22 hornet vs coyotes.......

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I was able to get out for a couple hours last week end with the hornet to see if I could find any yotes ( cabin fever has set in due to this f..#!*^% cold snap here in Alberta) seen 3, 2 of them didn"t make due to fatal gun shot injures. Very impressed with the hornet, it dispatched the yotes as effectly as my 243wssm would have, a lot less noise, no recoil and cheap to shoot. If you have the chance give this 22 hornet a try, you will like it, coyotes will not.

PS. any good load info please pass on, my is 12.5gr lil gun, 45 grain serria bullet , rem small rifle primer, no chrony info, to cold out for it to work, .75-1.00 groups at 100 metres. Please refer to reloading manual before using my load.
 
I don't know about coyotes but I've been smacking foxes and hares with mine.
It's a little Sportco Martini Hornet, a 1950s Sportco factory conversion of a Martini Cadet rifle, and I'm using 10.5gr of ADI AR2207 (H4198) behind Nosler 40gr Ballistic Tips.
Similar sized groups too.
It makes a .224 cal hole going in and a .50 cal hole coming out.
The poor buggers don't know what hit em!
 
Not really.
More to the point they're getting pretty rare near where I live.
And even if they are pest as a native and protected species you need a permit to shoot them........at least I think so.
Foxes are a much bigger problem where I live so we go after them.
 
deerslayer
I load 13grns lil'gun and the 40grn BT and have shot quite a few coyotes with this load with exellent results. I shoot a simular Martini to kombi but mine is a Greener action. I used to load the same Sierra 45grn bullet but found the 40's gave me better long range potential. I have shot a few deer with the 45grn bullet and actually got pass throughs and the deer expired in less than 30yards it never fails to amaze me what that little round will do.
Regards

Kombi
Have you ever tried the Hornet on a roo ?
 
I also use Lil' gun at 12.5g in 40g nosler ballistic tip for coyotes and foxes and 53g tsx barnes for the same and bigger animals and love its performance for the size of shell. Use a NEF and an encore witha custom 16" barrel, nephew uses the NEF and I the encore and it is one of the more fun cartridges to use.

Keith
 
I was just getting started with my .22 K hornet project(Ruger 77 cut out to K chamber, shimmed bolt, trigger job and bedded)
It"s still in the UK, I will be bringing it to Alberta when I go home in Febuary.
I had it out a few times, but load development is ongoing.
Hornady 45 gr hornet soft points, 12.5 gr Lilgun and small pistol(cci) primers.
I was out with a mate who is a taxidermist. He wanted a fox for a display he was doing. I shot 3 foxes for him one night, cos the first two(head shots) were too badly smashed up. One at about 150 yds had most of the back of his head missing. For 12/13 grains of powder, those little cartridges are amazing. I can"t wait to get mine over here and keep working on loads.
Quieter than my .223, and when that little bullet(or the great 35 gr vmax) hits the ground in a pasture, they are safer than a heavier bullet with more mass.
 
deerslayer said:
What kind of big game do you chase?
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Personally I hunt goats, roos (if you can call them big game), hogs and I'm going to start hunting deer next season (March).

doubleman said:
Kombi
Have you ever tried the Hornet on a roo ?
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No, not because it isn't necessarily capable, but because the legal minimum is a scoped 222 Rem rifle using a 55gr bullet at about 2900fps.
The Hornet just doesn't have the energy to comply with govt regs and besides, it would have to be a head or neck shot every time with a Hornet.
I'm not that good a shot and prefer chest shots.
I usually use my 303/25 or 9.3x62 instead although the 9.3 is admittedly overkill.
When my 8x57 is rebarrelled it'll be used for roos as well.
 
Kombi
Is a roo tough to kill or is the caliber minimum just gov't BS. I have had complete pass through's on whitetail deer with the Hornet so I would have thought it would do the job on a roo also. I wish we had feral pigs around home because I love the meat and would pick on them in the "off season". What type of deer will you be hunting (red stag?) and can you also hunt any game at night? Sorry for all the questions.
Regards
 
On the contrary, roos aren't tough to kill at all, certainly not nearly as tough as many goats I've shot.
I even shot roos with a .22lr before the regulations came in and well placed it could kill a roo but too often people weren't placing them well.
That's why they've become specific about cartridge minimums and also about placement.
All shots have to be either a head shot or a heart shot if a head shot is not comfortably available.
For me that means most occasions.
If you're a real "dead eye ####" as they put it here in Oz head shots aren't any tougher than nailing a small bunny at 100 to 150 yards.
No, the regulations have been introduced to stop the nonsense that used to go on and to provide solid guidelines for professional roo shooters who provide carcasses for the meatworks.
As to the deer hunting I'll be hunting fallow deer first up and eventually hope to get some access to red deer and sambar deer hunting.
Fortunately the only "off season" for fallow and red deer is from November 1st to Feb 28th.
Sambar deer have no off season and can be hunted year round.
 
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Nice to have game that you can hunt year round!

Provided that you have a place to hunt.

Thanks for posting the stuff you have, kombi, I really enjoy seeing how the other side lives, as it were. :)

Cheers
Trev
 
We are lucky compared to some places.
Once you have a gun or 2 and a place or 2 to hunt you're set.
Mind you, to get into deer hunting you need to find the right places and to hunt Water Buffalo up north you need either to be a local or to pay for a guided hunt.
Hopefully I'll get to the Northern Territory one day and bag one with my 9.3x62.
It's my major hunting goal aside of hunting black bear and deer with a friend in Maine, USA, and moose with another friend here on CGN.
 
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