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J E Custom
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I was also interested in the hornet and decided to build me one.
I found out that there were 2 different calibers of barrels so I went with the later bullet diameter
barrel and decided to go with the K Hornet, not to increase velocity but to increase brass life. (The brass is extremely fragile and thin). I also found 4 or 5 different versions of the chambers.
I had a 1875 low wall (Original)that needed a new barrel badly and decided that this rifle would be
perfect for the Hornet.
It is a great cartridge and fun to shoot (Probably the reason it lasted so long).
J E CUSTOM
I found out that there were 2 different calibers of barrels so I went with the later bullet diameter
barrel and decided to go with the K Hornet, not to increase velocity but to increase brass life. (The brass is extremely fragile and thin). I also found 4 or 5 different versions of the chambers.
I had a 1875 low wall (Original)that needed a new barrel badly and decided that this rifle would be
perfect for the Hornet.
It is a great cartridge and fun to shoot (Probably the reason it lasted so long).
J E CUSTOM
Great article, Glen! (Hope this reply only appears once since I was composing it and it disappeared in mid semicolon!)
I have several friends that still use 220 Swifts for our rapidly disappearing populations of groundhogs but haven't gotten into our rapidly expanding populations of coyotes.
When I was young, most of our legendary hunting and shooting authors were alive and producing articles on a monthly basis which I would read while waiting in a barbershop. I regarding them as gospel and for the most part they were.
Alas, life is a series of intersections....when I reached the intersection of the availability of a particular rifle, my income intersection was somewhere off in the distance!
That being said, another factor was that I was a child of parents raised in the Depression which always regarded a purchase with the eye of necessity; if a rifle was too big for small game for the table and too small for the legal taking of a growing population of whitetails, then it was considered a luxury and therefore was not considered.
My father relented somewhat in the early '60s and purchased me a rifle chambered for the "new" 22 WMR. I suddenly was armed with what seemed to be a laser beam when compared to a .22 LR!
Over half a century and tens of thousand dollars later, I have come to the conclusion that I should have taken up whittling (kidding). The real conclusion is the sadness that the days of seeing 30 and 40 groundhogs in an afternoon of roaming a farm on foot is long gone. I'm at another intersection.....
I have several friends that still use 220 Swifts for our rapidly disappearing populations of groundhogs but haven't gotten into our rapidly expanding populations of coyotes.
When I was young, most of our legendary hunting and shooting authors were alive and producing articles on a monthly basis which I would read while waiting in a barbershop. I regarding them as gospel and for the most part they were.
Alas, life is a series of intersections....when I reached the intersection of the availability of a particular rifle, my income intersection was somewhere off in the distance!
That being said, another factor was that I was a child of parents raised in the Depression which always regarded a purchase with the eye of necessity; if a rifle was too big for small game for the table and too small for the legal taking of a growing population of whitetails, then it was considered a luxury and therefore was not considered.
My father relented somewhat in the early '60s and purchased me a rifle chambered for the "new" 22 WMR. I suddenly was armed with what seemed to be a laser beam when compared to a .22 LR!
Over half a century and tens of thousand dollars later, I have come to the conclusion that I should have taken up whittling (kidding). The real conclusion is the sadness that the days of seeing 30 and 40 groundhogs in an afternoon of roaming a farm on foot is long gone. I'm at another intersection.....
Old Hickory
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Great article, Glen!
I had a beautiful custom made .218 Bee that was super accurate and fun to shoot, except the rifle had a serious defect. Firing pins broke a lot and the maker couldn't figure what the problem was. I finally sold it back to him because of the many broken firing pins. At least he replaced the firing pins for free but it didn't solve the problem.
I had a beautiful custom made .218 Bee that was super accurate and fun to shoot, except the rifle had a serious defect. Firing pins broke a lot and the maker couldn't figure what the problem was. I finally sold it back to him because of the many broken firing pins. At least he replaced the firing pins for free but it didn't solve the problem.
kacerrob
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I am new to the forum and thought you would be interested in one more .22 wildcat. My grandfather had a 22-'06 built up in the 60's. It shoots well into the 4000+fps range and you can only shoot a 7 or 8 rounds in succession until the bullets disappear in a puff of black smoke. I know you were focused on commercially released options but your article brought back some nice memories of that pre'64 model 70.
