the longer tapering ones have overall length problems and won't fit in the magazine of my ruger 77/22, unless you seat the bullets so deeply, that they look like a missle buried in a rocket silo. Of course overal cartridge length is not an issue in a #3 single shot.
My best luck has always been with Accurate Arms 1680, and small PISTOL primers.
yogiboobooranger
Bearcat
Hey Hammie, what boolits are U using? Just for grins, try Lil Gun powder. Biggest advantage to Lil'Gun is it develops 200-300 FPS higher velocities but at way lower pressures so the brass lasts much longer, rarely needs to be trimed after the initial OAL trimming, and you can't accidentally make an overload because the case won't hold that much powder. Try Hornady VMmax 35 grain bullets. In case prep, I trim my cases to 1.395". Even new ones. Just wondering what you are trimming at? I believe your OAL should be about 1.80" to work in your magazine fed rifle. With the KHornet, OAL is about 1.72" or there abouts. Anyway, this a fun cartridge to play with.
hammie
Single-Sixer
@yogiboobooranger:
Thank you and double thank you for the suggestions. I got out some of my reloading manuals, and lil gun really looks promising. I reload for about 30 different cartridges, and so I try to select powders that will work for multiple cartridges in order to keep the powder inventory down. However, the nice thing about the hornet is that a dedicated powder isn't that much of a problem. At 10 grains a charge, one pound of powder will last a long, long time. I've been using 40 grain bullets and 1680 in my browning low wall, and 35 grain hornady and 2400 in my ruger 77/22.
As you said, the hornet is "a fun cartridge to play with". In 1960 I was a boy and my friends and I hunted groundhogs with .22LR's. One of my friends had a savage 23D in .22 hornet, and the difference in performance was stupefying to a youngster. I decided that the world of centerfires was a wonderful one, and I had to have a real varmint rifle. Consequently the hornet has always had a special place in my heart because it introduced me to centerfire rifles..
I know I'm getting off topic, and I hope the administrators will forgive me. However, I think we're all here to share information and have fun, and I always learn somehting everytime I visit this great forum. Thanks again.
Thank you and double thank you for the suggestions. I got out some of my reloading manuals, and lil gun really looks promising. I reload for about 30 different cartridges, and so I try to select powders that will work for multiple cartridges in order to keep the powder inventory down. However, the nice thing about the hornet is that a dedicated powder isn't that much of a problem. At 10 grains a charge, one pound of powder will last a long, long time. I've been using 40 grain bullets and 1680 in my browning low wall, and 35 grain hornady and 2400 in my ruger 77/22.
As you said, the hornet is "a fun cartridge to play with". In 1960 I was a boy and my friends and I hunted groundhogs with .22LR's. One of my friends had a savage 23D in .22 hornet, and the difference in performance was stupefying to a youngster. I decided that the world of centerfires was a wonderful one, and I had to have a real varmint rifle. Consequently the hornet has always had a special place in my heart because it introduced me to centerfire rifles..
I know I'm getting off topic, and I hope the administrators will forgive me. However, I think we're all here to share information and have fun, and I always learn somehting everytime I visit this great forum. Thanks again.
yogiboobooranger
Bearcat
You are welcome and great to have a fellow Hornet fan to swap stories with.
