Best 221 Fireball Loads
In January of 1. 98. I installed a 4 contour, SS, Lothar Walther, 1 1. Sako Rhimakki sporter with a bore ruined by a cleaning rod. I had an old chambering reamer re sharpened and re ground with a. Dave Manson. Forming dies were bought from Redding and 2. Necks were turned on Wilson equipment, primers by Lee tool and the entire reloading set up for two BR chambered rifles put in one Kennedy tool box because I was traveling five days a week and wanted a third rifle to shoot ground squirrels with and be able to reload in a motel room. Re sizing is by neck bushing only and done with a plastic mallet and the die is held by hand. Seating by Wilson hand die. From Varmint Hunter Magazine This article originally appeared in Varmint Hunter Magazine, a publication of the Varmint Hunters Association V. H. A. It is reprinted. I loaded fifty rounds with 4. Noslers and Re. 7. I wanted at least 3. Kfps so I had loads starting there and going up in half grain increments and as I remember four or five different seating depths to try. The last time I ever shot on a pubic range was west of Salt Lake City to zero and test that rifle for the first time. It was a calm day with lots of winter mirage. I found it strung shots vertically until it hit the magic spot just over 3. Best groups were low. A fired case re chambered in any orientation and primers were still plenty round to give good case life. That night I loaded more than a hundred rounds to shoot the next day, and the day after and the day after that. At 3. 10. 0 rounds, it no longer picked the particular sage rat nipple I was aiming at and I suspect true group size was probably near 78. I set the barrel back two threads. Magpies which are about 2. MOA. The rifle consistently hits thumb sized JV sage rats at 1. My rifle is 4. 0 inches long, 8 lbs even with a Leupold 4 1. X in old Bueler mounts. I have the identical set up in a small 6mm wildcat caliber and that pair are my go to varmint rifles. Both rifles have original wood stocks with barrels bedded carefully. There has never been any glass anywhere and they certainly arent free floated. My Fireball load does not usually exit a coyote at less than 2. I use it for calling and have shot them at shotgun ranges and the bullet does not blow out the other side. The longest shot by me was a measured 4. Two years ago, an internet friend with bad cancer came to see me. I bragged on the Fireball and decided to show him how a good rifle shot. The target was at 1. It was a red tar paper collar an inch in diameter on a small galvanized nail. Im zeroed 1. 1 high and I estimated the offset and showed him a bullet hole in the red plastic through the spotting scope. The second round knocked the plastic aiming point off the board. Free Download Garmin Unlock Generator V1 5. THEN the fire startedIm in the Sage Brush Sea and Cheatgrass is an invasive grass that turns into 9. June. My range had been cleared of ALL grasses by backhoe and Roundup for at least eight feet around the target frame and all steel targets deflect upwards so no hot fragments can hit the granite and gravel soil. It took fifty BLM firefighters, a dozer and an air tanker to put out the fire that raced up the mountain with nothing to stop it but Great Salt Lake 8. The BLM investigator did all the measurements and photos and determined the nail hit by the Fireball caused the fire that jumped the fence and burnt up a good bit of BLM grass, but the next week, lightning started one just across the canyon that burnt 9. Im sticking to targets that have hair or feathers. The only reason the. Ammoguide Interactive also has load listing s for the. Remington fireball Cartridge. The Peter Pan Syndrome Dan Kiley Pdf. Found 105 loads for the. Remington Fireball And Quoting Ammoguide. Best 221 Fireball Loads' title='Best 221 Fireball Loads' />Varmint hunting for California Ground Squirrels with Pictures. Fireball is not more popular is that not enough people know what a pleasant rifle it is to shoot. Very little noise, no recoil to interrupt a view of the target and its easy on barrels, brass and cases. I have some that have 2. Im having to throw away some of the original cases made for the gun, but I have at least a thousand more formed and ready for neck turning, pocket uniforming and flashhole deburring. I vote Fireball over 2. K Hornet just because really good Hornet actions are so hard to find.