In the late 50's, I was a high schooler and a buddy would pick me up to go shoot crows in the rural community where I was raised. He had a .222 Rem. 722 with a K-8 Weaver and I was learning to checker at that time. I did a skip a line pattern, popular back then, on that gun, as it was pretty plain looking. Years later, I traded him a pistol for that rifle. The barrel had seen better days by then and I had it fitted with a med heavy SS Hart and it now wears a 10X Zeiss I bought used. It shoots about like you would think it should.

+1 for Ball C in the .222. That was our favorite powder back then, using 50 gr. Sierra's. Actually most any reasonable load will shoot pretty good in the .222. It's one of the most forgiving calibers to load for and a good one to begin with.

Gun is the middle one in this photo.

DF

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