I guess owning a 22 Hornet is very much why,, when I got a 17 HMR I realized it was just another cartridge,, and nothing really very spectacular..
But then,, it really is,, just another rimfire...
And really,, just another cartridge...
The 5mm Rem,, had lot's more going for it than the 17MR..
As does the 22 Mag..
The 5mm Rem,, probebly was more a product of poor marketing than anything elce..
Trying to take on Winchester and it's 22 Mag, was not the Best Idea, when Winchester was pretty healthy..
Is it not quite ironic?
That a cartridge with mearly 50,000 rifles chambered for it,, would take on one that there were already hundred's of thousands of out there..?
And try to defete it? (or replace it)
Only to dry on the vine..
A victem of it's own excesses??
I picked up my Hornet,, within a year and a half of my 22 Mag..
It's really just another tool in the box..
All my rifles are pretty much hunting rigs..
Never seen much use, for gun's that needed to be held in place on a rest..
Varnint's and critter's ,,only seem to stick around a range so long..
And paper never really seemed to eat that well.. or nessesarly tell the truth either..
Some people like setting at benches,, and really ,, more power to them..
Some people like a rifle,, that places the first round,, where they want it..
That where I am..
It really funny to me,, to listen to those that have found the round, that ends all..
Guess because,, many of us learned the arc of a 22 rimfire,, be it short, long, or long rifle..And the advantages of each..
The 22 Mag,, accually adds to that range,, and beleive it ot not,, The 22 Hornet does too..
But it's not a rimfire..
Most of us accually did learn the arc, without, the great advantage
of sale's and marketng..:bthumb:
You might want to try that..
Plenty of people use there 22 Mag's at ranges well over 150 yard's..
Pretty effectivly too, I might add..
If you read enough about the 22 Hornet,, you will see some only beleive in that round, for about 150 yard's...
And some,, can about double those ranges..
But I can agree about one thing..
Some people have no business trying to shoot anything over 150 yard's..
Or at 50??
But I sure would not blame the 22 Mag cartridge...
Even if I could not toss a rock...