"Ed Huntress" wrote:


"Wes" wrote in message
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"Ed Huntress" wrote:

These are close to the nominal groove diameters, so that doesn't explain
the
discrepancy. The best explanation I've heard is that manufacturers often
are
"creative" about naming calibers.

And creating yet another cartridge that serves no purpose other than
increasing sales.

As an old wildcat freak, I used to be one of those who believes there are
never enough cartridges. g For example, a K-Hornet is great out to maybe
175 years, and a .222 is good to 225, but what do you do if most of the
groundhogs are in between? sigh...

The .22 K-Hornet seems interesting. Uncle bought a rifle at a gun show that he thought
was a good one. Well, he ended up relining it and tried to get away with using a .22 RF
liner. That didn't work out. Not enough wall. Ended up with a bubble in chamber and hard
extraction.

He gave it to me as he was disgusted by how much time, money and effort he put into it.

I've considered putting the right diameter liner and turning it into a K-Hornet, I've also
considered it a pretty expensive job for a gun with little sentimental value.

Rebarreling isn't an option, it is an old Savage where the barrel / reciever is a single
unit.

I may get the desire to do some gunhacking and do something with it.



If the calibre hasn't been out for over 50 years, I'm not very interested.

Well, I'm with you there. If the cartridge hasn't been around for at least
50 years, I don't own a gun that will shoot it. d8-)

That is, except for my Ruger SSM, in .32 H&R Magnum. I don't know the date
for that one but it must be after 1980.

I believe it is. You just plinking or are you bunny busting? If you reload, it seems
like a fun plinker with some small game use.

If I had one, I'd load up a bunch of cast bullets (hand cast) and have a blast shooting
steel plates on the cheap. The plates at the club need a double tap to get a fall over
using .22 RF.

As it is, I use my Bersa 95 in .380 shooting a Lee 102g cast bullet for cheap plate
shooting. It is sorta like fishing, use small tackle, small fish feel big, use small guns
and small calibers feel big.

Wes