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has anyone experience with load data from hodgdon for the k-hornet.in my barrel the loads are somewhat onthe hot side.
 
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14.5 gr lil gun 40 gr nosler BT - 3470 FPS(seems to fast but that what the crono said)
 
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I had a Cooper .22 K Hornet that had me totally baffled Confused. I formed brass using WW cases (which it preferred), 13.1 grains of Lil'Gun under a 40 grain V-Max lit with a WSR primer. That load formed cases perfectly at a repeatedly chrono'd 3,000ish FPS and shot bug holes. Once formed if I put all the exact same components back together with the only variable being the formed K case it chrono'd 3,400+ and blew primers plumb loose. Everyone I talked to about that was sure I'd took to "day drinking".
Finally after many ruined cases and head scratching I talked to a fella name Todd Kindler who is the editor of "Small Caliber News" and has developed many sub-.22 caliber wildcats. Todd stated it made perfect sense, he said that after forming the case is much more effecient so back off the load quite a bit with formed cases and see what happened. Long story short I ended up forming with the load I listed above and once formed backed off to 12.2 grains of LilGun with the same 40 V-Max and WSR for 3,250ish and again "bug holes", that was about as hot as I could go with decent case life at all.
Completely counterintuitive as we all know that once formed in an improved round we use "more" powder than the charge in the parent case but that's the way it worked in my K with Lil'Gun.
The other thing that came of that talk with Todd Kindler was that within 15 minutes of hanging up I had another Cooper ordered in .17 MachIV and for all wants and purposes I've shot nothing but small caliber wildcats since but that's a whole nother story.

I don't know if a lick a that applies to your topic but every time the subject of .22 K Hornets comes up that comes to mind. That was the one experience above all others over the years that proved to me each firearm is totally different from the other even in the same make and cartridge configuration.


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