I always check google's ngrams for questions like this, and their corpus shows "home in" being far more common going back as far as 1800. https://books.google.

I always check google's ngrams for questions like this, and their corpus shows "home in" being far more common going back as far as 1800. https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=home+in%2C+hone+in&year_start=1800&year_end=2019&corpus=26&smoothing=3&direct_url=t1%3B%2Chome%20in%3B%2Cc0%3B.t1%3B%2Chone%20in%3B%2Cc0#t1%3B%2Chome%20in%3B%2Cc0%3B.t1%3B%2Chone%20in%3B%2Cc0 https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=home+in%2C+hon...