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I personal don't thing this round will be a big seller. They should have necked this case up to 6mm and called it the 6mm Nosler


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It's already selling very well.

I would guess, based on some experience, that Nosler just might offer a 6mm version. But not right now, since they're already trying to fill the demand for the .224 version.


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Kind of interested what cartridge would do in SBRs. My agency now issues 11.5-in. Colts to most all officers.

An increase in MV would be a good thing; though I think it'd take awhile for the bean counters to give thumbs up.

We considered 6.8s awhile back but that never happened; shame.


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My gunsmith friend shoots 50 grn bullets out of his 26 inch 22x6.8 at 3750.

No, that's not 22-250 velocity, but with all the "nearly", "on the heels", "efficient", "short action", and "virtually" the manufacturers have been using to sell us stuff the last 20 years, why not try it one more time?

Everyone has a different definition of "nearly" anyway.

The sales attributed to the marketing wank prove that.


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Originally Posted by Mule Deer
It's already selling very well.

I would guess, based on some experience, that Nosler just might offer a 6mm version. But not right now, since they're already trying to fill the demand for the .224 version.


Maybe I'm wrong but the WSSM's were big seller when first offered but fizzled out quick.


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Part of the reason the WSSM's fizzled was they were shaped so differently they'd only work in bolt actions specifically made for them. As a result, rifle loonies couldn't rebarrel common actions for them. The .22 Nosler works in any action suitable for the .223 Remington.

Maybe the WSSM's sold very well in the beginning, but aside from me, I've only known two people here in Montana who've owned one, and during my travels to hunt in many other places have never run into anybody else, anywhere who hunted with one.


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John have you had the occasion to work a bit with the 22 Nos?

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Have only seen a few rifles and some ammo so far, at the Nosler booth at the SCI convention a couple weeks ago. They're going to send me a bolt-action rifle as soon as they have more put together, probably in a couple of months. The initial demand has been for AR-15's, so those have been what's going out the door.


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I guess time will tell,


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The 22 Nosler has a case capacity between the 22 PPC and 22BR; anyone expecting a ballistic free lunch must be a far gone Creedmore advocate....

What the Nosler case does is maximize what can be done ballistically in .224 caliber in the mag constraints of the AR-15 without massive re-engineering and tooling of the existing platform.
A 222 Magnum or 223 AI will do this as well, but they will only gain 100 fps or so at the most, all else equal, even assuming modified magazines

The 22 Nosler achieves its goal. It will also do it in bolt actions with similar constraints without having a larger or oddball bolt face and non-domestically sourced brass or excessive case forming.


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Yeah, as I mentioned it will be a great round in small actions though I wonder what it will provide in that niche that the 204 doesn't now. Just wondering.

I can definitely see it in the ARs too, especially if it gains more than factory, proprietary status.

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The 204 suffers from not being the primary design around the CZ, the Vixen, the Interarms, and the like, nor even the short Kimber 84; its MAX COAL is a bane for it and its parent cartridge with tipped and high B.C. secant ogives or those with both.
Their design parameters were around the 222, stretching it, the 223.

The 204 suffers the same fate as it parent cartridge in ARs as well unless different magazines are used with high B.C. bullets.
Also, the 204 was designed as a varmint cartridge and requires a throating modification for bullets beyond varmint bullets, which will exceed most 222/223 short bolt magazines.


The 22 Nosler was not.


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It seems odd to me that the reason that these varmint rounds are not more popular is because they are dandy varmint rounds.



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Has anyone on this forum tried the 22 Nosler?


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I am interested in an upper for it. It sounds like enough of a jump up from the 223 to be advantageous for coyotes.


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I wish I had more input, fellas.

Its going to be March when I have more than just unfired cases at my diposal...

Looking at the case it appears encouraging; a niche for sure but I imagine it will get another hundred feet at least over my beloved 222 Magnums in AR guise.


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A buddy of mine got an upper in last week and killed a mangy coyote with it this weekend. He was using the Nosler 77gr bullets and it didn't bounce off.

I'm gonna invite him out and spring the chronograph on him ASAP. Then compare the 223AI...

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Originally Posted by Jim_Conrad
Sounds like the .22x6.8 is capable of driving a 50 grain bullet to 3650 to 3700 or so. The .22 Nosler is just a smidgon bigger, case capacity wise. Should be able to do the same.

A buddy and I are planning on buying a reamer and a set of gauges and sending them to the gunsmith.

A light varmint profile, 26 inch barrel would make a fine varmint rifle.

The gunsmith we use has a reamer to chamber the .22x6.8 in a version that does not need neck turned. He was excited that the .22 Nosler had factory brass available, with cheap dies.


An AR shooting 40 to 50 grain bullets at 3750 or higher seems like the ticket.

I guess I dont understand the problem.

So yeah, we are going to build a couple......soon as I gather all the Christmas money I have been saving.


I spoke with Nosler at the SCI Convention. They claim the 22 Nosler is not a 22 SPC. It uses SPC mags, but they claim it is a completely new case?

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Originally Posted by TWR
A buddy of mine got an upper in last week and killed a mangy coyote with it this weekend. He was using the Nosler 77gr bullets and it didn't bounce off.

I'm gonna invite him out and spring the chronograph on him ASAP. Then compare the 223AI...


That's also what I am wondering about -- what it will do in a bolt action rifle over the 223AI in which case you can also shoot standard 223 ammo. I would expect it'll beat the AI but probably not much more than 100-125 fps..(?)

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