I like using IMR 3031 with a 50grn Nosler CT Silver tip.

23.5grns is listed as the max (compressed load) with this and it gives me very good sub 1" groups. @ 100yrds


To be honest that 222 is a great little round. I've tried 40grn coated vmax, 50 grn Sierra blitz and 55 grn Sierra blitzkings. They've all shot great, I really haven,t had a bullet or load that didnt group out of the gun.

Gun is nothing special, older 700 BDL I bedded and floated and took the trigger down to about 2lbs. It does good with Rem factory stuff also, Ive shot deer, foxes, crows and have always been happy with outcome from the round.

The thing I found that helped me the most is that I don't fully resize the casing Ineck sizeabout half way down the neck on the reloads and pretty much everything(I've tried)shoots good < 1" out of it at max powder loads.