With all the availability I’ve had over the years with guns, cartridges and shooting opportunities, small-game and varmint hunters seem to have the best of both worlds. For one, we can pursue our sport almost year-round and the assortment of new and vintage cartridges seems to have no bounds. The majority of us started as adolescents with perhaps a well-used rimfire rifle way back in the county, away from livestock or rural homes.
That’s exactly how I started, and over the years my collection has grown to the point where I can delve into a wide variety of rifles and cartridges that date back to almost a century ago, when shooting was starting to grow. Experimenters like Landis, Whelen, Donaldson and Ness were knee-deep into new cartridges or improving them. Working with custom gunsmiths and with the advent of the Ruger No. 1, I can now say I have rifles chambered for the .218 Mashburn Bee, .219 Donaldson or the .225 Winchester. The Hornet came to me in the form of Browning’s Low Wall rifle – now also available in Ruger’s M77/22. With some history behind it from the hands of Whelen and Wotkyns, the classic loading of 10.0 grains of Alliant 2400 will send a 45-grain bullet on its way in grand style. From there, a handloader can branch out to the .22 K-Hornet, and with the usual 10 percent increase in velocities you get from a wildcat, it can be formed by simply firing factory Hornet cases in a rifle chambered for the .22 K-Hornet.
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CIMARRON .32-20 Short Rifle & Carbine
In the heyday of Winchester Repeating Arms Company lever guns, it offered muskets, standard rifles, short rifles and saddle ring carbines.
Remington's Model 722 and .222 Cartridge
It's easy enough to define what a varmint is, those pesky critters that tear up pastures, flower beds and all kinds of expensive crops people need for various reasons - most importantly, to make a living and/or something with which to feed themselves.
Coyote Bullets
What is Best for You?
Remington's 5mm Rimfire Magnum
Shooting a Classic
Winchester's New Wildcat
The Ultralight Rimfire Varmint Rifle
.223 Remington from .30-30 Winchester?
Multitasking for Varmints
LOADS FOR A .22 TCM
The .22 TCM first appeared commercially in 2012, chambered in a Rock Island Armory 1911-style handgun.
Everybody Loves Velocity
The 4,500-fps WSSM Project
A BOLT-ACTION FRANCHI 224 VALKYRIE
Testing New Loads
.22 Winchester Magnum Rimfire
Shooting Revolvers