.222 Remington necked up to 25 Caliber.
I'm slowly but surely putting the pieces together to get this done.
I've got the donor rifle, a Model 700 Classic in .221 Fireball, that shoots very poorly now. Dies, brass and mould.
The bullet is an LBT that is .782 long and weighs about 95 grains. I had originally planned on using a 12 twist barrel but am now thinking I better go with a 10.
I also have to decide whether to keep it as a repeater or just get a single shot adaptor and be done with it. Some have opined that it is going to be difficult to get it to feed and eject because of the Fireball bolt. A .222/.223 magazine box, spring and follower are about $50.
I'm looking at a Krieger barrel in “light target” contour at 26” which should give me a rifle weight of about 10 pounds.
I plan on having a local gunsmith do this work and of course will talk to him about reamers and such before I buy anything but am figuring the cost of a finish chamber reamer, thoater, and go-no go gauges from PTG.
Any opinions or suggestions would be welcome.
Here is a picture of a dummy cartridge I made up next to a .257 Roberts for comparison.
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