I only purchased my first rifle in June last summer and only got out about twice to shoot it so your assumption hit the nail on the head lol. Im the first member of my family to shoot so trying to get out regularly becomes difficult to say the least.
.22 LR Use
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vagrantviking
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How loud is a .22 hornet? I hunt on a pretty good size farm but damn neighbourhoods are poppin up pretty close
Also is 700 foot pounds really necessary on close range ground hogs?
The Hornet has fair crack to it (you can get 3000fps out of it) but its nothing like other .22 center fires and not a great deal more than a .22 mag. Because it uses so little powder there is very little muzzle blast noise. Could always load it down a little too.
Guess it depends on the range that you are looking at. Under 75 or 100 yards a .22 would be fine but still need some shot placement. A gopher is small enough nearly any hit will kill pretty quickly out to about 125. I like to push to greater distances so I like the hornet. It would give you cleaner kills on the larger groundhogs to a greater distance.
The biggest thing between .22LR and the hornet is cost of ammo or the willingness to reload.
RGARDS DALEWe used to hunt around the South March and Stittville area outside of Ottawa in the 60s and 70s when I was a teen. Biggest one I ever saw would likely have pushed the scales at 40lbs. Damn thing was huge and we tried for a year to get him. Wary old bugger. My only 22 at the time was a Cooey 64 with a Weaver 4x on it. I could hit a bottle cap at 50 yds and that was good enough for groundhogs. Every weekend we could get out.
