222mag Rem722

[pdh]

My father-in-law passed down this old beauty to me. The bore looks just as good as the outside!
Can't wait to get some brass....load'em up and hit the range

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[jsr76]

pdh, nice gun. I'm pretty young yet but I've heard those are very well built rifles. I believe they are the predecessor to the 700. I also understand the .222 Rem. Mag to be very, very similar in performance to the .223. Wish I had that one over the old 840 E.

[pdh]

Thanks jsr76....yes you are correct about it being the predecessor of the 700

I am pretty proud of this gun....being my father-in-law's...and he took excellent care of it. I last time I saw it was some 30 years ago when I first meet my wife. I am very excited that it still looks as good now as when it did back then............ah the rifle.....

[Art Eatman]

Is that a K12 on top?

Art

[pdh]

Art.....all I know is it is a Weaver 15x....K15?

[castnblast]

I have an old weaver on my 7 mm rem mag, and it is bright, has great eye relief, and very crisp...did I mention too...VERY consistant MOA movement?

[williamd]

I have a 722(A) in 222 with a Weaver 10x. Fantistic shooter. It goes with me most of the varmint outings while newer pieces have to SIT! STAY! in the safe. Only 'customization' is a trigger shoe. :rolleyes:

Love the old Weavers. I have a few in 2.5x and 3x that are my favortie hunting scopes. Favorite is a 3x with a post and horinzontal x-hair. Straight 6x on my 7MMM and 300WM ... and those are often too much. Sold a rifle two years ago ... took off a 3x Weaver and put a 4x Leupold I had picked up in a trade on it to sell! Yea, nuts. :D

But, I still have the long Redfield 3200 on one gun!

[Art Eatman]

I disremember wwhen Weaver first started making variables. All there scopes in the way-back-when were K models.

The details have become vague, but I think there was a fire at the El Paso plant. Business troubles; Mr. Weaver sold the company. For a while there were more problems, but they kept after it and started coming out once again with good-quality scopes.

It was somewhere around 1951 when I got my first K2.5...

I've always said that any of the old, steel-tube K4s is really all the scope that 99% of deer hunters ever need...

Art

[mrawesome22]

Wow that's a beautiful gun. I can't believe that scope still works. That thing looks like it's been through its paces LOL. I really love the stock on that gun.

[FirstFreedom]

That's a beeyoot. I reckon it'd hit sumpin' too.

[Toolman]

I have an early 60's 722 identical to yours & you'll be pleasantly surprised at they're accuracy. I'd wouldn't be afraid to try varmints out to 600 yds. Mine has the old small tube, recoil spring, J. Unertl 4x scope on it & it's still as clear as the day it was new.
Congrats!

[270Win]

Beautiful rifle, from every angle!

[hivel37]

Took my 722 in 222 to the range today after having it rebarreled. It shoots better than my eyes can see. Good rifles.

[Fat White Boy]

My hunting buddy shoots a 722 in .222Mag. He is death on ground squirrels with it...

[pesta2]

Back in the 60’s a salesman came to them mine (coal mine family owned here in WV). My Dad worked for his Dad and Uncle whom owned the mine. Yes a salesman could actually go around before 1968 selling rifles. He showed a .222to my Dad’s Uncle Adolph and asked if he wanted to buy one. He told me Dad to take a piece or board and place it on a hill near by. Dad did not say the distant or the size of the board, just said it was far away. Adolph told the guy if he could hit that board he would buy two. They guy took a shot and hit it, Adolph bought two. My Dad always wanted one after that because he could not believe the accuracy of the .222.

[pdh]

You guys are really getting me excited on getting her out to the range and to do some hog hunting !! I always heard they were good rifles.
I cleaned the lenses on the scope today. It is nice and bright. Art asked if it is a K12...It is a K10.

Getting some brass ordered....be ready to try her out soon.......