22-250 rifle

[taylorce1]

Originally Posted by Scorch

Not razzing you, just that I feel the 22-250 is the best varmint caliber anyone could want.

I'm the opposite my varmint guns are .22 Mag, .204 X2, .223 X4, 6X45, 6X47, .243, 6mm CM X2, and .300 BLK X2. I know most are going .300 BLK? I like it for night work with a suppressor on hen house raiders.

I'm not against the .22-250 just never used one. I just loaded 55-70 grain varmint bullets in my .243. Kind of a faux .22-250 after that, and it vaporized prairie dogs with aplomb.

[Skans]

I had a Remington 700 22-250. The cartridges were expensive and I'd reload for it. But, the problem is resizing the case is quite difficult because it is necked-down so much. I could never seem to get them sized-reshaped correctly. They were a bitch to try and chamber - required a pretty good smack from the palm of my hand on the bolt handle.

[tangolima]

Resizing after each firing? It shouldn't be difficult, should it? Conversion from .308 or .30-06 is different story.

Feeding shouldn't be a problem either, considering the tapering. Most likely it is because the brass isn't sized down enough. It doesn't quite fit the chamber.

-TL

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[44 AMP]

But, the problem is resizing the case is quite difficult because it is necked-down so much. I could never seem to get them sized-reshaped correctly. They were a bitch to try and chamber - required a pretty good smack from the palm of my hand on the bolt handle.

If you have to smack the bolt handle to get your reloads to chamber, something is WRONG!

IT has nothing to do with the taper design or how much a case necks down.

Either your loading process is incorrect (or something is out of adjustment) or your rifle or sizer is out of spec. Also possible is your rifle chamber is on minimum end of spec range and sizer die on the max end.

I've had a couple .22-250s, load for them exactly the same way I load for the other dozen plus bottle neck rifle rounds I reload. Dies are set exactly the same way. Reloads feed butter smooth, no extra force needed.

If your equipment is in proper spec, your brass prep is done right, then there's something you're not doing right when it comes to sizing or seating.

It may just be a simple adjustment not quite set right, but I can't do more than generalize without more information.

One thing I can say with certainty, is that your difficulties chambering reloaded .22-250 is not due to anything in the case design, it is something caused by your rifle and your reloads.

[Picher]

I started using .22-250 before I was married, back in 1970+/-. I was taken by it when hunting woodchucks, then and shot a couple of whitetails with it. It never failed to impress me!!! One shot, around 1965 or so, perhaps a bit scary, but I was younger back then when, on a lark, I called some flying crows toward the woods road I was on. One coasted across my view, straight vertical above me, at least a couple of hundred feet high. It was a safe direction, downriver, so I took the shot, just before it disappeared above the pine trees surrounding the road.

I stood there in foot-deep snow, thinking that I probably shouldn't have shot in the air, but the shot had surely made it safely to a large wooded area near the fields just across the road a bit.

Suddenly, I heard twigs snapping and things happening in the pine trees, about a hundred yards away. I quickly moved to a clearing and looked, as some small branches fell out of the higher pine branches, at a tree across field, about 100 or so yards away.

I made my way through about a foot of snow as I trudged toward the tree at the edge of the field, but couldn't see anything until getting to small branches laying on the snow. You can't imagine how shocked I was to find a freshly-killed crow without a head!!!

I almost wondered how that happened. Oh yeah, I'll bet someone shot it with a .22-250. He only regretted that he didn't have any witnesses.

[tangolima]

Yeah shooting in air is not a good idea. Sounds like the bullet was stopped by the tree.

I now lean more towards .243 win. It sounds more utility than .22-250, except that the bullets cost more than double. I still have time to dither while saving up for it and waiting for a discount code.

-TL

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[Scorch]

He only regretted that he didn't have any witnesses

Yeah, I have a couple of stories that I can't brag about because there were no witnesses!

[44 AMP]

I now lean more towards .243 win. It sounds more utility than .22-250, except that the bullets cost more than double.

The .22-250 is legal for deer in some states. In some states it is not. Even if legal in your state, I, personally, would choose a larger caliber rifle for deer and anything larger than varmints.

Yes, the .243 costs more. It's BIGGER. There is more material in every bullet, cases are larger, more powder is burned. These factors alone increase the cost of the rounds, separate from other market factors.

Yeah, I have a couple of stories that I can't brag about because there were no witnesses!

Ya got it backwards! Stories with no witnesses are the only ones you can brag about....if there's a witness, its not brag, its just simple recounting of the truth!

[bamaranger]

I made my best shot(s) with the aforementioned 77V in 22-250. Seems like I've posted this before, but it seems worth retelling.

I was sniping crows when one lit in a tree at a on the longest part of the hay field. Lined up the shot, held on the top edge of the crow and shot, lost it in recoil, but saw the crow light on a different limb nearby.

Figured I'd not allowed for a slight wind and set up again. Used same elevation, but held off a wee bit for wind and squeezed off another one, and the crow dropped from the tree. I was pretty tickled with the shot. I paced it at , 286 long strides. Quite surprised when I got to the spot, to locate two dead crows,..... I'd hit the first one as well.