AusVarmint

Since the 222Rem's pretty popular on almost every continent I thought you guys might like to see one I put togeather for vermin shooting last year. Unfortunatly I didn't get it finished untill our local Ground Squirrels and Rock Chucks had gone underground for the winter, but I did get some load work done so she's ready to roll at the first sign of a little head popping up above ground this spring.

The rifle started as a plain vanilla 700SPS sporter chambered in 223.
After shooting it in factory form to see if the barrel was worth saving (it was) I sold off the stock, X-poo trigger, and bottom metal, and then dropped the barreled action off at my smith's. He squared the action, lapped the lugs and raceways, surface ground the recoil lug, cut a nice hunter crown, setback the barrel back, and rechambered it to 222.
I installed a nice old school remmy trigger, pillar bedded in one of Boyds Classic ADL , stocks, and topped it off with a 4.5-14 VXIII in Warn med. rings.




Soooo, for about the same cost as a factory Remchester I have something different than the crowd, built to my tastes and needs, and chambered in one of my favorite old chamberings.
Oh yea,,,, shoots pretty good too.

Very nice I too love the .222 Rem. great little cartridge. I have always used 50gr Vmax pills in mine for hunting, but now Im playing with the 40gr Vmax/Zmax and AR2219 (H322) with great results. I have a two .222's both are Sako A1's one a sporter the other a HB varmint. I have yet to blood either of them some day soon though

Here the varmint


Here with my .223 Sako 75


A typical group at 100m with 40gr Vmax


And here with 52 SMK at 100m (22.3gr AR2219). mind the flyer

Nice looking rifle that really bucks the trend Field Grade as the thing to do with a 222 over is to rechamber to 223.

I have 1 triple at the moment with another arriving in a week or two I hope the new arrival shoots as well as yours and Mulga`s.If not it will become "something else"




Long Live the Triple

MISSED wrote:Nice looking rifle that really bucks the trend Field Grade as the thing to do with a 222 over is to rechamber to 223.

Yikes!!!
Ream a 222 out to 223,,,, never!

Bet your new one shoots good. It's pretty hard to find a tripple deuce that doesn't.

Very nice mate.

Hey missed, that repeats what I was saying on your topic, but with pics.
If I may bang on a little more, the case that should have been the 204 ruger

Johno