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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](https://reseuro.magzter.com/100x125/articles/7146/943763/wzF6E6vY91658311836193/CIMARRON-3220-SHORT-RIFLE-CARBINE.jpg)
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.
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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.
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Coyote Bullets
What is Best for You?
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Remington's 5mm Rimfire Magnum
Shooting a Classic
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Winchester's New Wildcat
The Ultralight Rimfire Varmint Rifle
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.223 Remington from .30-30 Winchester?
Multitasking for Varmints
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LOADS FOR A .22 TCM
The .22 TCM first appeared commercially in 2012, chambered in a Rock Island Armory 1911-style handgun.
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Everybody Loves Velocity
The 4,500-fps WSSM Project
![A BOLT-ACTION FRANCHI 224 VALKYRIE](https://reseuro.magzter.com/100x125/articles/7146/943760/o_3wtrkRH1653641507832/crp_A-BOLT-ACTION-FRANCHI-224-VALKYRIE.jpg)
A BOLT-ACTION FRANCHI 224 VALKYRIE
Testing New Loads
![.22 Winchester Magnum Rimfire](https://reseuro.magzter.com/100x125/articles/7146/943760/1P77w5p_L1653647884573/crp_22-Winchester-Magnum-Rimfire.jpg)
.22 Winchester Magnum Rimfire
Shooting Revolvers