22 PPC
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For my second 22 PPC, I had a muzzle brake installed, a Boyde stock installed and glass bedded. I didn’t have to do anything else, it’s a shooter.
I shot some of the 22 PPC targets above with four different loads, I’ll use most of them. I might adjust the seating depth or the load just a little.
I don’t shoot HOT loads so I’ll not load them much hotter. But sometime just a little adjustment will make a difference in accuracy. The seating depth will be controlled by the factory chamber. Surprisingly enough both of these Ruger Target models have short leades. Unlike most factory chambers with overly long leade in them to allow for higher pressures.
Many of my rifles have such long leade the bullets never come close to the rifling when seated out until the bullet nearly falls out of the case. As a varmint shooter I want as much accuracy without having the bullet “jammed” in the rifling. Yes the rifle would probably shoot just a little better accuracy with a “jammed” bullet. BUT, when on a prairie dog town shooting 300 rounds plus a day I don’t want a bullet jammed in the rifling.
I leave my bolt open, for SAFETY, all the time. I don’t trust safeties; the rifle will not fire if the bolt is open. When shooting a group of prairie dogs if I close the bolt and the dogs go down, now I have a round in the chamber, bullet JAMMED. If I try to extract the round, the bullet stays in the rifling and I throw powder all over the place.
Now I have to get out a cleaning rod to tap the bullet out, clean powder out of my action, loosing trigger time. I usually seat my bullets to what my reloading manual tell me, or 20 thousands off of the rifling, or a few thousands less than the magazine length. It doesn’t make that much difference in the type of shooting I do. I’m not striving for the smallest of “bug holes”. Just MOPD (Minuet of Prairie Dog).
Ruger got in a little trouble with Dr Louis Palmisano and Ferris Pindell (gunsmith). The designers of the cartridge (PPC) “Palmisano Pindell Cartridge”. In the mid to late 90’s when they came out with the rifles and didn’t ask the designers. I don’t know the whole story but Ruger stopped making the PPC (22 PPC and 6 PPC) and were the only American company to make a factory rifle. No one in the USA made or makes ammo. Sako, Lapua, and Norma were the only ammo manufactures. Only a few European riles were factory produced. Both calibers took over the bench rest world, and today still hold their own. Cases can be purchased from the above at a hefty price. I did purchase some cases from a US company a couple years back, SSA (Silver State Armory), I don’t know if they still make them or not; I bought 3,000 when I had the chance. But even they only made 6mm PPC. I still have 6 or 7 hundred left, maybe more.
The PPC (22 PPC and 6 PPC) case is a completely different bolt design. It falls between the .378 of the .223 Rem parent and the .473 of the .308 parent case at .441. Ruger had a good thing going for them. Their bolt used the control-roll-feed method of feeding a round, easily converted to .441. Many thousands of custom rifles have been produced with great results in every action you can think of.
The one big thing I like about the PPC (22 PPC and 6 PPC) is the fact they take a “small rifle primer”. The bench shooter will tell you the small rifle primer with the small flash hole will make for much better accuracy. Their records are hard to argue with.
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