Why a 22 WMR if you own a 22 Hornet?

[uncle buck]

Logic!!!!!...once had someone tell me...Why would you want to use a 22 WMR if you already own a 22 Hornet?

Truly the person made a logical point..The Hornet is a bit better and more powerful then a 22 WMR but why even use the 22 WMR for fox if you have a 22 Hornet?

Could be price?  a Marlin bolt action 22 WMR is a lot cheaper then a 22 Hornet?

Maybe someone just wants to get their Jollies by shooting a red fox at 100 yards with a rimfire instead of a center fire?

Gee a Hornet could kill a coyote but wow you shoot it with the 22 WMR he could head to the next county with a laceration only?

Ah maybe the 22 WMR feels better then the Hornet or vice verse?


Maybe funds are short and that all you can afford a used cheap aurz 22 WMR?

Could be the 22 WMR would make less noise then the 22 Hornet?

[foxpro51]

One is center fire and one is rim fire. Can 't use centerfire in certain areas. My choice would be the hornet.

[Pa Goosehntr]

If anyone compared the price of ammo for these two...you would find the price for the hornets is above $45 for a box of 50 while the 22 mag is around $17...

[foxpro51]

I would like to see a hornet rim fire

[22hornet]

Buy a Lee handloader and RELOAD it is not diffcult. Then $45.00/box looks $15.00 or less. True guns for 22 mag are less expensive. But wound a fat yote and not recover the animal durning the Mosquito Creek hunt. One could lose a possible $3000-$8000. It might make one cry. Buy a hornet and leave the 22mag for the foxes racoons or whatever else.

[uncle buck]

Also.....if you already have a 223 you can reload it using Blue Dot powder and make the 223 shoot like a  22 WMR.  Shooting Times magazine had some data on just this.  Downloading the 223 to make it shoot like a 22 WMR.
The ballistics editor "recommended an 223 reduction to shoot like a 22 WMR by using  11.0 grains of Accurate Arms 5744 under a 40 grain Speer spirepoint. The ll.0 grains  shot 1,990 fps from a 24 inch barrel."


Also...Researching a reload book...You could also find a powder and reduce the 223 to 22 Hornet velocities..
Just bounce the 22 Hornet data in a Remington (catalog) factory ammo chart to the same or close to velocities in a 223 reloading chart for the same .224 bullet.. Speer for example always publishes within the charts a  reduced load for every bullet referenced for every caliber...

[22hornet]

 If you can get 22mag velocities in 223 with Blue Dot, then I suppose one could load to hornet velocities with blue dot powder. Or split the difference between them.