22khornet or 223

[Catfish]

I`ve never had a K-Hornet, but I did have a Savage 340 in .22 Hornet. Some days it was a real tack driver and others it did group, but patterened like a shotgun. It`s one of the guns I lost in a fire and needless to say not the one I miss most. The Hornet is a great little round and one that blowing out the shoulder will get you a real gain that you can see in the field. I think you`ll be happy with the Savage. I rember when they made crap for guns. Then they started building guns that would shoot good, but after you did all the fit and finish the factroy didn`t do. Today they are findly doing the fit and finish and from what I`m hearing are one of the better out of the box shooters. Since I don`t buy new guns I have to relay on what I hear and what I see from friends guns I help setup.
Now if you didn`t have the K dies already, I might recomand the the .17-K Hornet. I have one of them and push a 19 gn. bullet at 3,600 fps. Point blank range abt. 290 yrds. with 10.4 gn. of H-4227. A sharper crack than the .22 Hornet, but not any louder.