Ugly Sauce
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I have heard about seating a .22" pellet in a primed case, in the .22 Hornet. No powder. I haven't found much info on that. but I may give it a try. Unfortunately both my air-guns are .25".
I did some youtube searching the other day, and did find some stuff on .22 Hornet light loads, and some stuff on .223 light loads, which is "kind of" comparable. Didn't really look like any problems were encountered. Looked like Trail Boss worked really well as it bulks up good. I could not find anything sub-1000fps, but it looked like 1000fps turned in good groups. So, I'm thinking things will work. My "target" velocity is 800fps, but I don't think 1000fps will be to rough on the little birdies, and of course I want enough oooomph to kill a rabbit cleanly.
I suppose I'll get some bullets stuck in the bore when working "down" the load. But that's okay, I'll know what the low limit is, and then just load up until I'm confident they won't get stuck up on the side of some mountain, and six or seven mile in. !!!!
I did some youtube searching the other day, and did find some stuff on .22 Hornet light loads, and some stuff on .223 light loads, which is "kind of" comparable. Didn't really look like any problems were encountered. Looked like Trail Boss worked really well as it bulks up good. I could not find anything sub-1000fps, but it looked like 1000fps turned in good groups. So, I'm thinking things will work. My "target" velocity is 800fps, but I don't think 1000fps will be to rough on the little birdies, and of course I want enough oooomph to kill a rabbit cleanly.
I suppose I'll get some bullets stuck in the bore when working "down" the load. But that's okay, I'll know what the low limit is, and then just load up until I'm confident they won't get stuck up on the side of some mountain, and six or seven mile in. !!!!