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guntotin_fool · October 25, 2008, 11:44 PM

While the conventional wisdom was that Varmint cartridges were bad deer cartridges, it was really a case of varmint bullets make bad big game bullets.

Loading a Nosler partition, TBBC, or CT Gold type bullet into a .22 250 makes a lot of sense for smaller deer, WHile maybe not the best choice for 200 or more pound dress weight deer, for the many deer in America where 125 dressed weight is a big animal, they are near perfect particularly if you compare a .22 250 to a .222 or .223, where the velocity with a heavier bullet might be harder to get.

WHile I personally would prefer to you use the parent cartridge for deer, (the 250 savage) the .22 250 is not a bad small deer round ONLY when loaded with bullets rated for big game, and not varmints.

October 25, 2008, 11:44 PM	#46
guntotin_fool Senior Member Join Date: November 18, 2004 Posts: 1,446	While the conventional wisdom was that Varmint cartridges were bad deer cartridges, it was really a case of varmint bullets make bad big game bullets. Loading a Nosler partition, TBBC, or CT Gold type bullet into a .22 250 makes a lot of sense for smaller deer, WHile maybe not the best choice for 200 or more pound dress weight deer, for the many deer in America where 125 dressed weight is a big animal, they are near perfect particularly if you compare a .22 250 to a .222 or .223, where the velocity with a heavier bullet might be harder to get. WHile I personally would prefer to you use the parent cartridge for deer, (the 250 savage) the .22 250 is not a bad small deer round ONLY when loaded with bullets rated for big game, and not varmints.