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8 Payback Spotting Scope - Dave Scovill

12 .22 Hornet Classic Cartridges - John Haviland

16 Becoming a Rifleman Down Range - Mike Venturino

20 Lyman Products Mostly Long Guns - Brian Pearce

24 Forming the Schnabel Tip Light Gunsmithing - Gil Sengel

30 Remington’s Hidden Gem A Custom Shop Mannlicher Model Seven Stan Trzoniec

36 Big Horn Armory Model 89 Quality, Power and Accuracy in a Compact Levergun Brian Pearce

44 The Winchester 1873 Shooting the True Old West Classic Mike Venturino

52 Death of the Short Magnums Short, Fat and Largely Ignored John Barsness

60 Handloading Benefits How to Become a Better Shot John Haviland

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The .22 Hornet ushered inthe era of high-velocity, small-

game shooting around 1930, whenWinchester started manufacturingthe cartridge. The Hornet’s origi-nal load with a 45-grain bulletstrolling out the muzzle at 2,690fps is less than impressive by to -day’s standards, however; and evenback then it was not the pinnacleof ballistic technology. The .22Savage High-Power was introducedin 1912 and fired a .228-inch, 70-grain bullet at 2,800 fps, and the.220 Swift and .22 Varminter, nowknown as the .22-250 Remington,came along a few years after theHornet and easily added 1,000 fpsto the same weight bullet.

What made the .22 Hornet spe-cial was that it fit into the con-straints of the Model 1922 Spring-field rifle originally chambered in.22 rimfire for military marksman-ship training. A lot of these rifleswere available at the SpringfieldArsenal and could be easily altered

to fire centerfire primers.With no wars on the hori-zon, arsenal workers hadplenty of time on theirhands to tinker. A couple ofthese army officers wereTowns end Whelen and G.L.Wotkyns, dedicated rifle-men, handloaders and ex-perimenters. They discov-ered the bolt travel of theModel 1922 rifle could belengthened just enough tofunction with the old .22Winchester Center Fireblack-powder cartridge.With the .22 WCF casesloaded with smokelesspowder and jacketed bul-lets, they had a cartridgethat shot flat enough tokill small game out to200 yards. That workedout rather well, as hitting smalltargets any farther away was im-practical with the iron sights mostrifles wore back then.

Oddly, Winchester only be -gan producing the .22 Hornetin its Model 54 bolt-actionrifle in 1933, three years afterit started making ammuni-tion. In the depths of theGreat Depression, it’s doubt-ful all that many were sold,because it was hard to jus -tify buying a rifle to shootonly small game when mostworkers had a difficult timekeeping bread on the table.

The Hornet eventually be-came popular enough thatit was carried over to theWinchester Model 70 in1937 and was chamberedin standard, carbine, tar-get and super-grade riflesuntil the cartridge wasdropped from the Model70 line in 1958. The Hornet

also served in World War II as theM4 survival rifle for downed air-crews. Over the years Hornet bolt-action and single-shot rifles were

The .22 Hornetburns about 12grain of powderto fire a 40-grainbullet about2,900 fps.

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made by Anschutz, Browning, Har-rington & Richardson, Remington,Ruger, Savage and others. The Hor-net’s rimmed case is a natural fora lever action, but I’ve never seenor even heard of one.

Today Ballard chambersthe Hornet in its 1885 sin-gle shot; Cooper in its sin-gle-shot, bolt-action Model38; CZ in its 527 bolt ac-tion; Ruger in its bolt-action 77/22; Savage inthree variations of itsModel 25 bolt action; andThompson/Center in itsG2 Contender pistol.

I’ve shot a Winchesterprewar Model 70 Hornetquite a bit, and I wasamazed at the size of the action used to housesuch a small cartridge.The Model 70’s magazinewas so short, however, it would not accept car-tridges with pointed 40-

grain bullets seated with a car-tridge length longer than the stan-dard 1.723 inches. That’s just aswell, because the Model 70’s one-in-16-inch twist probably would

have failed to stabilize the long,pointed bullets. I never sluggedthe rifle’s bore to determine if itmeasured .223 inch between op-posing grooves, but it most likely

did, as early Hornet bar-rels had the same slightlynarrower-than-standarddiameter bore as originalrifles made from Model22 .22 rimfire rifles. How-ever, I shot bullets with a.224-inch diameter in theModel 70 and never hadany problems.

Today’s Hornets are madewith a .224-inch diameterbetween the rifling groovesand a faster twist of onein 14 inches. A Cooper Fire-arms Model 38 Varminterhas an even quicker twistof one in 12.

This mild cartridge uses10 to 12 grains of powderto push a 40-grain bulletup to 2,900 fps. With the

.22 Hornet Factory Loads yards

load muzzle 100 200 300(grains)

30 Federal V-Shok Speer TNT Green:

velocity (fps): 3,150 2,154 1,387 990energy (ft-lbs): 661 309 128 66trajectory (inches): +3.3 0 22.8

35 Hornady V-MAX:

velocity (fps): 3,100 2,271 1,590 1,126energy (ft-lbs): 747 401 197 99trajectory (inches): +2.80 0 -17.10

45 Remington Pointed Soft Point:


46 Winchester Super-X Hollow Point:


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This group was shot at 100 yards withBarnes 40-grain VARMIN-A-TOR bulletsand H-4227 powder from a CooperModel 38 .22 Hornet.

bullets hitting an inch high at 100yards, they drop 4 inches belowaim at 200 and require a holdoverof 11 inches out at 250 yards. Thatis a flat enough trajectory on smallvarmints like ground squirrels.Substituting a more pointed bul-let, like a Sierra BlitzKing, flattenstrajectory about an inch at 200 and 3 inches at 250 yards. How-ever, these pointed bullets mustbe seated deeply enough in casesso cartridges fit in a rifle’s maga-zine. Deeply seated bullets, how-ever, can intrude into the Hornet’ssmall powder space and drive uppressures. The Hornady handload-ing manual lists cartridge lengths

The .22 Hornet (center) has stiff com-petition with the .17 HMR (left) on themild side and the .223 Remington(right) on the more powerful side.

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about .10 inch over maximum forits pointed bullets in the Hornetloaded in a single-shot rifle.

Case design is my complaintwith the Hornet. Case mouths arethin and often crumple when abullet is not positioned exactlystraightly before running a caseinto a seating die. (I wish a loadingdie manufacturer would make aHornet seating die with an open-ing on the side to insert a bulletinto a sleeve that would align thebullet with the case mouth.) Hor-net cases have sloping shouldersand headspace off their rims, whichcan cause case stretchingand splitting, but that canbe negated by neck sizingcases.

Lysle Kilbourn developedhis .22 K Hornet in 1940 bysharpening the Hornet’ssloping shoulder to 40 de-grees, reducing some ofthe body taper and movingthe shoulder slightly for-

more likely to shoot a .17 HornadyMagnum Rimfire than a Hornet.For about half the price as Hor-net’s, the .17 HMR’s bullets droponly about 3 more inches at 200yards than the Hornet’s.

A handloader can load Hornetcartridges incredibly cheaply. Ifmy math is correct, a Hornet car-tridge loaded with a jacketed bul-let and 12.0 grains of Lil’Gun costsa handloader a couple of penniesless than a quarter. The cost dropsto a penny less than a dime by sub-stituting 4.5 grains of Unique anda 45-grain cast bullet with a gas

check at a velocity of2,000 fps.

So perhaps when Whe-len and Wotkyns devel-oped the Hornet back inthose Depression days,they were searching foran economical, as muchas an efficient, cartridge.That is still a good idea inthese tight times.

Select .22 Hornet Handloadsbullet powder charge velocity

(grains) (grains) (fps)

40 Barnes VARMIN-A-TOR W-296 11.0 2,775 IMR-4227 12.0 2,712 H-4227 11.5 2,680 Lil’Gun 12.0 2,890Notes: A Cooper Model 38 with a 24-inch barrel was used to fire the aboveloads.

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ward. The result was the K Hornetburns about a grain of additionalpowder. That isn’t much but, in asmall case like the Hornet, in-creases velocity nearly 200 fps.

Shooters who shoot only factoryloads are probably not going tobuy a Hornet. Hornet and .223Remington cartridges cost aboutthe same due to the economies ofscale caused by the .223’s enor-mous popularity. So when a shooterhands over his green, he’s going totrade it for .223s that achieve 800fps of additional velocity over theHornet. Today’s shooters are even

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Remington’s Hidden Gem

A Custom ShopMannlicherModel Seven

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Stan Trzoniec

Hidden deeply within thepages of the firearms of-fered by the RemingtonCustom Shop is one that

begs for attention. It is so un-Reming-ton as to its appearance, comes witha laminated stock and is built solelyon the Model Seven action. Reming-ton calls it the Model Seven CustomMS with MS denoting a Mannlicherstock.

This rifle is a vast improvement over the very begin-nings of the Model Seven lineup that started almost 30years ago. In 1983, when the rifle was introduced, itwas chambered for the .222 and .223 Remingtons, .243Winchester, 6mm Remington and .308 Winchester. Theidea, I believe, was to make a rifle worthy of a high-country trek using, more or less, a short-action car-tridge to keep the weight down while still offeringenough power for the job at hand. Over the years, theSeven has come out of its shell and started to makeheadway in the field of classic firearms. The barrelshave been refined, the stocks have taken on a classiclook, and the choice of cartridges has been expandedto at one time, depending on the year of production,include everything from the .17 Remington to the .300Remington Short Action Ultra Mag.

Out of all this, however, came the Custom MS fromthe Custom Shop in Ilion, New York. Years back, I had

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At the Remington Custom Shop,visitors can view most of the workstations from a raised floor at oneend of the shop. Remington’sModel Seven Custom Mannlichercan be chambered in cartridges upto the .350 Remington Magnum.

shows to advertise the fact thatthis handy carbine is still in thecustom lineup the shop produces.Since beggars can’t be choosers,after a short time, it appeared atmy door.

For those looking for a uniquerifle for their collection, the CustomMS might scratch that itch. Pro-filed from selected, clean-grainedhardwoods then pressure lami-nated for weather resistance, sta-bility and strength, the stock ismachine cut then finished by handto the buyer’s specifications by thetalented stockmakers and machin-ists at the Ilion plant. Having vis-ited the shop many times over the

a chance to photograph a pair ofthem made for a gentleman wholiked the rifle but had a hard timemaking up his mind on caliberchoice. He, therefore, ordered twoof them to cover the bases betweenvarmints and big game. To my sur-prise, when perusing the Reming-ton website, these rifles are stillavailable with the full-length stock,20-inch barrel and open sights.

Since it is a custom rifle built onlyon order, calling Keith Dye at theshop revealed they had one in stockin .222 Remington. It was a rifleRemington took to various trade

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Remington’sHiddenGem

Specifications:Model: Custom MS (Mannlicher stock)Action: Model SevenStock: selected hardwood laminated stockCartridge tested: .222 RemingtonCartridges Available: .223 Remington,.22-250 Remington, .243 Winchester,6mm Remington, .250 Savage, .257Roberts, .260 Remington, 7mm-08Remington, .308 Winchester, .35Remington, .350 Remington.

Barrel length: 20 inchesOverall length: 391⁄2 inchesSights: hooded front blade, adjustableramp rear sight

Weight: 61⁄2 pounds without scope,mounts or ammunition

Finish: satin finished laminated stockOptions: the list is longPrice: $2,991Manufacturer: Remington Custom Shop

Left, the floorplate is neatly installedand is opened by a small latch at thebase of the trigger guard. Below, thereceiver tang is polished and flowsright into the wood.

past 20 years, I can tell you it isone of the best, up-to-date customshops around, dating back to thetime when Eliphalet Remingtonforged every barrel and madeevery stock by hand.

This Mannlicher is no exception.For starters, the rifle is chamberedin a dozen cartridges from the .222Remington to the .35 Remingtonand .350 Remington Magnum. Withits short barrel and natural point-ing ability, I find the rifle is in itselement for everything from var -mints to larger game. The sample.222 Remington pointed instantly,and before I left the range, I tookthe scope off and with the opensights could see it as a perfect toolfor hunters running a trapline withit easily strapped to a backpack.

The stock is pure classic in de-sign, with a straight comb that isideal for open or optical sights. Atthe muzzle, the stock is anchoredto the barrel by way of a polishedcap and held there via a machinescrew. Moving back, the inlettingis perfect, as it hugs the wood withjust enough room for a thin sheetof paper to slide between. About 6inches from the tip of the stock,

there is a bedding point, the firstof three that hold the action to thestock. Progressing toward the re-ceiver, epoxy bedding takes overforward of the recoil lug, againaround the inside of the stock andin and around the stock screws.Rear of the magazine assemblythere are twin reinforcing stockscrews to prevent splitting. Takingnote of the barrel channel, eachgunsmith places his name, and notto my surprise, friend Pat Bielan-ski did the honors on this rifle. Pathas built a number of rifles for me,and every idea I wanted to be in-corporated into a custom rifle wastaken care of, right to the smallestdetail.

The stock is finished with a satinexterior; smooth to the touch, it’s

flawless. On the forearm, checker-ing is done in a point pattern exe-cuted at 20 lines per inch with aborder. On the rear of the pattern,an arrow design has been incorpo-rated for a personal touch.

The pistol grip is rather full, theway I like it, but you can have ityour way. The grip has a pleasingsweptback look and is finishedwith an ebony grip cap sans spacer.Like the forearm, there is amplecheckering that is stylized to therifle with the “arrow” at the topand customized to the sweep ofthe grip. The stock does justice to

Above, adjustable rear sights are furnished but may have to be adjusted

to allow a scope to be mounted. Right, typical of Remington rifles, the safety has two positions and

the bolt knob is checkered.

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standard equipment. When mount-ing a scope, you may have to jogthe rear sight up higher on theramp to accommodate the objec-tive lens. I mounted a Leupold VXIII 2.5-8x 32mm scope, one of myfavorite optics for all-around use.The smaller-than-normal frontlens (34mm verses the customary40 or 42mm) makes mountingeasy and fits right in with the trimlines of the rifle. Leupold two-piece bases and rings were used.

and nothing is modified or alteredfrom its production department.What you get is fully custom allthe way from the stock to barreledaction. On the test rifle, the re-ceiver is carbon steel and is drilledand tapped for commercial scopemounting systems. While on thesubject of sights, for those whomight be hunting in dense woods,a hooded blade front sight and an adjustable ramp rear sight are

the shorter Model Seven actionand gives the impression it ischambered for a much larger car-tridge. The butt is again full, thecomb is straight, and there is araised cheekpiece on the left sideof the stock. Length of pull is 131⁄2inches, but again, it’s your choice.The rifle is finished with a one-inch solid pad with a black spacerand sling swivel studs.

The action is done in the shop

Left, the grip has a nice rearward sweep and is complementedwith checkering and an ebony pistol-grip cap. Above, theforend is also nicely checkered.


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Range Testload velocity group

(grains) (fps) (inches)

55 Hornady Spire Point 2,878 .5050 Remington PSP 3,123 1.5050 Winchester PSP 3,048 1.25

Notes: All three-shot groups fired at 100 yards.Loads chronographed over an Oehler Model35P 10 feet from the muzzle. Temperature was65 degrees Fahrenheit.

cartridges and three rounds forthe .350 Remington Magnum. Thefloorplate and trigger guard arealuminum finished with a deepblue-black coating. The followerdoes contact the bottom of the boltduring travel, something I thinkcould be worked on to make theaction smoother in operation. Thebarrel tapers from .620 inch at themuzzle to 1.190 inches at the re-coil lug with the same quality pol-ishing and bluing that sets thisrifle apart from production ModelSevens.

At the range, a small crowd gath-ered to see this distinctive Rem-ington. With the exception of ayounger shooter who had neverseen a Mannlicher-stocked riflebefore, most of the veteran huntersgave a thumbs up. They were sur-prised that Remington even pro-duced a rifle like this, and whenthe price was mentioned, althoughthey still liked the rifle, mostwished Remington could squeezeit into a less expensive or limitedproduction run.

After sighting in, I fired off a boxof ammunition to mildly break inthe barrel and remove any leftoverfactory lube. Settling down in arest position, at 100 yards, threeshots with Hornady ammunitionwent neatly into a .5-inch group.With its 55-grain bullet at 2,878fps, I would be happy with thisround for a variety of New Eng-land small game. Remington 50-grain Pointed Soft Points printed1.5 inches for three shots at justover 3,100 fps; Winchester came inat 1.25 inches with 3,048 fps.

On a scale of 1 to 10, I rate theCustom MS at a 9.9. The other 0.1would make it perfect if the shopcould find a way to bury that fol-lower a little deeper into the re-ceiver, thereby enhancing theoperation of the bolt. I know thatis nit-picking, but in general I likethe rifle.

For more information, contactthe Remington Custom Shop, In-ternal Box #109, 14 Hoefler Ave.,Ilion NY 13357; or visit online atwww.remingtoncustom.com.

Left, the rifle performed well with regard to accuracy, feeding and ejectionof the .222 Remington cartridge. Below,

with Hornady ammunition, at 100 yards, .5-inch groupswere evident.

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my years shooting Model Sevens,I’ve never had any ejection prob-lems. Like the rest of the action,the receiver is polished to a deepblue, which is most fitting to a finecustom rifle.

The bolt is typical Remingtonwith twin locking lugs with an an-

tibind slot on the right lugthat mates with a racewayand ensures trouble-freeloading and ejection. Aplunger ejector and bladeextractor in the bolt faceprovide smooth ejection

of spent cartridges. Behind thelugs, bolt diameter is .700 inch andis jeweled for appearance. Thebolt handle has a slight jog to the rear for convenience, and thebolt knob is checkered on bothsides. Finally, a bolt shroud pro-tects the cocking indictor; whencocked it fits flush to the rear ofthis cover.

The trigger broke at exactly 31⁄2pounds without a trace of slack.Magazine capacity is quoted as fiverounds for the .222 and .223 Rem-ingtons, four rounds for most other

Up front under the receiver is therecoil lug that sits in the epoxybedding of the stock. Round in de-sign, it’s easier to manufacture thanmore complicated receivers, as itis made from bar stock. In all, itlooks and feels like a miniatureModel 700 even to the design ofthe bolt. Almost 21⁄2 inches shorterthan comparable 700 actions, how-ever, it is easy to make a rifle thatonly tips the scales around 61⁄2pounds, as does the Custom MS.

A single gas escape hole on theright receiver bridge protects theshooter in the unlikely event a car-tridge lets go. The ejection port isproportional to the cartridges therifle is chambered for, and in all

The Model Seven bolt features twin locking lugs, a plunger

ejector and a blade-type extractor. The bolt face is recessed.

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