Comments on: New Hot-Rod .224 Valkyrie Cartridge from Federal

By: Fuzzbean

Fuzzbean — Wed, 30 Mar 2022 16:44:10 +0000

Agree with Harold, many very strange comments comparing to .22/250, .22 WSSM etc. that don’t fit in an AR-15. How obvious is it,that is the reason/purpose of this cartridge?

By: Kevin

Kevin — Sun, 24 Jun 2018 02:54:05 +0000

Good accuracy so far w .224 V. Shot a 197-9x at 600 using fed gold medal smk 90 box ammo, very good score for me. White Oak 24″ 1:6.5 Krieger bbl on a space gun w NXS 5.5-22×56 and Geissele long mount. Shot all sub 0.5MOA with box ammo getting my zeros. Should be able to better that loading my own. Will report back with load testing when I get the Redding dies. Certainly no disadvantages to shooting 223.

By: Terry

Terry — Tue, 13 Mar 2018 19:32:23 +0000

So what would make the barrel life short? 2700fps isnt fast. Would it be because of the bore diameter? All things being equal the 308 lasts 5k to 6k rounds at those speeds correct? Ive shot 22-250s my whole life and the 22Val kicks its butt! Range, energy spent on target and way cheaper to shoot if you dont reload.

By: Terry Paul

Terry Paul — Tue, 27 Feb 2018 13:08:43 +0000

Ken Howell had all the bases covered with his 22 Howell, which by the way out performs the Valkyrie by a long shot. Kudos Mr Howell !

By: Harold

Harold — Fri, 23 Feb 2018 16:05:45 +0000

A lot of you guys keep comparing the 224 Valkyrie to other cartridges that WILL NOT FIT THE AR 15 PLATFORM, stop comparing apples to oranges!

By: Mike

Mike — Tue, 28 Nov 2017 17:12:45 +0000

Richard says:

November 27, 2017 at 1:30 pm

Isn’t the Dasher a 6mm that holds about 34 grains of powder?

Mike says..

Yes, but it has a rim diameter equal to 308 Winchester and that makes the round a little on the short side.

Having such a round in this in between size would be a more perfect balance between length and diameter… I think anyway.

By: Joel

Joel — Tue, 28 Nov 2017 00:09:51 +0000

Can’t wait to see what some bolt guns in this new caliber will do.

By: Richard

Richard — Mon, 27 Nov 2017 19:30:28 +0000

Isn’t the Dasher a 6mm that holds about 34 grains of powder?

By: Mike

Mike — Mon, 27 Nov 2017 19:09:45 +0000

I can also see this 224 Val being stretched to 6mm and would perform about identical to the 6BR.

Holding about 30 grains of powder, this would not be as quick as the 6 Creed (which runs too hot in my opinion) but would have much much better barrel life and with reasonable velocity.

Now we need this same round in 6 mm but longer so it holds about 34 grains of powder. That would make for a sweet 6 MM.

By: Mike

Mike — Mon, 27 Nov 2017 19:04:04 +0000

This round is looong overdue.

It fits squarely into my rule of thumb for long range case design where the powder charge should be about 1/3 of the maximum available bullet weight.

FTR Shooters have envisioned such a round for 20 years here is Canada. We’ve been running 223 Rem. rifles throated for 80 Grain SMKs and Bergers set to about 2.5-2.6 inches long to maximize case capacity for many years. This round slightly out performs our hot rodded 223 Rem loads but without the need for creative hand loads and custom throats.

Good luck finding a production rifle that will mag feed such a long 223 load. The Ruger Precision Rifle is one of the few… although the throat allows for rounds up to about 2.5 OAL.

Comments above noting that other rounds can balistically outperform this are not wrong, but this round will find favor wherever local shooting laws limit the caliber for the hunt, like some states do for varmints.

It will also have very acceptable barrel life.