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Originally posted by elton:
I was really fun to pick this nice sako up in 222. Loaded some Re7 and 50 gr sierra's was great fun.
Elton

Elton

Yours looks just like the one I just picked up. Will try to have pics of the rifle and targets by next week. Very excited.

My sako was made in 65'. I loaded re7 20gr. with 50 gr blitz. .010 off lands. Got tiny groups and really fun to shoot. The crows are going to have a hard time around my house soon.

As promised, I am posting pictures of my new-to-me Sako Riihimaki .222 full-stock. I have mounted a Leupold Ultralight 2x7x33 which works really great on this super lightweight rifle. I made a trade with Cabelas to land this one, and while at Cabelas picked up 4 boxes of PPU factory ammo with 50gr pointed soft points. This ammo is made in Serbia, I've never even heard of PPU???

As you can see in the pictures, considering my lack of perfect shooting, hasty rest, and a rifle manufactured in 1958, this baby is really accurate with lousy ammo.

It's a keeper!!!!!


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I think the real trick with a .222 is finding one that won't shoot. I bought a 788 in .222 while I still lived in WV. The owner said the barrel was shoot out. The bore looked like a piece of sewer pipe. I figured I'd give it a good cleaning and see just how bad the barrel was. I took about a ton of copper out of the barrel and shot it. It didn't do bad so I cleaned it some more. And it shot better. For a couple of weeks I'd scrub on the barrel and then shoot it. It ended up a sub moa shooter.

Ive owned some .223s and its a excellent caliber and you can come by used brass much easier and cheaper...I still prefer the 222 Rem to anything else for my use..I like the 40 gr. Nosler Balistic tips, on everything up to but not including coyotes and deer..I like the 60 gr. HP or SP Hornady for the larger stuff..it knocks a hole thru them most of the time..Ive used it in the 222 and 22-250 with outstanding results for the last maybe 40 or probably more years..All my kids, grandkids, grew up shooting deer with the same 222 Rem in my gun cabinet.

Thanks again for all of the replies. This rifle is a shooter, best groups so far are .3" and worst are around an inch. I wish I had bought a rifle in this caliber years ago. I really enjoy shooting this one, most of all I enjoy spotting my hits.

Carlsen

What are your favourite "non-varmint" bullets in that 1 in 14 Sako? I love my Sako 222's.

Thanks.

Ray is right ...everyone needs at least one 222. I've had several and never seen one that wouldn't shoot.Until recently I was down to one rifle chambered in 222. A nice little Tikka M55. Very good shooter. A couple months ago an almost new looking Krico rifle in 222 followed me home.Did a little load development work with it and found almost the exact results that I found with the Tikka and a Rem rifle I had before the Tikka. 19 grs of IMR 4198 is an accurate load with just about any 50 gr bullet. However 19.5 grs results in a significant difference in the point of impact. Checking my records I found the old Rem rifle I had changed the POI a little over 3 inches from warm weather to cold. It gets to be a pain having the re-sight every time you want to use that rifle. H335 cured that problem in the Rem and in the Tikka. Low and behold in the Krico 5 different powder charges (21 grs, 21.5, 22, 22.5 & 23) grouped under an inch @ 100yds with H335. I'm sure there are several powders that will group for you but I have found that H335 is hard to beat when you use the rifle in changing weather conditions.

The clip fed L-46 is the King of the Sakos, its just a an awesome little rifle..Had a number of them over the years, but they just kept doubling in price and I got lustful for profit and cash..Did't know when to stop..If I ever fetch another it will have a home for good!