22-250 popularity and use

[Thebigbaby]

Sorry i misread your post. As a FNG you may not be aware that posting in the wrong forum takes up a lot of the mods time.

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• Glendon Mullins
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Isn’t this post in the wrong forum?

 

[Deere_Man]

I bought my 22-250 specifically for shooting deer and to get into reloading. I will load up some 65gr Game Kings and some 77TMK’s and see what’s up.

 

[Touchdown88]

My grandpa loaded the test rounds for Browning when they were in the process of commercializing the 22-250. I still have some of the loaded rounds he made that were not delivered to the company.

 

[TaperPin]

Many kids growing up in the rural west have had access to a 22-250 since old enough to graduate from a .22 to a centerfire. For many of us, before our first big game hunt, we’ve already been shooting the 22-250 four years or more. If there’s always one handy, it gets used constantly on small beady eyed varmints, big fat rock chucks, any of the predators, and multitudes of rocks of all sizes. In the summer it is THE rifle to throw in the truck when going out to explore the world for the day.

Even as a kid the slow as smell 223 didn’t do much for me with its rainbow trajectory, when the much flatter shooting 22-250 didn’t require as much thought to connect. Kids aren’t as influenced by influencers, they just know what works when they see it and what doesn’t.

I’ve always had a fixed 12x scope on a 22-250, and over all these years it still seems an ideal combination.

For friends or anyone in the family, they know there’s a loaner 22-250 ready to go with 50 rounds of ammo in my closet if they ever have someone along that needs a rifle for the day.

 

[Fireflyfishing]

Nothing wrong with a 22-250. It’s still viable. Tikka makes an 8 twist version that’s fantastic.

 

[TaperPin]

It’s also easy to forget that back before everyone had an AR, the slow twist 223 wasn’t as popular as the 22-250 as a bolt gun trainer/varmint/plinker.

 

[Wyoming300]

It’s also easy to forget that back before everyone had an AR, the slow twist 223 wasn’t as popular as the 22-250 as a bolt gun trainer/varmint/plinker.

Well said points you have.

When ever i see the survivalist people touting 10/22s, i always imagine they have not discovered 22 250. I would take that over anything, and 17hmr over any other rimfire.

 

[VernAK]

I've been shooting and loading 22-250 for over 60 years. I've won two regional bench matches with the 22-250. There are still three rifles of that caliber in my safe. I have used the 22-250 mostly for coyotes but have taken a few wolves with same but I prefer the 6mms for that purpose. The 22CM will probably take some of the 22-250s place but at my age, I'm not changing.

 

[Wyoming300]

I've been shooting and loading 22-250 for over 60 years. I've won two regional bench matches with the 22-250. There are still three rifles of that caliber in my safe. I have used the 22-250 mostly for coyotes but have taken a few wolves with same but I prefer the 6mms for that purpose. The 22CM will probably take some of the 22-250s place but at my age, I'm not changing.

I understand why you say 22 creedmore will gain more 22 250 shooters. However, for many of us, ease of olf guns and inexpensive common ammunition are why we have 22 250. 22cm averages 3x the price of 22 250 and is hard to find in wyoming.

 

[Jermh]

Funny timing on this thread, I was just telling my dad this morning that I was thinking about selling my 250 to fund a different rifle. The thing shoots and has killed a lot of coyotes but I just don’t seem to have the time to hunt them like I used to and it just sits. Fun gun though.