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222 1-12 twist rate loads

Post by bigrich » 22 Dec 2018, 12:16 pm

hey fellas, anybody loading for a 1-12 twist rate 222, and does this faster twist (1-14 being the original) ,affect powder choice at all ? would like to hear a few opinions and load recommendations. i have AR2205 ,AR2207, AR2206H, BENCHMARK 2 and AR2208 to play with. looking at using 50 gn nosler bt's, maybe looking at a 60 gn load later. the likely starting point is ar2207 methinks . thanks in advance :drinks: :thumbsup:
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Post by JimTom » 22 Dec 2018, 12:59 pm

Mate I think 55gn projectiles would be about the biggest for a 1:12 twist. I dont have a .222, but this is the case for my .223.
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Post by bladeracer » 22 Dec 2018, 1:08 pm

JimTom wrote:Mate I think 55gn projectiles would be about the biggest for a 1:12 twist. I dont have a .222, but this is the case for my .223.


Depends on bullet length, not weight. A blunt FB SP 60gn might work just fine, a 55gn BT might not.
Boat tails and polymer tips make bullets significantly longer than a flat-base exposed lead nose of the same weight.
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Post by bigrich » 22 Dec 2018, 1:47 pm

i've heard 55 gn were marginal whether or not they work in a 1-14 twist in a 222, was hoping the change in twist might make it more do-able to use bullet weights over 50 gn. the 50 nosler bt's will probably be fine for me, but heavier projectiles gives me more options. if i could get 60 gn partitions to work that would make it a very useful 222 :unknown:

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Post by JimTom » 22 Dec 2018, 1:50 pm

bladeracer wrote:
JimTom wrote:Mate I think 55gn projectiles would be about the biggest for a 1:12 twist. I dont have a .222, but this is the case for my .223.


Depends on bullet length, not weight. A blunt FB SP 60gn might work just fine, a 55gn BT might not.
Boat tails and polymer tips make bullets significantly longer than a flat-base exposed lead nose of the same weight.


Yeah mate I know twist rate and stability relates to projectile length, not weight, however as a general rule the heavier they are the longer they are. Of course there are a few exceptions.
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Post by bladeracer » 22 Dec 2018, 2:14 pm

bigrich wrote:i've heard 55 gn were marginal whether or not they work in a 1-14 twist in a 222, was hoping the change in twist might make it more do-able to use bullet weights over 50 gn. the 50 nosler bt's will probably be fine for me, but heavier projectiles gives me more options. if i could get 60 gn partitions to work that would make it a very useful 222 :unknown:

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I was chatting with a guy on FB the other day. He has a .22-250 12"-twist and reckons the Speer 60gn SP works fine. I don't know if it will be but might be worth a try if you're looking for a heavier bullet.
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Post by bladeracer » 22 Dec 2018, 2:25 pm

JimTom wrote:Yeah mate I know twist rate and stability relates to projectile length, not weight, however as a general rule the heavier they are the longer they are. Of course there are a few exceptions.


If they're the same design then heavier will be longer. Start comparing boat-tails, monolithic, HP and BT though and the differences get significant.
Just looking at Hornady they have six 55gn bullets varying from .697" for the soft-point up to .808" for the boat-tail VMax BT. They offer two 60gn bullets that are shorter than the VMax. A Barnes monolithic brass 55gn bullet though is up to .898" long - 5mm longer than the Hornady SP.
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Post by marksman » 22 Dec 2018, 3:39 pm

I find benchmark2 to be a good powder behind 52 grain sierra's, lapua cases and remington primers :drinks:
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Post by bigrich » 22 Dec 2018, 6:08 pm

bladeracer wrote:
bigrich wrote:i've heard 55 gn were marginal whether or not they work in a 1-14 twist in a 222, was hoping the change in twist might make it more do-able to use bullet weights over 50 gn. the 50 nosler bt's will probably be fine for me, but heavier projectiles gives me more options. if i could get 60 gn partitions to work that would make it a very useful 222 :unknown:

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I was chatting with a guy on FB the other day. He has a .22-250 12"-twist and reckons the Speer 60gn SP works fine. I don't know if it will be but might be worth a try if you're looking for a heavier bullet.


caught up with stoney in person this arvo, and he was kindly gave me some 60 gr vmax to try . i know what your talking about with bullet shape and length, in my 22 krico hornet it loved these short fat sierra "hornet" sp that shot better than 40 vmax. ya wouldn't have guessed to compare the two...... :D
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Post by JimTom » 22 Dec 2018, 6:12 pm

bladeracer wrote:
JimTom wrote:Yeah mate I know twist rate and stability relates to projectile length, not weight, however as a general rule the heavier they are the longer they are. Of course there are a few exceptions.


If they're the same design then heavier will be longer. Start comparing boat-tails, monolithic, HP and BT though and the differences get significant.
Just looking at Hornady they have six 55gn bullets varying from .697" for the soft-point up to .808" for the boat-tail VMax BT. They offer two 60gn bullets that are shorter than the VMax. A Barnes monolithic brass 55gn bullet though is up to .898" long - 5mm longer than the Hornady SP.


Can’t argue with that. Bit of work involved in that post. Cheers mate.
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Post by Stoney » 22 Dec 2018, 7:17 pm

bigrich wrote:
bladeracer wrote:
bigrich wrote:i've heard 55 gn were marginal whether or not they work in a 1-14 twist in a 222, was hoping the change in twist might make it more do-able to use bullet weights over 50 gn. the 50 nosler bt's will probably be fine for me, but heavier projectiles gives me more options. if i could get 60 gn partitions to work that would make it a very useful 222 :unknown:

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I was chatting with a guy on FB the other day. He has a .22-250 12"-twist and reckons the Speer 60gn SP works fine. I don't know if it will be but might be worth a try if you're looking for a heavier bullet.


caught up with stoney in person this arvo, and he was kindly gave me some 60 gr vmax to try . i know what your talking about with bullet shape and length, in my 22 krico hornet it loved these short fat sierra "hornet" sp that shot better than 40 vmax. ya wouldn't have guessed to compare the two...... :D


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Post by AZZA'S HJ47 » 22 Dec 2018, 7:22 pm

Will hopefully be getting my 222 back soon from Swan after making the call to replace the barrel on the old duck. I decided to go for a 1-12 twist barrel. I will be doing some testing in the New year. My plans is to use the 55g super roo as my projectile. Cheap cost effective have to wait and see. Fingers crossed the combo works.
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Post by JimTom » 22 Dec 2018, 7:54 pm

From memory the 55gn Speer Sp are around $185/1000.
I grabbed a box around $200 some time back.
They seem to go alright.
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Post by bigrich » 22 Dec 2018, 8:19 pm

AZZA'S HJ47 wrote:Will hopefully be getting my 222 back soon from Swan after making the call to replace the barrel on the old duck. I decided to go for a 1-12 twist barrel. I will be doing some testing in the New year. My plans is to use the 55g super roo as my projectile. Cheap cost effective have to wait and see. Fingers crossed the combo works.


funny you should say that azza, i picked up my 222 winchester on wednesday from swan's . mine was in just for the barrel . hopefully yours wont be too much longer. they're flat out though, allan rang me at 7:30 at night to tell me it was ready :wtf:

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Post by bigrich » 22 Dec 2018, 8:26 pm

here's my baby. i bedded and floated it and tru oiled the stock while the barrel was being done
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Post by bigrich » 22 Dec 2018, 8:39 pm

i ran in the barrel at belmont on friday (ripley is closed till the fourth :( ) , yes i'm OCD. brushed and patched after every shot for first ten, then after every five from then on. put close to thirty through it so far . i used a mild load of 20.5 gr of ar2206h with a 50 gr hornady sp . thanks for the load Daddybang :thumbsup: i reckon it was going slower than a hornet :D ADI list 2466 FPS for 20 grains , still it didn't group too bad. bit of a cross wind didn't help. i reckon it'll close up with ar2207 and a boat tail nosler BT . with a little sear polishing and a bit of adjustment, the triggers beautiful with zero creep. happy daze....... :drinks: :drinks: :thumbsup:
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Post by AZZA'S HJ47 » 22 Dec 2018, 9:56 pm

bigrich wrote:
AZZA'S HJ47 wrote:Will hopefully be getting my 222 back soon from Swan after making the call to replace the barrel on the old duck. I decided to go for a 1-12 twist barrel. I will be doing some testing in the New year. My plans is to use the 55g super roo as my projectile. Cheap cost effective have to wait and see. Fingers crossed the combo works.


funny you should say that azza, i picked up my 222 winchester on wednesday from swan's . mine was in just for the barrel . hopefully yours wont be too much longer. they're flat out though, allan rang me at 7:30 at night to tell me it was ready :wtf:

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Mine is in for much the same new barrel decided whilst she was down to get a cerakote job done on the rifle as it will be one of my hunting rifles predominantly. Have skso refinished my stock and will re do the bedding once its all home.
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Post by bigrich » 22 Dec 2018, 11:06 pm

super roo's hey azza ? i might have to look into these :thumbsup:
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Post by bigrich » 23 Dec 2018, 8:01 am

the only winchester ammo that's worked for me was 22 hornet 46 gn hp's . under 1" at 100 out of my rifle. wasn't cheap though :roll: there is a lot of 22 projectiles out there, i had bin using nosler 50 gn bt's. these are a sturdier bullet than vmax supposedly with a thicker base to prevent blow up.i also have 50 hornady soft point flat bases, which were about $29 for 100 i'll shoot some different ones and just see what works i guess . i'm not a high volume shooter, so cost isn't as important as accuracy and projectile performance to me :thumbsup:
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Post by AZZA'S HJ47 » 23 Dec 2018, 11:05 am

bigrich wrote:the only winchester ammo that's worked for me was 22 hornet 46 gn hp's . under 1" at 100 out of my rifle. wasn't cheap though :roll: there is a lot of 22 projectiles out there, i had bin using nosler 50 gn bt's. these are a sturdier bullet than vmax supposedly with a thicker base to prevent blow up.i also have 50 hornady soft point flat bases, which were about $29 for 100 i'll shoot some different ones and just see what works i guess . i'm not a high volume shooter, so cost isn't as important as accuracy and projectile performance to me :thumbsup:


I have other rifles that I intend to shoot more the 222 will be a designated hunting rifle my expectations of a bullet are a little high but kind of a given as i dont want to educate foxes/cats by missing them. If i can find something that i can shoot around a1inch- 1-1/2 @ 200 ill be happy.
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Post by bigrich » 23 Dec 2018, 11:32 am

AZZA'S HJ47 wrote:
bigrich wrote:the only winchester ammo that's worked for me was 22 hornet 46 gn hp's . under 1" at 100 out of my rifle. wasn't cheap though :roll: there is a lot of 22 projectiles out there, i had bin using nosler 50 gn bt's. these are a sturdier bullet than vmax supposedly with a thicker base to prevent blow up.i also have 50 hornady soft point flat bases, which were about $29 for 100 i'll shoot some different ones and just see what works i guess . i'm not a high volume shooter, so cost isn't as important as accuracy and projectile performance to me :thumbsup:


I have other rifles that I intend to shoot more the 222 will be a designated hunting rifle my expectations of a bullet are a little high but kind of a given as i dont want to educate foxes/cats by missing them. If i can find something that i can shoot around a1inch- 1-1/2 @ 200 ill be happy.


from what i've seen my 222 do at 100 on the old barrel, i don't think your expectations are too high at all. when i first got it, with 18.5 gn of ar2205 and 40 vmax i could make one hole at 100 ! i was stoked ! then after a few cleans it started to shoot funny. upon closer inspection, cleaning had taken copper out of pitting in the barrel and it never shot that well again. however, i could still average 1" at 100 with 50 noslers, with a pitted barrel and a loose spot 6" from the muzzle ! i think your desired group size at 200 is totally acheivable, so long as it's not a windy day ;)

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I have been fortunate to find Winchester PSP 50gn in a few shops.They come in a plastic bag and were $17.95/100 with 22.2gn 2208 they replicate the highland factory ammo and have the same POI so all my reloads and if I need new cases or am feeling lazy I can buy 100 highland with confidence that they will be good.When I first started doing Kangaroo damage control I reloaded 52gn Sierra Matchkings and they were super accurate but I had a few get up and hop out of sight and some did not expire immediately any nylon tip bullet would work well and I tried all sort of combinations.2205 left a white residue in the barrel??so that was used up in the Hornet.The PSP bullets will blow up and go through any cat fox shot in the boiler room and on very large roos it blows out half the head about the size of your fist and I have never had one get up ever this is all shot under 100 metres and more like 50 metres.
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Post by bigrich » 23 Dec 2018, 12:42 pm

ar2207 works well for me with 50 gn bullets and burns clean . ar2206h burns dirty in my barrel. might have to do a test on ar2208 just to see :thumbsup:
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Post by AZZA'S HJ47 » 23 Dec 2018, 12:49 pm

bigrich wrote:ar2207 works well for me with 50 gn bullets and burns clean . ar2206h burns dirty in my barrel. might have to do a test on ahr2208 just to see :thumbsup:


I found that my best groups were with 2207 i had also loaded up a few with 8208 that was showing promise. Not bad considering that the throat was all washed out and pitted. I also have some 2206 and 2208 to play with.
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Post by duncan61 » 23 Dec 2018, 1:37 pm

I developed a 2208 load because at some point I purchased 4kg so I am being slack and use it in .222 .243 and 100gn pills in 7mm Rem
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Post by bigrich » 23 Dec 2018, 5:23 pm

hey fellas, what primers do you like in 222 ? rem 7 1/2 or cci 400 ?
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Post by AZZA'S HJ47 » 23 Dec 2018, 7:21 pm

Just using winchester primers cant say ive ever played around with diffrent primers.
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Post by bigrich » 23 Dec 2018, 8:08 pm

the winchesters are probably the same sort of small rifle primer that the cci 400 are. the rem 7 1/2 are a benchrest primer that burn a lot hotter . supposedly designed for the 222 . i'll try the 400's and see how i go i guess . i've used the 400's to shoot one hole groups with 40 vmax on the old barrel . i did a few different powder weight loads in ar2207 and benchmark 2 just before. man ,the benchmark 2 gives a full case, i had to swirl fill the cases to leave enough room for seating the projectile . ADI don't list it as a compressed load, but it must be close :?

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Post by AZZA'S HJ47 » 24 Dec 2018, 7:43 am

I much prefer a full case as opposed to something only half full. I have found the usually to be a little more consistent.

That being said hate hearing a crunch when reloading too.
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Post by bigrich » 24 Dec 2018, 9:44 am

AZZA'S HJ47 wrote:I much prefer a full case as opposed to something only half full. I have found the usually to be a little more consistent.

That being said hate hearing a crunch when reloading too.


your right there. all the loads that work well in my rifles have pretty full case capacity. i've been getting amazing accuracy out of 120 nosler bt's in my 6.5x55 with a really full case of reloader 22. accuracy wise, works better than 140's , possibly due to twist, maybe due to a fuller case ? on the last 222 barrel the ar2207 performed best with 50's, i'm hopefull that BM2 will perform better now cause i have a bit of it and it really fills the case . no crunch but :D

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