K Hornet

[stacy]

Well, I might as well chime in.....Mine is a single shot Savage Model 40. Also rechambered from 22 Hornet to K Hornet. I really love this rifle. Limited to a single shot, but who needs more than one shot, right? lol. Anyway, I have shot coon with mine, but not a coyote yet. But wouldn't hesitate to give it a try. I shoot the 40 gr. vmax in my loads. Good groups, and just fun to shoot.

I have its twin love my Savage Model 40 K-Hornet I also have one in Hornet they like 40gr V-Max also

 

[WrathOfMan]

I have its twin love my Savage Model 40 K-Hornet I also have one in Hornet they like 40gr V-Max also

Hang on to it Stacy. I can't ever recall seeing another one since I bought mine years ago. You and I might be the only people we "know" who has one! hehe

 

[danny]

I do not hunt but for some reason I'm kind of a Hornet nut. I'd like to add a K one day.

I have two, wish one was a K. Speaking of Hornets, what happened to "the ones that don't shoot" (the 77/22 Hornet). I rarely see them for sale.

Danny

 

[Leo_B]

My Hornet appreciation is a semi-recent enlightenment. I'm also a Ruger fan. So that's on my short list of I wish.

 

[AckleymanII]

I have a brand new model 40 Savage, laminate I would sell, make me an offer!

 

[stacy]

Hang on to it Stacy. I can't ever recall seeing another one since I bought mine years ago. You and I might be the only people we "know" who has one! hehe

I saw one in a wood stock not laminated stock like ours and as soon as I saw it it was sold before I could type my message

 

[Bangs OH]

Hang on to it Stacy. I can't ever recall seeing another one since I bought mine years ago. You and I might be the only people we "know" who has one! hehe

Make that three on here who have/have had one. Wish I’d never sold mine (also thought I “needed” a magazine.) Went through several other .22 Hornets before finding one (CZ) that shoots as well as that old Model 40, and now if given the choice between having a magazine or a 2-inch longer and heavier barrel, I’d choose the latter.
IME, Speer 45-grain PSP bullets seem to be the best combination of accuracy and lethality in a .22 Hornet.

 

[Rick in Oregon]

IME, Speer 45-grain PSP bullets seem to be the best combination of accuracy and lethality in a .22 Hornet.

Add to that short list the old discontinued (oh WHY?) Nosler 45gr Hornet Flat Base bullet. Every Hornet I've had (four) has shot them very, very well. Like in the 1/4" range like the naysayers say a Hornet or K-Hornet cannot do as shown in Post #16 here.

What a neat, little and accurate fun caliber!

 

[rjtfroggy]

Make that 4 of us. Mine isn't a "k" but is in the laminate stock. Haven't shot it in years but it still resides in the back of the safe.

 

[17VLD]

Add to that short list the old discontinued (oh WHY?) Nosler 45gr Hornet Flat Base bullet. Every Hornet I've had (four) has shot them very, very well. Like in the 1/4" range like the naysayers say a Hornet or K-Hornet cannot do as shown in Post #16 here.

What a neat, little and accurate fun caliber!

Not only was that 45 grain Hornet bullet great in the Hornets but it shot incredibly well in my .222 700 BDL.
Boy did it smash the woodchucks too, perhaps it was a little funny looking and maybe the b.c. wasn't what the ballistic tips had but it was a wonderful addition to Noslers line up. I bet if they ran them again they would sell everyone that they made.
Matt

 

[ohlongarmisle]

I killed a lot of coyotes in Az with my All Weather Ruger rechambered, 40g Speer Spire point did extremely well over some of the poly tip bullets. The 40g Speer just penetrates very well through shoulder bones on quartering shots and gets to the vitals.

In a Ruger #3 I had, I shot the 50g Nosler ballistic tip with amazing accuracy using Win 296 with a pistol primer.

You need penetration on coyote bullets, not an expanding on surface contact type of bullet.

The looks of the Speer 40g is a turn off, but they are incredible killers on coyotes. I had one heck of a time with accuracy on long pointed bullets in my K Hornet up until I tried the 40g Speer, where I could touch the lands at mag length in the Ruger 77. I was using AA1680.

I had more coyotes run off with a 17 Ackley Hornet shooting 20g Bergers at 3550 than any cartridge I have ever hunted with.

Sorry to hear that, switch to a 17 HH if you hit the vitals you should be good out to 250 yards,I've dropped just shy of 300 in 5 years with that caliber, not one wasn't recovered.Remember, dead center golf ball at 200 yards,when you can do 10,of 10 you're ready.

 

[RussellJ]

Anybody shoot one?
Took mine out for a test run today to check the scope and get ready for the coyote hunting this week
Anyone else use a K for coyote's?

Here is a picture of my 22 K Hornet, is a Cooper Model 38.
It shoots 1/2" groups with Nosler 40 Grain Vamageddon FB Tipped Bullets with 12.6grn of Lil Gun powder. I will chronograph this load next time I shoot it.

 

[AckleymanII]

Bullet and speed you are shooting would help!

 

[jeffakujawa]

Anybody shoot one?
Took mine out for a test run today to check the scope and get ready for the coyote hunting this week
Anyone else use a K for coyote's?

I use mine for wood chucks ,incrediblably lethal far superior to a 22 mag. woodchucks are pretty well put together heavy boned made for digging. I fire formed Nosler brass they are heavier then other brass so no case splits. but reduced case capicity. the ruduced capicity is not a problem I shoot 12 grs of lil gun with a 40 gr v-max my velocity is awesome 3200 fps and sub 1/2 minute groups . I shoot a savage rifle the biggest prolem was modifing the magazine

 

[searcher]

I have two, wish one was a K. Speaking of Hornets, what happened to "the ones that don't shoot" (the 77/22 Hornet). I rarely see them for sale.

Danny

Tomato stakes?

 

[Knotwild]

A guy near me took a Ruger 77 K Hornet and I asked him if he had a lathe. He said he cut the factory barrel to a K using a hand tool. Is that possible? I know I wouldn't try it. And he didn't mention group size.

 

[17VLD]

It certainly is possible. I opened up a 6/221 to 6br with a hand held reamer when I was younger and the best group I shot went into a .300" mothball outside edge to outside edge. It was a 12 twist and the bullet was a 80 grain Berger. Was a very slow and tedious process and I won't do it again especially since I've inherited my Dad's lathe. I would think since the guy near you was already starting with a hornet chamber it would not be too bad to complete to a "K" chamber,but it wouldn't take much to induce a wobble and a less than perfect chamber. I would never attempt such a feat with a new blank.
 Matt

 

[SmokinJoe]

FWIW, I tried opening up an Anschutz SS Hornet to K-Hornet and found that steel to be very gummy making my reamer want to grab really bad, then it created some chatter marks that wouldn't stop. Ended up sending everything to Evelio McDonald and he set the barrel back and made a beautiful chamber for me. I think you might be OK with a Cr Moly barrel but I would pass on a SS barrel based on my experience. Have done a few CrMoly barrels by hand with no problem.

 

[Knotwild]

Thanks for those answers on re`chambering. I'm looking at getting an Anschutz Hornet - maybe I will or maybe not. I had an Anschutz Varmint Hornet many years ago (like 30 or so). I was reloading then, but I did not know much about the process other than to pick a load and try it. So I never came close to it's potential. I was using Winchester brass and I got tired of crumpling cases, so when a friend wanted it, I turned it over. Talk about the dollar's worth, I bought it for less than $800 new.

I had a Kimber that shot the throat out badly in about 300 rounds. Sent it in under warranty and the second barrel shot out in less than 300. Had another warranty re-barrel and quickly dumped it. My gunsmith at the time had Kimber send the old barrel back and sectioned the chamber portion. Then he sent it to a metallurgist who reported that the steel was the quality used for rim fires. Never trusted Kimber since then.

 

[danny]

FWIW, I tried opening up an Anschutz SS Hornet to K-Hornet and found that steel to be very gummy making my reamer want to grab really bad, then it created some chatter marks that wouldn't stop. Ended up sending everything to Evelio McDonald and he set the barrel back and made a beautiful chamber for me. I think you might be OK with a Cr Moly barrel but I would pass on a SS barrel based on my experience. Have done a few CrMoly barrels by hand with no problem.

It can be really tough doing things like that without a positive stop having been set. Even in a knee mill I have had trouble doing things like counterboring and spot facing just by hand feeding the quill downward. It's really best, even in a mill, to handfeed an operation like that to a set depth set by the quill depth stop, then dwell it at the stop. If you don't do that, it will most times just want to chatter, bouncing up and down. No wonder it was trouble doing it by hand.

Danny