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Offline Jerry Lester

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Got me a new varmint rifle!
« on: April 25, 2005, 06:09:26 PM »
I traded around, and got a new Remington LVSF in 221 Fireball. I put a 3-9x40 Leupold on it today, and got busy working up a good groundhog load for it. I settled on 50g Balistic Tips, 17.9g of Rel-7, and CCI BR-4 primers. This load is running about 2900 fps, and with the limited accuracy testing I did, seems to be a real tack driving load.

I went ahead, and loaded up 50 rounds of it for a little "wringing out" session in the morning. This rifle should make a dandy little groundhog gun!
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Offline muzzleblast525

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« Reply #1 on: April 25, 2005, 06:29:12 PM »
Just got the same rifle today in 22-250, and can't wait to get out and shoot it this week.....
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Reloading the 221 Fireball
« Reply #2 on: April 28, 2005, 04:24:28 PM »
I have a 2004 special run 700 Rem. LS in the 221 Fireball .1-14 In.twist 24 inch barrel. Best load so far 15.3 Gr H LilGun powder, H 40 Gr V-MAX bullet, Rem. 6 1/2 primers and Rem cases.  .47 inch five shot group at 100 Yds. I have some test loads ready to fire using Re 7 powder with the other data the same.The  May 2005 Guns & Ammo Mag. page 24 & 25 has a artical about the 221 that has reloading data.
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