Grassed a few scottish Roe with the hornet, remember the first one I had that gave me a fright,Doe and a yearling alongside a wood with a wire fence, decided on taking the youngster, 90 yds approx cracked off the shot, through the scope ( 6 x 42 big mag them days ) see the bullet strike and the deer didn’t move.
The Doe had leapt over the fence by then and I had reloaded and the crosshairs back on the yearling another shot off see it struck again, this time the deer which hadn’t moved run until now moving to the fence went to clear the fence and fell over backwards stone dead, the ghillie with me suggested I wasted the second shot, i think he saw the fear in my eyes that i could have wounded it and the second shot was sent, the rifle was a single shot Holland and Holland rook rifle in hornet calibre Winchester factory ammo with the original barrel in .410 another rifle I should have kept.
I’ve always had a hornet or two and 222 in the cabinet for as long as I can remember, they are so easy to shoot and deadly accurate
when I gralloched the deer both shots went through the heart, since then I have had runners with almost all deer calibers I’ve shot except a .270 but using the hornet expands the fear, sometimes even on 100 yd foxes without a justifiable reason they do the job admirably