MI2600
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I recently purchased a 10" .222 Remington barrel for my Contender and I'm looking for load data. My old manuals only show rifle data with small rifle magnum primers. Are these still needed in a handgun?
Loading data for a Contender .222
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rcmodel
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What 'old manuals' do you have??
The only reason you would ever need Magnum primers in a .222 Rem might be for use with some ball powders that are harder to light off.
My older Speer manual for instance only show mag primers (noted by an *) with a very few types of ball powder.
But, regardless of all that.
.222 Rem data is .222 Rem data, regardless of barrel length.
Use what you have, with the primers you have.
Then start at the Start load and work your way up.
rc
The only reason you would ever need Magnum primers in a .222 Rem might be for use with some ball powders that are harder to light off.
My older Speer manual for instance only show mag primers (noted by an *) with a very few types of ball powder.
But, regardless of all that.
.222 Rem data is .222 Rem data, regardless of barrel length.
Use what you have, with the primers you have.
Then start at the Start load and work your way up.
rc
Unfortunately all I see in the T/C section is 221 & 223 - seems they skipped the 222. Although, I have the 14" version and just assumed the rifle data would work fine...
Patocazador
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I load H4227 with a 55 gr. Hornady in my 10" .221 XP-100. It can't be that much different for a .222.
Experiment and see.
Experiment and see.
MI2600
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I'm using an old Lyman 45th which probably predates Contenders. The only powders listed are the likes of IMR 4198, IMR 4895 and Rx7.
Just looked at the Hornady #9 and it has .222 data for the T/C 10" barrel in the handgun section (.222 data starts on page 680 in the ebook version). Their published data is with Winchester WSR primers. The beginning writeup claims VIHT N-130 and IMR 4198 performed best in the "short" barrel across the range of Hornady bullets tested.
MI2600
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I picked up some 52gr BTHP bullets and found some IMR 4198 load data. But, no COL info for that powder. There was another powder listed for that same bullet but it listed a COL of 1.825". There's NO WAY that can be correct because it would put the mouth of the case about half way up the ogive. The brass alone is 1.7".
I loaded four cartridges with a COL of 2.075" (the mouth of the case at the start of the ogive) and they kerplunked ok...probably could have been longer.
Standby for test results.
I loaded four cartridges with a COL of 2.075" (the mouth of the case at the start of the ogive) and they kerplunked ok...probably could have been longer.
Standby for test results.
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I loaded 18.5gr of 4198.
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