Beautiful rifle. Those old Sako's are works of art! Your dad had good taste in guns. Both the .222 Rem and .222 Rem mag. are great cartridges. In regards to the primer blow-out, I don't think you damaged your dad's gun. The bolts and receivers are built to handle high pressures and escaping gases. What happened in your incident was the firing pin struck the primer and forced the entire cartridge forward (because a .222 case is shorter than the magnum version), there was enough space to blow out the primer. When I saw the 4198 powder loading, I immediately thought that it was a .222 Remington load. I would get a good reloading manual and find a reliable, accurate .222 Remington magnum load for that particular rifle, and stick with it. Save your brass, but you can still get new brass for it, just be prepared to do some searching. The .204 Ruger cartridge was derived from the .222 Rem. mag. case. Now that we know you have both .222 Remington and .222 magnum ammo, I have to wonder where the .222 Remington rifle is? Perhaps another Sako Vixen ??? Sorry to hear you are selling the property, it would be nice to be able to keep it.
I think that shooting a .222 in the Mag chamber you created a bore obstruction when the bullet lept out of the case and engaged the rifling. Thus, over pressure in the chamber, blowing out the neck and splitting the shoulder of the .222 case.
Thanks for sharing. Mistakes happen. It goes to show how easy this can happen. I'm supper cautious with my cases while reloading. I have a model 722 rem in 222 rem mag and I try to take this rifle to the range by itself or at least not with my 223 guns so I don't mix brass and don't have to separate.
No, you didn't damage the rifle. Your rifle is beautiful, by the way. A good lesson about inspecting ammunition for one's rifle. Especially since you weren't injured. My condolences regarding the tragic loss of your father and his home.
50 grain sx is a soft point bullet sx is for super explosive as they were for lower velocity cartridges to blow apart at slower speeds. hornady bullets
Your fortunate you didn't injure yourself. We all make mistakes Trey. Just glad you didn't injure yourself. You probably won't make that mistake again though !! That rifle is an absolute treasure. The barrel appears to be cut down because I'm not sure why anyone would want a 222Mag with a very short barrel. Do you have the history on this rifle?
case was to brittle now and why it split. after several firings cases get harder from heat cycles. they can be annealed also to make the neck softer also for neck resizing!
I seen a 204 over pressure it welded the case head to the bolt face broke the ejector firing pin and extractor had to put the bolt in a lathe and cut the case head from the bolt face
Thanks for showing Mayby you can help somone not make that same mistake This is how you learn you not dumb Just didn’t know and now you do Seems to us avid jandloaders that everyone should know this but how would you You just unfortunately got the stuff dropped on your lap.
The fired case looks nothing like a 222 mag. I would think its a different chambering, maybe 223? At the very least run a borescope through the chamber and make sure theres no obstructions.
@@treyveston7965 I have to think it was better this way than the other way around! Probably couldn't have closed the bolt though. Lucky you weren't shooting something like a 7 mag versus a 7x57
Beautiful rifle. Those old Sako's are works of art! Your dad had good taste in guns. Both the .222 Rem and .222 Rem mag. are great cartridges. In regards to the primer blow-out, I don't think you damaged your dad's gun. The bolts and receivers are built to handle high pressures and escaping gases. What happened in your incident was the firing pin struck the primer and forced the entire cartridge forward (because a .222 case is shorter than the magnum version), there was enough space to blow out the primer. When I saw the 4198 powder loading, I immediately thought that it was a .222 Remington load. I would get a good reloading manual and find a reliable, accurate .222 Remington magnum load for that particular rifle, and stick with it. Save your brass, but you can still get new brass for it, just be prepared to do some searching. The .204 Ruger cartridge was derived from the .222 Rem. mag. case. Now that we know you have both .222 Remington and .222 magnum ammo, I have to wonder where the .222 Remington rifle is? Perhaps another Sako Vixen ??? Sorry to hear you are selling the property, it would be nice to be able to keep it.
i thought the same thing. the good old mike walker load of 20.5 grains of imr 4198 was suppose to work with both 50 and 55 grain bullets.
prayers to u and yours for the loss of your father!
I think that shooting a .222 in the Mag chamber you created a bore obstruction when the bullet lept out of the case and engaged the rifling. Thus, over pressure in the chamber, blowing out the neck and splitting the shoulder of the .222 case.
Thanks for sharing. Mistakes happen. It goes to show how easy this can happen. I'm supper cautious with my cases while reloading. I have a model 722 rem in 222 rem mag and I try to take this rifle to the range by itself or at least not with my 223 guns so I don't mix brass and don't have to separate.
No, you didn't damage the rifle. Your rifle is beautiful, by the way. A good lesson about inspecting ammunition for one's rifle. Especially since you weren't injured. My condolences regarding the tragic loss of your father and his home.
I have been looking for a good .222 Remington bolt action
50 grain sx is a soft point bullet sx is for super explosive as they were for lower velocity cartridges to blow apart at slower speeds. hornady bullets
Insurance is a scam he more than likely paid on it his whole life and then at the end he didn’t have enough it’s just mind blowing sorry for your loss
Your fortunate you didn't injure yourself. We all make mistakes Trey. Just glad you didn't injure yourself. You probably won't make that mistake again though !!
That rifle is an absolute treasure. The barrel appears to be cut down because I'm not sure why anyone would want a 222Mag with a very short barrel. Do you have the history on this rifle?
case was to brittle now and why it split. after several firings cases get harder from heat cycles. they can be annealed also to make the neck softer also for neck resizing!
the rim wear is from the ejector on the rifle.
I seen a 204 over pressure it welded the case head to the bolt face broke the ejector firing pin and extractor had to put the bolt in a lathe and cut the case head from the bolt face
Thanks for showing
Mayby you can help somone not make that same mistake
This is how you learn you not dumb
Just didn’t know and now you do
Seems to us avid jandloaders that everyone should know this but how would you
You just unfortunately got the stuff dropped on your lap.
The fired case looks nothing like a 222 mag. I would think its a different chambering, maybe 223? At the very least run a borescope through the chamber and make sure theres no obstructions.
222 fired in 222 magnum.
$500K for 10 acres?!
should have checked bore for obstruction after rupture
So what is the rifle, 222 rem mag?
@@ChronicalsofAl yep. .222 Rem Magnum.
@@treyveston7965 I have to think it was better this way than the other way around! Probably couldn't have closed the bolt though. Lucky you weren't shooting something like a 7 mag versus a 7x57
Not a stockfactory
Can you shoot 223 in a 222 rem mag?
There would be excessive headspace with the 223 ammunition.
no
With a Mauser type extractor you could probably get away with it.
did you use 222mag load data in a 222 case?
he said it was his fathers reloads
No he fired a 222 in a 222 magnum chamber.