Hi buddy.

Back off my good friend 10bands Catch!

Thats true enough!

I've been shooting a .222 Rem for nearly 50 years. Mostly coyotes, but quite a few deer, pronghorns, and black bears. Accuracy and bullet placement are key, and the .222 Rem. is consistently about the most accurate gun I've ever run across. To each his own, however. I load my own, but I've never seen a shortage of .222 ammo at the stores. Seems like a common caliber.

I only know the rifle is an "old" Savage with iron sights, that's what the owner said. I haven't got to look at the rifle yet. He recently told me he had a rifle "he thought I needed". I noticed he seemed proud to talk of by gone coyote adventures while carrying this rifle, presumably in the '70's and 80's. Like I mentioned before I felt like buying this rifle just "because".

As for ammo availability this rifle includes brass and loading dies, so that is nice. I had looked to see some factory ammo was out there as well.

Thanks for everyone's input on the .222 Remington. I'll make plans to bring it home.

Suddenly feels like I just opened the bag of dog treats...

I think there's a 222 rem mag too, but it's really tough to get ammo for them.


Use my 222 for turkeys in the fall..

10bands, I have the same gun and I use the same bullet. I and my kids have shot hundreds of our ground squirrels with it. Good caliber to start youngsters with. I will pass that gun on.

I shot my first buck with a .222 Remington when I was 12. 14 inch 6 point through the heart. It was very accurate. I expect my nieces and nephew to shoot their first deer with it.

I'm guessing his Savage is a 340. They're not pretty and have a not so good trigger and once you get past that, it'll be a shooter.
The .222 mag is a beast. You can occasionally find some old stock factory ammo. Brass is out there. Ya have to dig, but it's out there. I purchased a reamer several years ago. We've rechambered 12 or 15 triple deuces to mags.
55 gr nosler bts seem to sing the best in my 700.
Had a friend that shot a factory Sako Vixen with a mannlicher stock in 222 mag. Beautiful rifle!!

I've shot a lot of things from fox coyotes to deer and antelope with one the .222 is a scaled down version of a .30-06 top it off with a quality 6x scope and you will be very happy with it I done well with the 52 gr bthp Sierra match bullets.

I have 2 of them and they are both Remington 788s 😎

Good caliber. Have even shot deer with it.

Have a sako.222 and love it.

The .222 is one of the few calibers that nearly everybody that owns one has nothing negative to say about it.

No reason to make brass from .223 brass, new .222 brass is readily available. At one time the .222 dominated the bench rest game. The "bigger is better" philosophy caused it to be eclipsed by the .223 and .22-250 because of the greater range for killing varmints, but the .222 is a lot more fur friendly than the others. I have had a 788 in .222 for 50 years now.

At one time the .222 Rem did hold the world bench rest record. Anybody that owns one would be foolish to sell. They ALL shoot well.

Have one in 788. Very good shooter. Would like to find a spare magazine for mine. Planning on putting a Timney trigger in it eventually. Did a bedding job on it couple years ago.

most accurate rifle ive owned. had a 788 and loaded 6 different loads for it and all shot same place and under one inch!!! different bullets too. never had that happen ever