Thread: .22high power Savage

Always been a cartridge that's been on my radar.always wanted one,just to be different. Does anyone on here own one??? How are you getting on sourcing the weird .228 diameter projectiles???

Well I don't have any good answers for you but I do happen to have a box with x91 Hdy70gn .227 Spire Point which I understood where the dia for 22 Savage HighPower, not 228... but correct me if I'm wrong.

I tried to swap them on here for something of more use but no takers lol

EDIT: Thanks to Wikipedia " It is based upon the .25-35 Winchester cartridge necked down to accept a .227 in/.228 in diameter bullet. Its original loading was a 70 grain soft point bullet with a velocity of about 2790 feet per second."

Lmfao....that's actually why I'm asking as I have found myself in possession of a box too. Pretty sure will end up using through the.223 with a below maximum charge without issues,but would be borderline criminal to do so if someone has a savage to use them as intended.

You could build one on a 224 barrel , and then use normal 224 projectiles

My ones are the semi point speer70 grn jobbies.given to me by forum good fellow so one way of the other they going to get used.

Originally Posted by Fee Knicks

You could build one on a 224 barrel , and then use normal 224 projectiles

Oh don't worry,that thought has been well explored.

Those Hornadys wont stabilise in a .22 Hipower anyway. They are too long.


You can shoot normal size .224 bullets in a .22 Hipower, they just have to be short enough to stabilise. John Barnsness wrote an article on the .22 Hipower if you can find it. Sellier and Bellot and Norma still load factory for it.


I just make my .223 into a .22 Savage Hipower by loading 70 grain Speers to 2800 fps. I do this because I am too cheap to buy a real one, and too lazy to find one.

Yip I hear you on that. It's what I was intending to do...load 223 to duplicate it,I just didn't realise I had the fatter projectiles till had issues seating them.

I built a .219 Donaldson Wasp on a HandR single shot rifle. Originally a .22 Hornet but rechambered , fitted a 30-30 extractor and good to go.

Original plan was to build a 22 High Power but the 227 thing was a bit hard to work around back then.

Savage 99’s in .22 Savage Hipower are not uncommon over here. Were popular in the 40/50s before the .222 was common. Old man had one. I can’t like the model 99. Too Agricultural for me.
Outside of the 99 you see them in the savage and cz combination guns.
Can make cases from .30/30 brass.


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I never warmed to the Savage 99 either.

WDM Bell had a .22 Hi-power chambered in a little Rigby Mauser, and used to shoot red deer with it in Scotland.

Geeze its not often you hear the 99 called "agricultural". On the contrary, they seem to get more bouquets if not reverence than brick bats. Depends what your fancy is I guess...

Yes a savage 99 is on my radar, but how many firearms can one own and still enjoy using them all.

Just one more ...

Originally Posted by SmokeyJason

Yes a savage 99 is on my radar, but how many firearms can one own and still enjoy using them all.

Heaps! Lol