The biggest issue I had when reloading the Hornet was the thin necks crushing during bullet seating. I never had a case head separation in my Krico 22 Hornet, but I crushed about 10% of the cases during bullet seating. I know, people use Lyman M dies successfully, and some people only shoot boat-tailed bullets, but I was shooting 40 gr flat-based jacketed or gas-checked cast bullets over Unique or 2400 powder, so there was a sharp corner on the bullets that would often get hung up on the chamfered case mouth, leading to collapse of the thin neck when seating the bullet.
If I were looking at a new rifle in the calibers discussed by the OP, I would look at the 17 Fireball. Almost the same velocity as the 17 Remington with about 2/3 the powder charge.