Home Forums Reloading Varmint Rifles your favorite bullet for .222 remington..

My old Remington 722 is accurate with about anything that is assembled right. But the best bullet so far is the old Nosler 50 grain solid base lead tipped, ( I have about 400 left). It is also very accurate in my Swifts. Hornady 50 graing V-max is excellent also. My standard load in 222 is 24.5 grs BLC-2.

79inpa,

Back in the good ol' days, when I only had one rifle for varmints, it was a 788 in .222 Remington. Fitted with a Leupold 8x, it would put the Speer 52-Grain hollow-points, (the one with the BIG hollow-point!) pushed by BLC-2, into one ragged cluster. And man did it do a number on ground squirrels and crows!

But, like I said, that was the good ol' days. Now I have multiple varmint rifles that cost way more than that 788/Leupold combo, and not a single one of them shoots any better. Oh well, live and learn!

Good luck with your reloading adventure!

Rich

That is a cool old piece, you should get it out and give it some exercise.

I kind of have a thing for the Speer 50 TNT, I've found them to be very accurate, very deadly and about as cost efficient as I can find.

You may wanna consider giving them a go.

Dober

My 788 in .222 loves 40 grain VMAX's and Benchmark. I won't trade it for anything. Ugly as a baboon's butt, but oh how it shoots. I shoot Pdogs and ground squirrels out to and beyond 300 yards.

RJ

I have used the 60 gr. Hornady HP and SP for years on deer with perfect results. What few bullets I have recovered were perfect mushrooms. Most i have gotten nickle size exit holes.

I like the 40 gr. bullets such as the Vmax on varmints. but the 50 and 52 gr. Sierras work well and shoot very good.