{"id":427,"date":"2018-03-28T12:26:00","date_gmt":"2018-03-28T12:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/2018\/03\/28\/saami-approves-224-valkyrie-specs\/"},"modified":"2019-08-16T18:28:49","modified_gmt":"2019-08-16T18:28:49","slug":"saami-approves-224-valkyrie-specs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/?p=427","title":{"rendered":"SAAMI Approves .224 Valkyrie Specs"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:7500,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.saami.org&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:7501,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.saami.org\\\/PDF\\\/224-Valkyrie-Introduction.pdf&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>\nVista Outdoor announced yesterday that their Federal Premium developed .224 Valkyrie cartridge specifications had been approved by the Sporting Arms and Ammunition Manufacturer&#8217;s Institute aka SAAMI. Standardization of both the cartridge and chamber specifications certainly will help push greater adoption of this new cartridge.<\/p>\n<p>From Vista Outdoor&#8217;s release:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"tr_bq\">\n<div align=\"center\" class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<b><span style=\"font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;\">Sporting Arms and Ammunition Manufacturers&#8217; Institute Publishes Approved 224 Valkyrie Cartridge Specifications<\/span><\/b><\/div>\n<div align=\"center\" class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\">\n<b><span style=\"font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif;\">ANOKA, Minnesota \u2013 March 27, 2018 \u2013<\/span><\/b><span style=\"font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif;\"><br \/>\n The Sporting Arms and Ammunition Manufacturers&#8217; Institute (SAAMI) voted<br \/>\n to approve the Federal Premium<br \/>\n 224 Valkyrie as an official new cartridge during their committee<br \/>\nmeeting at the 2018 SHOT Show in Las Vegas, Nevada this past January.<br \/>\n224 Valkyrie\u2019s SAAMI standards documents are now published and available<br \/>\n to the industry as a whole, as well as to the public.<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\">\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\">\n<span style=\"font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif;\">\u201cIt\u2019s<br \/>\n thrilling to have brought the world\u2019s best MSR 15 cartridge to market.<br \/>\nWe\u2019re proud and excited about our new cartridge, and we deeply<br \/>\nappreciate SAAMI\u2019s support with this launch,\u201d said<br \/>\n Federal Premium Ammunition President Jason Vanderbrink. \u201cSAAMI\u2019s<br \/>\napproval of the cartridge was a crucial step in<span style=\"color: #1f497d;\"><br \/>\n<\/span>legitimizing it within the industry. Their work creates standards<br \/>\n for the cartridge, increasing safety, interchangeability, reliability<br \/>\nand quality for the dozens of firearm manufacturers currently building<br \/>\nrifles in our 224 Valkyrie.\u201d<span style=\"color: #1f497d;\"><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\">\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\">\n<span style=\"font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif;\">SAAMI<br \/>\n allows free access to technical data and drawings for the cartridge and<br \/>\n chamber designs, which are posted in the Information and Specifications<br \/>\n section of the organization\u2019s website. All<br \/>\n cartridge and chamber drawing documents are contained within the<br \/>\nANSI\/SAAMI Standards and can be found on<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.saami.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.saami.org<\/a>. The New SAAMI Cartridge Cartridge\/Chamber Designs and Revisions for 224 Valkyrie can be viewed here:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.saami.org\/PDF\/224-Valkyrie-Introduction.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.saami.org\/PDF\/224-Valkyrie-Introduction.pdf<\/a>.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\">\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\">\n<span style=\"font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif;\">SAAMI<br \/>\n was founded in 1926 at the request of the federal government and tasked<br \/>\n with creating and publishing industry standards for safety,<br \/>\ninterchangeability, reliability and quality, as well<br \/>\n as coordinating technical data. SAAMI\u2019s Technical Committee, which<br \/>\nconsists of firearm and ammunition industry experts, reviewed the 224<br \/>\nValkyrie submission over a period of about six months. The official<br \/>\ncartridge name, maximum cartridge and minimum chamber<br \/>\n dimensions, pressure limits, test equipment, and other characteristics<br \/>\nare all considered and scrutinized during the process.&nbsp;<br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\">\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\">\n<span style=\"font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif;\">Federal<br \/>\n Premium\u2019s 224 Valkyrie is based on a 6.8 SPC case necked down to 22<br \/>\ncaliber. It offers dramatically improved trajectories over all other MSR<br \/>\n 15 cartridges, including the 22 Nosler, 223<br \/>\n Rem. and 6.5 Grendel\u2014with roughly half the recoil of larger cartridges<br \/>\noffering comparable ballistics, such as the 6.5 Creedmoor. Shooters can<br \/>\nexpect best-in-class ballistics, supersonic flight past 1,300 yards and<br \/>\nextreme long-range accuracy from this exciting<br \/>\n new cartridge. <\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\">\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\">\n<span style=\"font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif;\">The<br \/>\n 224 Valkyrie is initially available in four loads: 90-grain Gold Medal<br \/>\nSierra MatchKing, 60-grain Nosler Ballistic Tip Varmint, 90-grain Fusion<br \/>\n MSR and 75-grain American Eagle TMJ. These<br \/>\n proven Federal Premium offerings provide options for long-range<br \/>\ncompetitors, target shooters and hunters pursuing game from varmints up<br \/>\nto deer-sized animals.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vista Outdoor announced yesterday that their Federal Premium developed .224 Valkyrie cartridge specifications had been approved by the Sporting&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":1,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1068,413,1069,1070,122],"class_list":["post-427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-224-valkyrie-cartridge","tag-federal-ammunition","tag-saami","tag-standardization","tag-vista-outdoor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=427"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11399,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427\/revisions\/11399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}