powder recomendation

[craig-g]

im wanting to reload my 222 with 50gn vmax. any advice on a decent powder? ive been told reloader 7 good..for a 16in barrel hw60j, dont know the twist.. thanks

[amc577]

Lyman book gives Reloader 7, 4198, 3031, 4895, 4064,4320, for 45/50/53/55gn FMJ. Recommends 4198, 3031 for best accuracy.

amc577

[Half MOA]

If I were a betting man, twist will be 1 in 14.

It's never easy to recommend powder (or components) for someone else's rifle, but when I owned a Tikka 595 in.222 my pet load was....

H322 -23.2 GRAINS

BERGER VARMINT (MATCH GRADE) 50 GRAIN BULLET (MOLY COATED)

LAPUA BRASS

FEDERAL GOLD MEDAL MATCH PRIMER

You could spend a fortune buying 3 or 4 tubs of powder completely uneccesarily, and my advice to you is to buy a powder that is recommended for the calibre, and build up a load from there. Good quality brass that is prepared properly, and finding the right bullet for your rifle, is just as important as powder choice.
H322 gave extremely impressive and consistent results in my rifle with these bullets, and good load densities in the .222 case, but my rifle did not get on with either V-MAX, or NOSLER B-T's at all, HORNADY A-MAX gave similarly impressive results, but are not (technically) suitable for hunting.

**Please leave at least 10% off the above load if you do decide to try it, as it is in fact a tad higher than possibly recommended in some reloading data**

Hope this helps.

[TheJim]

I use 20-5 grns of H4198 for my Tika T3 Varmint and it seems to like it ive tried RL7 and its not as good and my rifle hates V-max

[sundog]

I've found Vihtavuori N-133 to be very good in my 222.

[bewsh]

what can you buy locally?

buy that!

N130-133
RL7
H322 - H335
IMR 4198

any of those will work