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The .22 Hornet is a low-end varmint and predator centerfire rifle cartridge. It is considerably more powerful than the .22 WMR and the .17 HMR, and in the latter case this is due to a similar velocoty with a bullet twice the weight. The Hornet also differs very significantly from these in that it is not a rimfire round but a centrefire one. This makes it handloadable and reloadable, and thus much more versatile. The . ...
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A rimfire is a type of firearm cartridge. ...
A centerfire cartridge is a cartridge in which the primer is located in the center of the cartridge case head. ...
Handloading is the process used to create firearm cartridges by hand versus those put together en masse and sold commercially, generally in packages of 6 to 50. ...
The .22 Hornet fills the gap between .22 WMR and such popular varmint/predator cartridges as the .222 Remington and the .223 Remington, as regards muzzle velocity, muzzle energy and noise; and it is well suited to varmint and predator control in relatively built-up areas. The Hornet's virtual absence of recoil has even it quite popular among deer hunters in some areas, although it is generally regarded as very underpowered for deer unless bullet placement is absolutely precise. Many jurisdictions such as the UK currently prohibit the Hornet for use on deer. The . ...
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Factory ammunition is widely available from all major manufacturers, generally with bullets weighing 34, 35, 45, or 46 grains (2.2, 2.3, 2.9, 3.0 g), with bullets invariably either hollow point or soft point. Muzzle velocity typically is in the 2,500 to 3,100 fps (760 to 940 m/s). range, and muzzle energy is just over 700 ft lbs (950 J) for factory ammo fired from a rifle. (Velocities and energies are less when Hornet ammunition is fired from short-barrelled firearms.)
Published handload data from major handloading-product companies shows how versatile the .22 Hornet can be. For instance, it is easy to use these data to load .22 Hornet ammo with heavier bullets than the major manufacturers offer, to produce loads that are significantly more powerful than the .22 WMR but that are no noisier than much commercially loaded .22 Long Rifle high-velocity ammo. The . ...
.22 Long Rifle - Subsonic Hollowpoint (Left), Standard Velocity (Center), Hyper-Velocity Stinger Hollowpoint (Right). ...
Rifles are currently (2007) being chambered in .22 Hornet by Ruger, New England Firearms, CZ and various other mass-market manufacturers. Most current-production rifles in .22 Hornet are either bolt-action or single-shot designs, with the exception of a very few "survival" rifle/shotgun over-under designs and a few European-made kipplauf break-action, single-shot rifles. It is possible to get an extremely-accurate new .22 Hornet rifle for as little as US$200, although prices can go very much higher for rifles made by custom riflemakers and the specialist London and European trade.. Sturm, Ruger & Company is a Connecticut-based manufacturing company composed of three divisions: Ruger Firearms, Ruger Investment Castings, and Ruger Golf. ...
The two-letter abbreviation CZ has several different meanings: CZ is the ISO country code (ISO 3166-1 alpha-2) for Czech Republic. ...
Revolvers have been produced in .22 Hornet by Taurus and others. Single-shot pistols in .22 Hornet have been made by Thompson. (Power levels are substantially less for this cartridge in short-barrelled handguns than in rifles.) This article needs to be updated. ...
History
The .22 Hornet's ancestry is generally attributed to experiments done in the 1920s using the black-powder .22 WCF at Springfield Armory. Winchester adopted what had so far been a "wildcat" cartridge in 1930, producing ammo for a cartridge for which no commercially-made guns yet had been built. It wasn't until 1932 that any company began selling commercially-made guns for the cartridge.
Beginning during World War II, aircrew survival rifles in .22 Hornet were developed and issued by the U.S. military. They typically were bolt-action rifles with telescoping stocks or break-open rifle/shotgun over-under designs.
In Great Britain, the .22 Hornet was extremely popular among specialist roe deer stalkers in the early 20th century; but the calibre was outlawed by the 1963 Deer Act owing to inadequately low bullet energy, and has fallen considerably in British popularity since then. Wildcat variants of the .22 Hornet, such as the .22 K-Hornet, can boost bullet velocity and energy considerably above factory .22 Hornet levels, but performance still falls short of what is deer-legal in any part of the United Kingdom. Binomial name Capreolus capreolus, Capreolus pygargus (Linnaeus, 1758) There are two species of Roe Deer. ...
A wildcat or wild cat is a species of cat, although the term is also used to describe the bobcat. ...
The book "Deathwatch" prominently features a .22 Hornet owned by the main character Ben.
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