Hello everyone,


I don't have any experience with a .222 Remington, I would like your thoughts on the cartridge. Good, bad, or otherwise I've never shot one.

I have an old friend that has offered to sell me one of his old rifles in this cartridge. I'll probably buy the rifle either way, just because who doesn't love a rifle with history.


Thanks for your help,

Drew

If I remember right, one of my instructors has one or at least has experience with the cartridge. I think he likes it, I’ll ask him and see what he says. Then I’ll report back.

Love mine yote duster. 300 yrd. Bout max

Not sure, I bought one a year ago, haven't shot it yet. I was kind of in the same situation. I was offered to purchase a older savage chambered in 222 and figured why not. It is my understanding that it is very similar to 223, slightly less "powerful"

I’m a fan of the triple deuce for sure. Very accurate round. Was my Grandpas varmint round of choice. Old friends gun? What model? No matter, I’d buy it in a heartbeat.

Been shooting one or another for 50 years. The 722 Remington in this caliber was an affordable varmint rifle released in 1950-just in time for the bench rest craze. It would still be very popular if the military had not not adopted the 5.56. There was also a .222 Magnum very similar to the .223. Even some European firms chambered the .222.

One could call it the forerunner of the 223Rem and they have very similar ballistics. I think there is still a relatively good selection of factory ammo to be had off the shelf and it is easy to reload as well

Forgot to add, it is still a popular rifle for fox and co in europe these days

I think it's a good round just hard to find ammo for it.

yes it is slightly shorter parent case of 223rem

not many people who have them dislike them it will do most of what a 223 can but it will have a slower twist barrel and favor the 40-50 gr bullets which it will get cooking along 32-3400 for the 40s and 2800-3000 for the 50s

they were often very very handy light rifles that were chambered in 222

also called tripple duce

Thats what I feel too. I like a gun I can easily find ammo for.

I buy 95% of my ammo online and my two favorite sites usually have several options. I think it’s about .50 per round for FMJ.

Super round! Shoots flat and a real dog stopper. Ammo is available at most gunshops, Wal-Mart carries it, at least around here, and is easily available on-line. It is not anymore expensive to shoot than a .223 for hunting loads.

I have 2 and have taken coyotes with both ones a savage and ones a remington 700.Great round for sure It will shoot 40 thru 50 grain bullets very very accurate.I haven't had any problem finding ammo at sportsmans or cabela butI never buy ammo for them as i hand load.Nate's got it right on 300 max tho I did kill a yote at about 350 with a 50 grain nosler b.t. had to hold about 3" over his back.

if you reload you can form cases from 223 brass , lube well I like lanolin oil when making new cartridges from other cases but a little lanoline oil cheap isopropyl fuel line anti freeze gas additive in a plastic bag roll the cases around in the bag it puts a very thin coat on so you don't get case dimples from too much lube then run it into the sizing die. I run in and out 3-4 times as brass can have some spring back then trim and load , some times you have to neck ream but most of the time i can get away without it.

I'm not sure would matter how well it shoots or if its good for anything but being able to say you shoot "A Triple Deuce" is enough of a cool factor to make me want one!

yes loved my triple duce 300 about max wish I still had it was a real tack driver

I have a couple old Sako Vixens in .222 used them all the time for fox and groundhogs back in the day. Loaded 52 grain speer hollowpoints. Tack drivers. Also had a Savage O/U .222 over 20ga. mag. for fox back then too.

They are great got 3 of them. Roll my own for them

I found a Remington 722 in .222 20 years ago at a gun show. It was about perfect maybe never fired. Anyway, first three shots with it were 1/2" inch at 100 yards. Backed up to 200 yards and got 1/2" again. Hard to beat that. I've used it for coyotes with 52 grain sierra match kings. It's excellent for that but I mostly use it now for our mini prairie dogs/ground squirrels with the 40 grain V-max. It's one of a handful of guns I'll never sell. Might give it away to the right person some day though.

Lots used for hunting Turkey around here.