Remington 700 .222 rem. mag

getfoxy

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A friend of mine aquired a Remington 700 in .222 remington mag. I looked on Remingtons web site and found a .222 rem, but not a mag. I looked at every model under the 700 line but could not find it. ????????? Where can I get some info on this rifle if the manufaturer dont even provide it on the web site????
 
Dig deep. Remington hasn't offered the .222 mag since the 70's, as far as I know. Brass is scarce, too. Seems to me the cartridge is more popular in Europe than it is here in the states. It is also the case the .204 Ruger is based upon. Ballistically it is virtually a twin to the .223 Remington, maybe a hair better velocity wise.

Kaiser Norton
 
I think Remington no longer makes the 222 mag, just the standard 222. The 222 mag is a lot like the 223 in ballistics. Friend of mine has a 222 mag in a Sako, that is one fine rifle.
 
I really like the look and feel of the rifle. You just cant find shells to shoot it. I guess Im gonna have to find a handloader. I would like to know the twist rate but cant find it.
 
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I really like the look and feel of the rifle. You just cant find shells to shoot it. I guess Im gonna have to find a handloader. I would like to know the twist rate but cant find it.



If you have a cleaning rod and a tape measure it's not hard to determine the rate of twist.
 
been shooting a 222 rem. mag since 1964. Real fine round.Little faster than the 223.Perfect coyote gun.
brass is easy to get. Just have to order it.
 
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My father-in-law has one. He's had it for years. I may have to knock the dust out of it for him one of these days. I may end up with it some day, just never know /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/confused1.gif.
 
If you look long enough you can buy ammo for it but it is real expensive, but I guess every thing is these days. I found it online about 2 years ago for a friend of mine. He just bought a new rifle insead of the ammo. If you can find brass I am sure it would not cost to much to reload. Later J.J.
 
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I really like the look and feel of the rifle. You just cant find shells to shoot it. I guess Im gonna have to find a handloader. I would like to know the twist rate but cant find it.



The .222 Magnum is an excellent cartridge.

The twist rate on your rifle is 14". If you handload, you can load soft point bullets up to 55 grains, and plastic tipped bullets (V-Maxs and BlitzKings, etc) up to 50 grains.

Brass is almost always in production, but sometimes it is out of stock... just ask your dealer to order it for you, or you can order it from some of the handloading mail order dealers.

Loaded ammo is a little more expensive, because it is a limited run cartridge, but Remington does load it on a limited run basis.

If you guys don't want to keep the rifle, drop me a PM /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif


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222 mag was Remington's first offer to the military before the 223. It's an excellent cartridge. It holds about 1 grain of powder more then the 223 and velocities are that much better. It's also a better designed case than the 223 but the military wanted something a little smaller so the 223 won out and the 222 mag has faded away. Brass and dies are easy to obtain but you have to order them. Since there are a number of cartridges built off the 222 mag case, like the 6X47, I would imagine brass will be available for some time to come. Seems to me that I saw a Cooper offered in 222 mag about a year ago.

Cabelas offers factory loads for the 222 mag but it costs a pretty penny. Better off to reload. It's a great cartridge.
 
I own one in a Sako Vixen. Excellent cartridge. A little faster than a 223rem.

Brass can be obtained from a variety of places. You can take a 204 Ruger case and run it through a FLS die for the 222mag, or get 5.6x50Mag brass, trim and run it through the 222mag FLS die, if you want brass other than Remington.
 


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