Heavy bullets in .22 hornet ? Yes

[Wolfdog91 6,274]

Well that's wasn't supposed to work but cast bullets are weird so figured why not Found out my little H&R .22 hornet LOVES lower velocity cast bullets compared to jacketed. Y'all probably remember my posts a while back where this thing wouldn't keep 5rd smaller then 1.5" 1.2 was like that smallest I've gotten with 1.5-2.5" being the norm@50yd with factory jacketed ammo. And for the $39.99 per 50rs they want locally it just want worth it to me

 Common consensus is : .22 Hornet = slow twist barrel = need to use light bullets. Well the lee 55gr RF was the lightest cast bullet mold I have so of course that's primarily what I've been playing with . And so far it's been doing pretty good 1" and under at 50yd is just the norm rocking around the 1700fps mark.

I've pushed these same cast bullets up to 2500fps with no leading but no real need for that on this . Honestly bought this little gun for a 50-75yd varminter. Wanted something with more punch then a .22lr but less power then a .223 so. Also loved the idea of having somthing small that didn't need a lot of powder or lead and I could reload for little to nothing.

The right one being the lee and the left the MP
Anyhow  once I got the lee worked out pretty well I had some MP .227 63gr HP's I had cast last night on the bench and I thought " well why not ? What's the worst that could happen ". And after talking to and studying guys who shoot cast bullets in competition (rifle especially.223 )it's become pretty obvious that cast bullets operate a bit different. Normally for a 63gr bullet to work well you'd need like a 1:8 twist but with cast most  guys who are shooting tiny groups are used anywhere from 1:10-1:16. So the same load of 6.2gr of lil gun ( best cast powder I've found for MY hornet so far. Burns way cleaner then 4227 and H110) tweaked my CBTO so my bullet is just about to kissing the lands, cast bullets generally HATE any type of jump I've found but showing them directly into the rifling can be problematic ( and I have to say it's a bit of a pain with when your deal with and H&R with and Ejector )

And well, it shouldn't work but it did !  

Pretty happy to say the least lol ! The recovered MP bullets expanded pretty nicely ( alloy is close to about 90% clip on wheel weights with the rest being stick on WW. Air cooled after casting and PC instead of my usual double water quenching)  along with a pretty clean bore

Anyhow I love it when experiments work out like this