New .22 Nosler cartridge

**hotrodder636** · 01-16-17, 12:22

Surfing to the edge of the web today and I found this:

https://www.americanrifleman.org/art...me-22-nosler/#

Thoughts?

**markm** · 01-16-17, 13:39

A little too niche in my opinion. The whole non standard mag thing is an immediate red flag. A 55 gr bullet dumps velocity too quickly to love 3350 fps. Shit... I've chronoed XM193 that shot that fast out of a 20 inch. And the 77 gr velocity is achievable with BH mk262 out of a 20 inch barrel.

It strikes me that you're getting a few headaches in trade for shortening the barrel only 2 inches.

**opngrnd** · 01-16-17, 22:27

That gains you what? A couple hundred yards?

**Coal Dragger** · 01-17-17, 14:04

Originally Posted by markm

A little too niche in my opinion. The whole non standard mag thing is an immediate red flag. A 55 gr bullet dumps velocity too quickly to love 3350 fps. Shit... I've chronoed XM193 that shot that fast out of a 20 inch. And the 77 gr velocity is achievable with BH mk262 out of a 20 inch barrel.

It strikes me that you're getting a few headaches in trade for shortening the barrel only 2 inches.

I don't know man, uses already available 6.8SPC magazines and those velocities are higher than any averages I've seen for XM193 or MK262. The 77gr load in particular is pretty interesting, I agree that the 55gr pill is of limited value for target shooting. Would make for a nice prairie dog evaporator though.

**hotrodder636** · 01-17-17, 14:38

I wonder how well this round will end up doing shooting 600-1000 yards compared to the 223/5.56. That is my biggest curiosity about this round.

Interesting they came out swinging with uppers offered at Midway already, dies, brass, etc.

**Coal Dragger** · 01-17-17, 14:51

The Nosler site has some drop charts out to 800 yards. The 77gr load is pretty impressive past 300 yards.

**markm** · 01-17-17, 19:27

I'm not hating on the round at all. But we've not had any problems with our target (not 5.56 pressure) 77 gr load out to 1000 yards. I mean... there's certainly a niche that it will be great in, but I don't see it getting very wide spread.

**jaholder** · 01-17-17, 21:28

Originally Posted by markm

A little too niche in my opinion. The whole non standard mag thing is an immediate red flag. A 55 gr bullet dumps velocity too quickly to love 3350 fps. Shit... I've chronoed XM193 that shot that fast out of a 20 inch. And the 77 gr velocity is achievable with BH mk262 out of a 20 inch barrel.

It strikes me that you're getting a few headaches in trade for shortening the barrel only 2 inches.

They're quoting 2950 fps out of an 18 inch barrel. No Mk262 round's gonna do that in a 20" and never in an 18.