New 222 rifle options?

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If you are going to do something, you might as well do it properly. So best to sell a kidney, rob a bank, pillage the neighbours. Whatever it takes to get an S&L Legacy in .222rem.

The optics carousel continues, it now has a Leica 3-18x44 on it which is, I think, the most versatile .22CF scope I have used for a lightweight walkabout rifle.

They better bury me with mine.

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Cottis said:
If you are going to do something, you might as well do it properly. So best to sell a kidney, rob a bank, pillage the neighbours. Whatever it takes to get an S&L Legacy in .222rem.

The optics carousel continues, it now has a Leica 3-18x44 on it which is, I think, the most versatile .22CF scope I have used for a lightweight walkabout rifle.

They better bury me with mine.

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Oof!

Rather lovely.
 
I’m thinking of a 222 to replace the 22-250. After using the 22 hornet for a while I went back to the big gun and found the noise a bit excessive. The 222 is is legal for roe here which is the only deer species I have access to so fits the bill really, more powerful than the hornet not as noisy as the 22-250. It would be my retirement rifle and always shot well when I only used one rifle, interesting thread , thanks Smelly.
 
Brittany boy said:
I’m thinking of a 222 to replace the 22-250. After using the 22 hornet for a while I went back to the big gun and found the noise a bit excessive. The 222 is is legal for roe here which is the only deer species I have access to so fits the bill really, more powerful than the hornet not as noisy as the 22-250. It would be my retirement rifle and always shot well when I only used one rifle, interesting thread , thanks Smelly.
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Everyone raves about the 250. A friend got one. Never was happy. The barrel was hard on bullet construction. He ended up loading it at 223 levels and it was better for him with that rifle.
If he was shooting prairie dogs with it would of been fine except it never shot really tight groups!
He bought a new stock thinking it was that, it wasn't...
I won't say what make because some will get upset.

Anyway I've never been upset with 222 and I've owned 4. One was Herman the German and that was a Friday afternoon special but the others were excellent.
BSA cf2.
Rem 700 bdl.
Cz 527.


The problem I'd have with switching to 223 is I'd probably experiment with cheap ball like an old friend did. He would remove the fmj tip or pull the bullet and seat a soft point. He did that for decades.
 
I will get a SL next, but also consider a proper Sako l46 rihiimakii .222 and rebarrel in matching blues profile from 1:14 to 1:8 for dealing with copper. Had one, sold it, regret it.
 
I went for a brand new Tikka Smelly, just the basic synthetic/blued T3x lite, hummed & hawed over either a .222 or .223, my head won the battle over my heart and I went for a .223 with an 8 twist barrel, I paid £1090 just a couple of years ago, no regrets at all from me. Once fired brass is cheap, and dies are cheap.
 
Bo Diddley said:
I went for a brand new Tikka Smelly, just the basic synthetic/blued T3x lite, hummed & hawed over either a .222 or .223, my head won the battle over my heart and I went for a .223 with an 8 twist barrel, I paid £1090 just a couple of years ago, no regrets at all from me. Once fired brass is cheap, and dies are cheap.
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Well yes....I'm resisting that model 7 as best I can....
 
Bo Diddley said:
I went for a brand new Tikka Smelly, just the basic synthetic/blued T3x lite, hummed & hawed over either a .222 or .223, my head won the battle over my heart and I went for a .223 with an 8 twist barrel, I paid £1090 just a couple of years ago, no regrets at all from me. Once fired brass is cheap, and dies are cheap.
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New brass can be had for 222 for less money than new 223 cases.
Kb.
 
My mate had a Sako in 222 lovely rifle. I remember walking down a farm yard one evening with him and it. We sensed we were being watched . Fox looking at us perched on the bale in the appex of the roof.
Bullet in his white bib sent him to heaven. Lovely round to shoot and Sako action so smooth.
D
 
I am having a .222 CZ527 that I bought in "well-used" condition (!) rebarelled by Neil McKillop.
So: a really good new barrel, on the CZ527 mini action.
I like the Tikka T3 (I have one in .308), but the form factor of the CZ527 is another thing altogether to carry and shoot in the smaller calibres.
If I could be bothered to get it cerakoted, it would be to all intents a new rifle.
I cannot wait!
 
If your an offhand shooting connoisseur the answer is - Valmet 412 / Tikka 512 combo gun - fast handling, iron sights, options for a scope mount plus a 12 bore shotgun barrel to boot.
 
I mean, you can also be classy about it and have one made on a true short action Mauser 98. Now that won’t be cheap, but doable for under £30k
 
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