Yes i do shoot a Hornet, my old BRNO ZKW465 1949 vintage, the old girl's barrel is almost white with age and use I suppose it is the gun world version of white hair. Just like a lot of formidable old women you do not want to get in her way, still very very lethal. It is not as fond as V-VMax 35grainers, as it is the 40 grainers which will if I get it right shoot in a 2" circle at 200 yards. For these I use 13 grains of Lil' Gun and get just under 3000 fps, well to be exact 2997 fps, this is a five shot average over a chronograph but with Lil' Gun the next five shot group could easily be over 3000 fps or 2900 fps, but the accuracy never seems to waiver.
I find Remington brass to be thinner walled and can therefore take more powder, it seems strange to be talking about getting the powder in and not being worried about pressure, but that is the world of Lil' Gun. I use Winchester brass as well and currently am at over ten reloads for the cases I am using, I say "over" because I stopped counting at ten. I use either CCI small rifle primers or pistol primers, whichever come to hand first, I have never been able to detect any significant difference.
I also load 46 grain cast bullets, and for these I use either reloader 7 or I have some Vectan SP3, I think. I can't remember the exact quantities and the information is out in my reloading shed, and I am not going out in the horizontal rain for no one
, I will check later though. I do know though that I keep them to 22 WMR velocities and they are an excellent rabbit round. One thing I do for all my Hornet rounds is to give them a light crimp, trying to control the launch speeds, and I found that for my set up the accuracy improved. So the dear old Hornet is good for foxes and all sorts of vermin out 200 yards +, cheap to load, accurate and all that stuff, nasty little round really I hate it
John
It's also joined the space race, you should see it launch a prairie dog
