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Anyone shoot a 222 rem. ? I bought this gun for yote hunting. I am gonna load 50 grain hornady v-max bullets.
 
What is the difference between a 50 grain Hornady Vmax and a 50 grain Hornady SX? I used to shoot the SX and it was excellent but now am getting back into shooting the .222 and am going to roll up some pickles and would like to know more about the Vmax. My old load used to be 23.5 grains of BLC2 with the SX out of a 722 Remington. Extremely accurate. Does anyone use IMR 4320 in this calibre? Regards Gerald
 
I used H322 and H4198 lit by CCI BR4 primers. did try some WCC 845 and H335 with very good results but not as good as the Hodgdons at longer distances.

Stayed with the moly 50gr TNT's which were great but did vary sometimes from lot to lot. The Vmax has better ballistics, would actually suggest the 40gr. Wonderfully accurate bullets and can make things go poof.

A superb cartridge that you will love once you start shooting it. Have had 4 over the years and all shot really well.

Jerry
 
Like Mystic, I also used H322 for my .222 a lot.
I also use H4198, and Varget.
For bullets, the TNT and the Sierra Varminter are the onees I use, but thhe TNT is my goto bullet in that littlee rifle.
IMR4198 or RL7 were the ONLY powder most benchrest fellas would use when the .222 was king.
For a genereal walking varminter in a light rifle or hunting varmints over bait and calling in the afternoon, IMHO the .222 Remington is a hard number to beat.

It'll get 'er done out to 300 with little trouble in the afternoon, will not do undue damage to a coyote or fox at close range , and is decently quiet but fast enough to desentigrate bullets when in farm country.
Great cartridge to this day, althgough some would say it is
"obsolete"!!:D
Cat
 
I loaded 100 shells with 50 gr. hornady v-max, 26 gr BLC-2 , rem. brass and magnum small rifle primers. Gonna get a scope on friday and hopefully on my next days off the coyotes won't know what hit them.
 
adog, according to my Hodgdon load book your load is a full grain above max.:eek:

I don't know were you got the load from...... but I would start at a much lower load and work up to what your rifle is capable of.

ps: start with 10 rounds per load till you know what your rifle likes.

brnolvr
 
brno, I got that "recipe" from the speers loading manual and the previous owner also told me that his best sucess was with that load. I never heard of BLC-2 until he told me about it.
 
For what its woth.....I handload for two rifles in .222. I just checked my load data and my Lyman manual, Speer and Hornady books all say that a max load is 26 grains of BLC-2 with approximately 44000 copper units of pressure. The Nosler lists at 25grains with a 50 grain bullet. I personally have never had good results in velocity with BLC-2. My chronograph always reads 200fps shy of whay listed data claims. Maybe a couple of bad lots of powder.
I agree with BRNOLVR that you should work up to that. Thats up there in pressure and with that powder, will likely be a compressed load.
 
actually the powder was not quite halfway up the neck of the casing. I think my shells are 2.2" (can't remember) they fit nicely and weren't reall compressed
 
Adog, like the others, start low and work up. BLC'2, like any powder, can vary greatly from lot to lot. Unless you have the same powder and components as the previous owner, starting with his data can be very dangerous.

I made that mistake when I used the same data but with different lots of powder. Had a nice time hammering open the bolt and digging out the case.

Early days in reloading, got careless but got really really lucky.

You are trying to get the dogs. Not them licking up your pieces.

Jerry
 
The guys are right you should always work your way up,Your right on the max load for a 222 but powder varies from lot to lot.If you end up with a fast lot you could get into trouble.I had that happed to me with H 322.
 
The all-time great accuracy load in the 222 is 19 gr of IMR 4198 and a 50 gr bullet. It has won countless matches and dispatched thousands of varmints.

It is still a very fine load that won't strain the rifle.:cool:

Ted
 
Why not? said:
The all-time great accuracy load in the 222 is 19 gr of IMR 4198 and a 50 gr bullet. It has won countless matches and dispatched thousands of varmints.

It is still a very fine load that won't strain the rifle.:cool:

Ted
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I agree with the 4198 load.
BL C2 is also temperature sensitive. I experienced that in that accuracy suffered when the temp dropped down beow 10 degrees. Of course the dogs won't know the difference but if you are shooting gophers at 100 +yards you won't always hit them..
Jim
 
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