Originally Posted by
blixen
That's a big part of the reason that I'm looking at a Hornet. I shot a lot of .22 mag. and .17 HMR before the Great Rimfire Ammo Famine. Also, I had several .22 WMRs --Marlin, Savage and Mossberg-- and could never get great accuracy beyond 75 meters, no matter how much I fiddled. I worked up a mouse-sneeze load out of my Rem. 722 .300 Sav., few grains of Red Dot and 165gr Ranch Dog plain-base boolits. It was easily as accurate as my .22 WMG and, i would guess, cheaper to shoot. Not exactly flat shooting, though. <br><br>I figure a .22 hornet would use about a third the lead.
You guys aren't getting me off the fence--I might have to buy a .222 then a .22 Hornet later. Or vice versa.