![]() It was quickly snatched up by fox hunters torn between the barrel-eating, pelt-pulping Swift and the anemic. 222 was shorter and more slender than any rimless big game rounds of that day, whose hulls ranged in length from 1.87 to 2.23 inches and featured the. To shooters of that day, the.222 may have resembled a miniature. 219 was held to lever-action pressures.) Mike Walker, an avid Benchrest shooter, engineered Remington’s 722, first rifle to chamber the. 222 but as introduced for Winchester’s Model 64 rifle in 1937, the. (With stiff loads in dropping-block single-shots, the Zipper can edge the. It was essentially a match to the Zipper’s 56-grain bullet at 3,110. 222 load drove a 50-grain bullet at an advertised 3,200 fps. 22-250 was still a wildcat, for handloaders only. Now, ye who are ready to pounce, I’m aware the. 222 or, as it soon became known, the triple deuce. I still think kindly of all three, perhaps because their history pretty much parallels mine, or because we’ve yet to improve on them. 22 centerfire round in 1950, even as it unveiled the 870 pump shotgun. Remington announced our first commercially loaded rimless. Benchrest circuit to ’chuck pastures, winter foxes to chamois in the Alps, the.
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