I've had a Model 340 in .222 since about 1959 and, although I only groundhog hunt with it occasionally, it's gonna stay with me til I stop hunting and then go to my son. I had a little Weaver B6 scope on it initially before going to a Lyman 10X All-American. It was my first varmint rifle and the first cartridge I reloaded for. Two of my sons shot this gun as their first centerfire when I started them out groundhog and target shooting. Butt ugly and doesn't have a crisp trigger but what a great shooter. The .222 cartridge is a great round and I much prefer it to the .223 that I have in the T/C Encore platform. Too bad the popularity of the .223 has taken the .222 off the radar for some shooters. Next to the .17 Fireball, the .222 is my favorite small centerfire round to shoot. I also had a .22 Hornet in the Model 340 and regrettably I traded it a number of years ago.