22GT

[Bowhunter-tw]

Would running a lighter varmint bullet like the 60-75gr range be defeating the purpose of 22gt? Im looking to get a little more speed than 223rem but also dont want to be burning a barrel like 22creed supposedly does. Id also still like to be able to feed from a magazine where something like 22BR or BRA is said to struggle. 22ARC seems interesting with a bit more capacity over 223 but the ability to shoot 60-75s in the 3000 fps range

 

[Hondo64d]

Had Jon Beanland spin up a .22GT barrel for my hunting rig. As per usual, the chamber is perfect.

And, as expected, it shoots. These are rounds 30-35. Four of the five went into .127.” The “flyer” opened the group to .452.”



Took the same load my match gun likes, zeroed, and the next morning killed a small whitetail buck at 420 yards. 1st pic is inside view, entrance side. The next is inside view exit side and last is outside view exit side.







A little more load development produced this group out of my hunting rig.



John

 

[urbanrifleman]

Had Jon Beanland spin up a .22GT barrel for my hunting rig. As per usual, the chamber is perfect.

And, as expected, it shoots. These are rounds 30-35. Four of the five went into .127.” The “flyer” opened the group to .452.”



Took the same load my match gun likes, zeroed, and the next morning killed a small whitetail buck at 420 yards. 1st pic is inside view, entrance side. The next is inside view exit side and last is outside view exit side.







A little more load development produced this group out of my hunting rig.



John

That is pretty darn nice.

I have one of John's lathes.

 

[skeetlee]

I have chambered several now here in my shop all my customers seem to love this chambering. we shoot long range steel mostly and we like the Berger bullets. I have a great reamer if anyone thinks they would like to have one!!
Lee Gardner Precision

 

[G Love]

If a guy wanted to shoot 73 grain Bergers and the occasional 69TMK, would the .120 be too long? JGS has a .077 that some guys are using for 60's. I wonder if it would be enough. I'm buying one either way.

 

[nakneker]

I love mine, had it made to shoot 50-60 grain bullets and it does it well. Itty bitty groups. I like it well enough I’ll probably build one set up for 75-85 grain VLD types of bullets. The Alpha brass is correctly head stamped and after 13 firings with a stout load shows no signs of stopping. I’m using the GT SAC die for this rifle. I don’t know the freenbore, I seated three 55 grain bullets in the Alpha brass and sent them to JGS. Zack at ODCR did the work, if anyone wants to know the freenbore I can find the reamer print Im sure. Great cartridge!

 

[urbanrifleman]

If a guy wanted to shoot 73 grain Bergers and the occasional 69TMK, would the .120 be too long? JGS has a .077 that some guys are using for 60's. I wonder if it would be enough. I'm buying one either way.

77 Fb would work for everything except the 90s. 80 and down is good.

 

[spitfire_er]

Put one together a month ago for a guy to shoot yotes and occasional PRS. Without looking at the print I think we did a 120 FB for heavies if he wanted. He's been shooting 62gr eldvt. He's relatively new to precision reloading, so I asked how it's shooting and his answer was "it's shooting really good". Never got a solid answer on group sizes, but by the sounds of it, it must have been shooting pretty good cause he was really happy with it.

 

[Frankm]

Any idea of his velocities with that 62 gr VT ? Hornady says .395 BC and thinking a guy could tickle 3300-3350 quite easily …. Be a lazer to 600-700 yards