Does anyone own one of these or have any experience with them? My hunting partner just had one built for long range coyote hunting this coming winter, we often run into 500-600 yard opportunities that in most cases we stalk in closer. Any thoughts?

IV

Educate me - what is a .224 TTH????

its a 22-6mm wildcat that has a fast twist barrel to shoot the heavy .224 bullets ie greater than 75grns. it should really reach out and touch em, load er up with some 75grn AMAX's it should do the trick

A .224 TTH (Texas Trophy Hunter)is a 6mm Remington necked down to .224. The claims are that is the most efficient use of case capacity with larger .22 bullets (70-80 grains)

IV

Sounds like a throat burner to me....

I know the 6mm/284 has a very short life span when 75 and 80 grain bullets are run at high velocity thru it... I don't think that would decrease with a 6mm Remington case instead....

But if you gotta do it, have fun with it!

cheers
seafire

this was originaly called the 224 clark when it came out in the 60's, but never had much of a following. It was however a great longrange round. I did a 22/250AI with a 8" twist hart barrel to shoot the 80 gr sierras & that shoots like a streched rubber band. You can find the clark info in old gun digests or I believe in wilcats book

I read an article on the .224 TTH in Shooting Times magazine and the author of the article says he used one for deer hunting on a game /ranchfarm in Texas. 11 shots and 11 dead deer. It was a cull hunt he was invited on, hence the number of deer killed.

The premise is that a small bullet will not kill deer, but the other side of that is the velocity and the energy left when the bullets gets to its target is what matters. The author of the article says how many times you heard of a deer being hit with a 30-30 and getting up and walking off?

Gunsmith friend of mine in Arkansas built one and he loves it. I asked about the reloading data for it and he says not use use 6MM data, but the data for a .220 Swift. Go figure.

I think that if you don't load it as hot as you can, the barrel will prolly last as long as anything else. Just because you can shoot something really hot, doesn't mean you have to.

if you don't wanna run it hot, why not just stay with a 220 swift, the whole reason for the 22-6mm is to push the limits, I think if you wanna shoot praire dogs this aint for you, but for coyotes or long range stuff it could be great, if you shoot slow and only here and there the barrel should make it well past 1000 rounds how many rifles actually see more anyways

The 224 TTH more or less equals the original 224 Clark. Originally designed to use heavy (80gr) 22cal bullets with velocity @ 3400-3500fps. Original loadings were between 51 and 59 grs of H450 or H870. If this isn't a real barrel burner, I don't know what is.

I have, thanks to Mr. Horace Gore (Tx. Trophy Hunter Magazine) been shooting a custom .224 TTH for about 4 years. I shoot 75 gr. A-max bullets @ 3500 fps and believe me this is a VERY lethal load! I have use this combo on white-tails, hogs, and Axis deer just to name a few and have never felt under gunned! It is very flat shooting and varmits never know what happened. I am now working with the 75 gr. Swift scirocco at the same velocity and it too displays outstanding performance! All in all, I would say, get one and experience the thrill for yourself!!!!!!