Now this is a historically important caliber you don't see very often- can you guess?

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If you look at the book behind the cartridges, it contains information on a bit more historically significant round.

7.5 x 55 Swiss, often credited at being one of, if not the first mass produced rounds to use a copper jacketed projectile.

We take that technology for granted because it's been around over 100 years.
 

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If you look at the book behind the cartridges, it contains information on a bit more historically significant round.

7.5 x 55 Swiss, often credited at being one of, if not the first mass produced rounds to use a copper jacketed projectile.

We take that technology for granted because it's been around over 100 years.
Yep.
 

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It's surprising how many Savage 24s you see that have the rifle barrel chambered in .222.

When I was a kid, (mid-60s) I had a book called "The Varmint and Crow Hunters Bible". All they could talk about was the .222.
 

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With the .223 being on the left, I was thinking of a far scarcer round, the .222 Remington Magnum. The round the .223 beat out in military trials.
 

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I had a Ruger mini 14 chambered in .222. it wasn't any more accurate than the .223. traded it off for something better.
 

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Once during an ammo shortage I accidentally bought a few boxes of .222 from a store like an idiot thinking it was .223…. Oops lol. Took me awhile to get rid of them. Learned a lesson about thoroughly reading ammo boxes
I’ve never done anything like that………. today.
 

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This past weekend I just got done with load development for my 222.
50s model savage 340b.
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