A 222 Remington

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I have had my eye out for a Sako AI heavy barrel in 223 Rem but there were none anyone wanted to part with.
But Prophet River had a new old stock AI action listed. So I bought it off Clay. Shortly after I came across a minty Sako heavy barrel stock. Then a new McGowen 12T Savage prefit barrel chambered in 222 Rem was on the EE. The contour was perfect for the stock. Great!
But it would need to be chambered deeper once half the savage threads were cut off for the vixen receiver. So I needed a 222 Rem reamer. And once again the EE came through.
Rempel pieced it all together and it turned out great. 23” barrel, nice trigger. Load development with 40 vmax and RL7 so far is easy. Need to find a good-conditions day to really get serious but I’m pleased so far. I’m glad my 223 Rem dream turned into a 222 Rem.
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Im also Glad you stumbled onto the .222 Mate!
Awesome!

with that barrel, it aught to be an absolute pleasure to shoot and sight the hits with! i love my 222 for Foxes, Roos etc.

Enjoy that Rifle
 
Nice rifle... the triple deuce is one of my favorites, such an elegant little case. Good shooting!
 
Sweet rifle ..... That 222 just keeps on ticking along.

30yrs ago shooters were busy having those 222s rechambered to 223 which makes them hard to find now and worth more money. Kinda like what shooters were doing to the 300H&H up to 300WBY in the 60s.
 
Have a pair of 222, but from the days they were building them on long actions. One is a Win M70 from 1975 another is an early 80's BSA CF2. I don't care what action these were built on, the 222 will always outshoot any 223 with 55gr and under bullets. That long neck and just about perfect powder capacity makes it a silly accurate cartridge.
 
SuperCub said:
What are your loads here?
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22-22.6 gr RL 7 in 0.2 gr increments. 40 vmax, 2.15” oal. 3660 up to 3760 FPS.
Mirage got that last group as the target was moving around pretty good.
I loaded the 22 and 22.4 gr loads again. 22.4 was 5 shots within 8 FPS of each other so here’s hoping.

How is your M700 222 coming along?
 
Hitzy said:
Have a pair of 222, but from the days they were building them on long actions. One is a Win M70 from 1975 another is an early 80's BSA CF2. I don't care what action these were built on, the 222 will always outshoot any 223 with 55gr and under bullets. That long neck and just about perfect powder capacity makes it a silly accurate cartridge.
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Nice. I’d like to find an old M70 heavy barrel 222 one day.

I’m not sure the 222 is more accurate then the 223. Maybe this Sako will show me.
 
Buckmastr said:
22-22.6 gr RL 7 in 0.2 gr increments. 40 vmax, 2.15” oal. 3660 up to 3760 FPS.
Mirage got that last group as the target was moving around pretty good.
I loaded the 22 and 22.4 gr loads again. 22.4 was 5 shots within 8 FPS of each other so here’s hoping.

How is your M700 222 coming along?
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Not shot it yet .... I just got a scope for it (12x fixed Leupold) and Bonanza BR dies so there was a hold up. Brass just arrived as well.

I have a few suitable bullets here but not a lot. Hard to source more right now. Have a couple #s of IMR4198 to start with the classic powder. H355 after that.
 
Very nice! I didn't even know .222 was a real caliber until I mistakenly bought some Hornady Superformance Varmint rounds at my LGS last month, thinking they were .223. They were not. I was considering buying a .222 rifle to shoot the ammo, but I couldn't find any .222 rifles, even at the store that sold me the .222 rounds. I just sold the .222 boxes of ammo last week on the EE.

I have heard the .222 are amazing on the accuracy scale so thanks for confirming that. Sweet looking gun and it looks like amazing work was done to get it to the finished product.
 
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