Well you did choose a great caliber, its a great gun out to
300 yds with standard twists an light bullets. Fantastic coyote gun. However to really see the true benifits of the .224 there are now bullets avalible for them ( if you have the right twist to shoot them) that can make the 243 guys and the 6.5 boys really shake their heads. Starting at 75 grs on up to 95grs these new bullets have startling high ballistic coefficients. Imagine BC over .500' that with modern powders can be started way north of 3K.........
Tikka offers the American market a factory T3 with an 1/8
Twist that will stabilize up to 95gr bullets in mine! It shoots 75gr ELDs into nickel sized groups at 200 yds. Ditto on the newest Nosler 85gr RDF bullets. If you think a 22/250 was hell on wheels: with standard .250/300 BC bullets; then try launching bullets, with a BC between .450/.550 and that is a" whole different ballgame"! Check out this chart of the .224 with a 95gr bullets at 3085............ Amazing stuff.
View attachment 40193 Is that half the drop at 1000yds than the .308!