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    Triple deuce

    May 31, 2022 5 minutes

    You could rightly say that the .222 is one of, if not the, most perfect cartridge ever designed. Looking just like a scale model of a .30-06, with a fairly long neck, at least in comparison to most of today’s offerings, its petite dimensions leave a lot of shooters to dismiss it in favour of the .223. That’s a mistake.

    This cartridge case was new from the ground up. When it was developed it didn’t owe any previous designs a scrap of parentage, the like had never been seen before. It was adopted quickly by the Benchrest shooters of its day and some of the records shot with it have only been bettered recently by wildcats like the 6mm PPC. That record was shot in 1973 and measured

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