Ackley said that the 222 Mag cartridge is a superior design to the 223. The rifle performs well for hunting but I never got the kinds of groups I got with my 222. The only problem with the L461, at least mine, as already stated here is that the magazine limits the length of the loaded cartridge and in my rifle the freebore is too long for my liking. Exit wound about the size of a golf ball and instant kills. Using a Sierra 50 grain Spitzer Blitz bullet I killed 11 coyotes and a gray fox with it in 2 days of calling. Several years ago I purchased a used L461 in 222 Mag and took it coyote hunting. However, the conventional spitzer bullets up to 60 grains work just fine, and a Ballistic Tip of 50 grains or less will fit. The only drawback is that the Sako magazine is tight for it and long bullets, like some of the plastic tipped spitzers, sometimes have to be seated deep enough that part of their ogives are below the mouth of the case. Loading for the round is straight forward and it uses the same powders, primers, and bullets as its smaller cousins. Rifles chambered for it may not be a favorite of Joe Sixpack since ammunition is somewhat scarce and tends to be expensive.īut empty brass is (or was before the component shortage) readily available (or can be reverse-formed from its lineal descendant, the. I think of Sakos chambered for the round as highly desirable and own three - two L461's and an L46 (often stamped "L469"). 222 Magnum will bring a bit of a premium over a. 222 Magnum was also one of the earliest "boutique" cartridges favored by benchresters in the 50's and 60's they seemed to like its longer neck. 223 is factory loaded to higher pressures in order to equal the. But (without going into the details of why) the. 222 Magnum, with a bit more case capacity, will actually drive the same bullet a tad faster when loaded to the same pressure as the. Sako turned out quite a few of them, so they are not rare but are somewhat scarcer than the regular. 222 Magnum was actually pretty popular until the.
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