Anyone use a 22 Hornet for deer?

canadaman30 said:
Show us your results, please.
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Had you bothered to read the rest of the thread, you would have known that I decided against carrying the Hornet because of the area and heavy brush where I ended up hunting during the second week....

Brutus said:
I wish to see a thread on 22 Hornet for coyotes?? ;)
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Sure. Someone will likely post immediately how nothing less than a 7mm mag is suitable for yotes. :p

sunray said:
"...a 45 gr sp should be more than capable of taking a deer..." Not in a million years. That is a varmint bullet and is totally unsuitable for deer sized game.
"...I can't see how a SP or a TSX in the boiler room..." They're varmint bullets too and will not penetrate enough to get to a boiler room or even the captain's bath room.
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Once again, you are wrong. The TSX is not a varmint bullet. From the Barnes website:

What is the Triple-Shock X Bullet and what does it do?
Barnes’ Triple-Shock X Bullet offers all the deadly effectiveness of the time-proven X Bullet. Features include all-copper construction, no fragmentation, rapid expansion, 28% deeper penetration than lead-core bullets, and maximum weight retention. The TSX has proven to be one of the most accurate hunting bullets available–a fact countless shooters have confirmed. An exclusive feature of the Triple-Shock X Bullet is multiple, precisely engineered rings cut into the bullet shank. These grooved rings act as relief valves as bullet metal flows under pressure while traveling down the bore. Instead of flowing from the front to the base of the bullet, the copper material expands into the grooves. This results in reduced pressures and less copper fouling. Reduced pressures mean the bullet can be safely loaded to higher velocities. The rings also alter barrel harmonics, greatly improving accuracy.
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I don't believe you had intentions of using the hornet you were just bored and decided to rile things up.

JJ
 
The 22 hornet was quite popular in northern BC still would be if ammo was readily available .
What's not to like about the hornet it's quiet and in a featherweight rifle would be wicked
If you can't cleanly harvest a deer with 22 hornet at shorter distance maybe your not quite ready for hunting deer or any other big game right now !
That being said if you have a bigger rifle use it it sucks wen you have a big buck just standing there looking at you just out of reach of the 22 hornet( 75 yards max with the hornet )
I have hunted for years with a hornet it's a grait old round works amazingly well at shot distance on deer if you need a quite rifle it's the best caliber and will be very little meat damage grate if your just after food but there is a chance of missing that big trophy buck standing ther looking at you just 100 yards or so
 
^Not everyone has the 'luxury' of no-one telling them that thier deer season has limitations.
Niether are thier feet held to the fire for wounding big game such as Ardent posted here earlier showing pics of the results from northern living aboriginal hunters final end result, of the terrible wounding of woodland bison with 7mm mag/308s.
I wonder how much other unethical practices go un-noticed and unrecorded in some Canadian wilderness places??

Certainly it's doable to utilize the 22 Hornet chambering, or the USAF would never have settled upon the M4 survival rifle (WW2) or the M6 combination rifle. (Cold War Era)
But I myself think it's the mark of a true hunter to minimize potential suffering of your chosen harvest.

If you have to use it to keep your body and soul together or feed a needy family, do so, (and legally able) with it the utmost of extreme care.

Plus, once you are financially able to move on to a more sturdy caliber, one is honor bond to do so IMHO.

My helmut is on.

my 2 bits
 
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Brutus said:
^Not everyone has the 'luxury' of no-one telling them that thier deer season has limitations.
Niether are thier feet held to the fire for wounding big game such as Ardent posted here earlier showing pics of the results from northern living aboriginal hunters final end result, of the terrible wounding of woodland bison with 7mm mag/308s.
I wonder how much other unethical practices go un-noticed and unrecorded in some Canadian wilderness places??

Certainly it's doable to utilize the 22 Hornet chambering, or the USAF would never have settled upon the M4 survival rifle (WW2) or the M6 combination rifle. (Cold War Era)
But I myself think it's the mark of a true hunter to minimize potential suffering of your chosen harvest.

If you have to use it to keep your body and soul together or feed a needy family, do so, (and legally able) with it the utmost of extreme care.

Plus, once you are financially able to move on to a more sturdy caliber, one is honor bond to do so IMHO.

My helmut is on.

my 2 bits
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one Second here what the hell do native hunting practices have to do with the 22 hornet
Deer season has been open for months at home no Haida Gwaii I have yet to harvest anything yet just non-natives hunters
now that it's colder and the deer are in good shape we will start
The 243 and 30-06 is the preferred caliber for deer on Haida Gwaii
I'm using a 308 and 6.5CM I suppose ethically someone will have a problem with that to
Wen you talk about native hunters up north your talking about me wat the hell did I ever do to you
 
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Native hunting practices....f:P: angry white guy?
My Grandpa shot deer with a 22 Hornet, it's still in my cabinet. It's too small, was then, is now...shine it up, nope still too small. Doesn't matter what color your skin is...too small
Want to poach, or sustenance hunt...22 Hornet might be the ticket.
Use your heads Guy's...come on, really
 
Tac870, why would you want to dredge up this old and controversial thread. Bored, not getting enough attention or what? It was hashed out and all opinions expressed 2 years ago, I think there's just a little trolling going on, but hey that's just my humble opinion.
 
There's a teed'er tawder effect gow'in awn here.
I'm widd dah Fudd's.

Carverk, yew gained me respect qwite a while ago..........yer slipp'in.
Tizz awll I'm gonna type.

And Takci..........go find n'udder powl.
 
carverk said:
one Second here what the hell do native hunting practices have to do with the 22 hornet
Deer season has been open for months at home no Haida Gwaii I have yet to harvest anything yet just non-natives hunters
now that it's colder and the deer are in good shape we will start
The 243 and 30-06 is the preferred caliber for deer on Haida Gwaii
I'm using a 308 and 6.5CM I suppose ethically someone will have a problem with that to
Wen you talk about native hunters up north your talking about me wat the hell did I ever do to you
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No one has a problem with .308 or 6.5 CM. There's a discernible difference between those calibers and the .22 Hornet, which is basically the bottom rung of the centerfire calibers. I would take a .308 or a hot loaded 6.5 with a bonded projectile (Partition, unsure if those are actually made in 6.5 though) against most any prey short of bison. But a Hornet? Naaaahhhhhh. Two different worlds are being discussed here.
 
p.Rundle said:
No one has a problem with .308 or 6.5 CM. There's a discernible difference between those calibers and the .22 Hornet, which is basically the bottom rung of the centerfire calibers. I would take a .308 or a hot loaded 6.5 with a bonded projectile (Partition, unsure if those are actually made in 6.5 though) against most any prey short of bison. But a Hornet? Naaaahhhhhh. Two different worlds are being discussed here.
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I'm just stating a fact a 22 hornet to the head or neck will kill Instantly under 75 yards
The 22 LR is under 35 yards
Both work both are poor choices as a guy will give up a lot opportunities being onder gun
Back in the day the 22 hornet was popular mainly because of the cost of ammo
 
I remember one hunt on Haida Gwaii me and my buddy were sharing a single shot 22 hornet
We wear hunting a overgrown deactivated logging road about 3 mile hike on foot till we started running into Deer lots of deer
My hunting partner shot the first buck well Field dressing a Second buck came out of the bush about 40 yards I had to put my knife down to grab the rifle with bloodied hands now we got one deer each both Instant kills with a 22 hornet now we got a long hike back to the truck
As we dragged our deer we kept seeing more dear
We keeped shooting the ones that presented clean shots
The thing is with using 22 hornet you only have two very small targets To shoot at and very close range both requiring the deer to be looking directly at you
By the time we got to the truck we had to go back and drag out 6 more deer laying on the trail
That's 8 deer in one hunt using just one Single shot 22 hornet between the two of us all were instant kills
This is my Real life experience using the 22 hornet not What I have read or theory
I love shooting the hornet it's a grait Little calibre to bad no one is making a quality rifle in 22 hornet any more and ammo is next to impossible to find at times
 
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tokguy said:
Native hunting practices....f:P: angry white guy?
My Grandpa shot deer with a 22 Hornet, it's still in my cabinet. It's too small, was then, is now...shine it up, nope still too small. Doesn't matter what color your skin is...too small
Want to poach, or sustenance hunt...22 Hornet might be the ticket.
Use your heads Guy's...come on, really
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God bless your Grandfather. You read my previous post about a family in real need?

However last time I checked the Depression was well over in/or about 1939.

You, his Grandson can afford better options right???

Cheers......
 
I knew an old guy years ago that culled several hundred deer with a BRNO 22 hornet...he was a heck of a shot, took a rest and dropped the deer in their tracks...would I deliberately choose a 22 hornet to hunt deer?....probably not, my 65x55 swede with a 4x Leupold is far more versatile, why limit yourself with a 22hornet?
I hunt with an old FN guy who used a 22LR....dropped big bucks right in their tracks with one shot right behind the eye...40 yards was about the limit....( before anybody has a fit,remember farmers have been killing cattle and hogs for years with a 22 ,headshot ,pole axes them...) no,I'm NOT advocating deer hunting with a 22,just saying it's perfectly lethal under the right conditions .My late hunting partner, a surgeon , routinely hunted and killed feral goats with a 22 magnum...50 yards is about the limit,you couldn't see any farther anyway

But truth is sometimes stranger than fiction, I came across a doe killed with a 495fps air rifle,it was hit in the neck artery with a pointed pellet and bled out and died under the kiwi bushes where it ran after the farmer took a shot at it in the fenced nursery compound where he was trying to chase it out of.If I hadn't seen this personally,I wouldn't have believed you could kill a deer with a 495fps pellet gun but it did...I saw it
 
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Writer Bob Hagel said it first and said it right. You should not choose a rifle/round combination that works when all goes right but the best for the job when all goes wrong. Put your own ego aside and ignore your self centered friends. Use a tried and true deer caliber whose recoil you can handle and practise until you can do your part right. The deer can still make a sudden move but there is still an advantage with a tried and true caliber over a marginal one. By the way a head shot is a poor choice. Too small a target, (spine/brain), and too mobile. Those who give a damn shoot for the lungs only and pass on marginal shots.
 
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Writer Bob Hagel said it first and said it best. Don't choose a caliber that will do the job when all goes right, pick one that will do the best job when all goes wrong. The head shot is a poor choice, too small a vital area, (brain) surrounded by too much non immediately fatal tissue, and too mobile. Pros shoot for the lungs on unwounded game. Ignore those who are trying to prove something by using a marginal caliber and save unnecessary suffering.
 
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