When I was a poor starving college student, I wanted a .223 bolt action for varmint shooting. Not being able to afford a shiny new Remington Varmint Special, I settled for a 788 in .222. The plan was to rechamber it to .223. I bought a box of Winchester factory .222 ammo to establish a baseline, and was simply blown away. Shooting off the hood of my car using an old Weaver 6X scope, I was printing 5-shot hundred yard groups you could cover with a dime. Needless to say, it did not get re-chambered.
