222 Remington Trio, What's Not To Love

[COpredator]

Haven't been on in a while. Family and health issues have gotten priority over visiting here. Enough whining about my issues, here is my stable of 222 chambered rifles. Who else shares a love for this great old cartridge? Rifle on top, Remington 700 Varmint Special from 1967, then a Remington 722 from 1952, and lastly my wife's 788 from 1966. I have another in the process of being built, blueprinted 700 action done by Kampfeld, Hart 1:14 twist barrel in small palma, and a mcmillan stock. Will post pictures when it's complete

 

[22magnum22]

Haven't been on in a while. Family and health issues have gotten priority over visiting here. Enough whining about my issues, here is my stable of 222 chambered rifles. Who else shares a love for this great old cartridge? Rifle on top, Remington 700 Varmint Special from 1967, then a Remington 722 from 1952, and lastly my wife's 788 from 1966. I have another in the process of being built, blueprinted 700 action done by Kampfeld, Hart 1:14 twist barrel in small palma, and a mcmillan stock. Will post pictures when it's completeView attachment 33415

That has to be an early 788, looks like walnut stock. I think first year was 1967 and they dropped the walnut in 1969. I have 223 and 243 model. Beautiful trio!

 

[Linvol Webb]

Have 2 a 700 and 788 .

 

[KeithS]

That 700 of yours is just beatuful. I bought my first 222 a few weeks ago. It's a 722 made in 1956. It came with a Weaver K10 fixed power scope which is in great shape, clear, not cloudy, but the fixed 10 isn't great for me as a calling rifle so I put a 4-16 Vortex and sighted in again just today. I bought a couple of boxes of Nosler ammo with 50 grain HP and am very impressed with the 70 year old's accuracy, low report, and how smooth the rifle is! It was a good purchase. Over the Chronograph it hit the published figure from Nosler at 3250 fps. It appears to be all original, but someone added a pistol grip butt cap an also added a pressure point at the end of the stock. But it doesn't look bad and shoots great so far. Looking forward to working up so coyote loads for this with 50 grain Vmax or BT.

Keith

 

[AWS]

Triple deuce fan here too. I need to get on the big computer to post some pics. I have a spare 722 222 barrel I picked up to screw on to my Rem 600 if anything happens to the 6x45 barrel on it. Still have the 222 Savage barrel I won the Egg Shoot with. The deuce is one of my favorite cartridges for calling preds

Valmet 212 12ga/222 Rem

Sako Vixen full stock

Dressed for the ball, getting the job done

788 222 Rem one of the prettiest 788s I've seen

Painted a plain 788 stock and put the old rifle to work

The Eggshoot gun Savage 10

Win Model 70 222 Rem

 

[spotstalkshoot]

I have a hankering for a 788 in 222. I have loaded for a couple friends that inherited rifles, makes a reloader feel good when 1/2" groups are easy.

 

[Jerryrigged]

Still have my dad's M600 in 222.

 

[WyoBull]

I have a beautiful 722 Custom (I think that is what they called it because it has hand checkering and really nice wood from the factory) in 222 Rem. I had another 722 that was plain jane for many years but sold that one. I have been shooting this caliber since the late 70's and love the triple deuce. It has it's place for sure and I use it mainly as a shorter range calling rifle. This caliber and the 220 Swift are what I started with back in the day and still shoot both calibers, each of them being my favorite varmint calibers.

The 722 is extremely accurate and easy to load for and I have loaded a lot of different bullets and powders for it over all those years.

 

[jmeddy]

Yea Erich, that 788 is a real eye catcher.

 

[AWS]

Over the years I've found it is almost harder to find a load that doesn't work than one that does. And if the barrels still has any rifling left they seem to shoot well.

 

[DAA]

788 222 Rem one of the prettiest 788s I've seen

That might be "the" prettiest 788 I've ever seen. Gorgeous!

I don't have a .222. But I sure recognize it as one of the most historic factory chamberings ever to be introduced. 75+ years old and still no flies on it.

- DAA

 

[lewwetzel]

A few 24”, heavy-barreled Mexican-market .222 CZ 527s showed up in the US a while back; sold new for around 600 bucks. Still kicking myself for not buying one.

 

[Nimrod44]

I'm a fan too! I have a H&R Ultra Wildcat which is a Sako built rifle in .222. It loves 40gr. bullets.

 

[Jasonc78]

Haven't been on in a while. Family and health issues have gotten priority over visiting here. Enough whining about my issues, here is my stable of 222 chambered rifles. Who else shares a love for this great old cartridge? Rifle on top, Remington 700 Varmint Special from 1967, then a Remington 722 from 1952, and lastly my wife's 788 from 1966. I have another in the process of being built, blueprinted 700 action done by Kampfeld, Hart 1:14 twist barrel in small palma, and a mcmillan stock. Will post pictures when it's completeView attachment 33415

I don’t own the caliber. But I love these guns regardless of the caliber these are my cup of tea! Nice collection