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Just picked up a Remington 722 in .222 Rem Mag., anyone have a pet load? Thank you and Good Shooting.
turbine1 Life Member of the NRA Only two defining forces have ever offered to die for you. 1. Jesus Christ 2. The American G.I "One died for your soul, the other for your freedom!" You might want to pass this on, as many seem to forget both of them!
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335 and a 50gr V-Max would be a good start.
Travis
Trump being classless,tasteless and clueless as usual. Sorry, trump is a no tax payin pile of shiit. My young wife decided to play the field and had moved several dudes into my house
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28 grains H-335, and a V-max 40 grain bullet makes it the killingest 22 caliber out there. It was around and kicking ass way before some idiot AI'ed the 223...
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So Shrap ol Buddy.... you think the 222 Rem Mag is BETTER than your 220 Swift or the plain jane 22.250?
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If someone made me keep only 1 22 centerfire, it would be the 222 mag...
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Travis and Shrapnel,
Thanks for the input, I will try both loads and see which she likes best.
turbine1 Life Member of the NRA Only two defining forces have ever offered to die for you. 1. Jesus Christ 2. The American G.I "One died for your soul, the other for your freedom!" You might want to pass this on, as many seem to forget both of them!
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She will love this one...
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There are lots of good 222 Mag powders out there.
748, 335, 2230, BLC-2 will all give top speeds and accuracy with varmint weight bullets and easy metering. Older stuff like 3031, 4895 and 4064 has always worked. A 1969 IMR manual shows 27.5 grs of 3031 kicking a 50gr Hornady at 3,570 at 50,000psi. I used the same load and hit 3,500.
I happen to like Benchmark the best with 40 or 50gr. bullets.
26.5-27grs. will clock 3,500 in a 23.5 inch barrel with 50 grainers and I run 29 grs. for 3,900 with the 40's. If looking for newer data/powders to work with, 5.56 NATO data will get you to about the same pressure as the SAAMI .223 Remington, but you still need to work up.
Its not worth a hoot for varmint splatter, but THE most accurate 100yd. load out of 4 222 Mags I've shot (even a fast twisted one) is 27 grs. Benchmark, 53gr Sierra MatchKing, Herter case and a Fed. 205 GM.
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She will love this one... Shrap, you provide some of the most entertaining pictures... That is what makes shooting varmints so much fun....Love blowing up sage rats like that... and I tend to like the performance of the good old 40 grainers for how well they make things like that happen...
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28 grains H-335, and a V-max 40 grain bullet makes it the killingest 22 caliber out there. It was around and kicking ass way before some idiot AI'ed the 223...
Im wondering how a .222 mag would be AI'ed�.. Gotta find a good Sako and run a reamer into it!
"...the left considers you vermin, and they'll kill you given the chance..." Bristoe
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That reminds me, I have an unused 222 Mag reamer here.
Do you have any .223 barrels I can improve?
And please, no gay twist rates.....
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Do you have any .223 barrels I can improve?
Ive already Improved three of mine. GFY
"...the left considers you vermin, and they'll kill you given the chance..." Bristoe
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Do you have any .223 barrels I can improve?
Ive already Improved three of mine. GFY That's called neutering a 222; but it might be spaying since they were .223's.....
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Campfire Oracle
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Reaming it out to a mag is neutering a .222
"...the left considers you vermin, and they'll kill you given the chance..." Bristoe
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No.
It "magnums" the 222.
Got some here to scramble, but the damn things are all 1-14.
But some .223 barrels......
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Was shooting a bit of long range the other day and thought Id try the old Rem 'build' I put together, this one� It turned in a 1.25 inch group at 425 yds.( 425 was where my buddy put the backstop�.dont ask, don't tell) Schitty old 1 in 14 twist�shooting 50 Vmaxes...
"...the left considers you vermin, and they'll kill you given the chance..." Bristoe
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Just got another Remmy 222. Thing put two weight bullets into the same cluster with a 2x8 Leupy....So I affixed the 10x FX and plan to come close to that... How the hell was there no wind in Montana? Nice. That is above "panache"....
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We got up early, before the wind started. Mine ( both) like anything in a 50 grainer, but they LOVE those Vmaxes...
"...the left considers you vermin, and they'll kill you given the chance..." Bristoe
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I see you don't hesitate to scoop up the 300.... Now I see why. Good snag.
Have Dog
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Those were Amaxes. Never tried them�they'll go into a .223AI
They're too good for the antiquated .222Mag.
"...the left considers you vermin, and they'll kill you given the chance..." Bristoe
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