22 hornet

[bugs n bones]

Can you put an ackley shoulder on a 22hornet?

[Bill W]

No, but you can put a Kilbourn shoulder on it.   It's called the .22K Hornet and was created around 1940.

Ackley fiddled around with a necked down Hornet case and created the .17 Ackley Hornet.

[bugs n bones]

Good to know, thanks

[Bill W]

Back in the 80's Kimber had a short run of the .17 Ackley Hornet and the .22K Hornet in addition to the .22 Hornet.   Those and other short runs of "odd" chamberings created a demand for Kimber collectors.

I was a shooter and wanted a zippier hornet.  I bought both back in the 80s.   My first hornet was a Model 43 Winchester and it took out westside coyotes that were giving local farmers problems.  My first coyote area was in what is now the Everett city limits.

[yorketransport]

The 22 hornet/22K hornet is a neat round but man that brass is delicate! I've never seen a case that would get dings and dents in it as easily as the Hornet case. It makes a great little walking varmint rifle, especially in one of the CZ 527s.

[Bill W]

Sako brass is/was thicker.  Problem with that is it makes your loads with the thin brass have too high pressure if you load them the same.

[jdb]

Lgs has a cz 527 .17 k hornet that they've had on there rack for years. I have a .22 hornet that I'd like to ream out to k hornet.

[Bill W]

Lgs has a cz 527 .17 k hornet that they've had on there rack for years. I have a .22 hornet that I'd like to ream out to k hornet.

If you do, make sure the chamber reamer matches your reloading dies.