Thread: 22-250 loads

I like the sound of those 70 grain Speers, my 22-250 is 1/8 or 1/7.5 not sure. What speeds do you think you will get with them and with what powder ?

Well after taking in the great suggestions & looking online I came up with these thought the partitions could be worth a go , bullet construction seems pretty good someone mentioned a short bullet mite stabilise better .
Sample pac,s

22cal .224 60gr Nosler Spitzer Partition 16316
1

22cal .224 55gr Sierra Spitzer Boat Tail Gameking 1365
1

22cal .224 55gr Barnes Tipped Triple Shock (TTSX) Boattail 22453|30187
1

you can never go wrong with a partition.....

@Boaraxa, give me a week or 10 days and I shall have my house sorted, than bring it to me and we reload I. The morning and shoot it in the afternoon. I have 220& if needed and I know you have W760 if you wish use it...

berg....big stag walked 20mtrs then lay down to die sounds like pretty plurry good preformance to me...seem many a deer hit by a darn sight more than 55grns go further than that...lol

Originally Posted by nor-west

I like the sound of those 70 grain Speers, my 22-250 is 1/8 or 1/7.5 not sure. What speeds do you think you will get with them and with what powder ?

the adi guide has them starting at about 3000 fps for the powder's listed,have a look at the 68/69 gr match stuff as well

Originally Posted by Boaraxa

Well after taking in the great suggestions & looking online I came up with these thought the partitions could be worth a go , bullet construction seems pretty good someone mentioned a short bullet mite stabilise better .
Sample pac,s

22cal .224 60gr Nosler Spitzer Partition 16316
1

22cal .224 55gr Sierra Spitzer Boat Tail Gameking 1365
1

22cal .224 55gr Barnes Tipped Triple Shock (TTSX) Boattail 22453|30187
1

I tried Barnes 55gr TTSX in mine and they were awful as won’t stabilise. Yet they’re great in my 1-8” .223. If you can get them to shoot in your 22-250 I’d be keen to know what powder you use.

Nosler BT 55gr and Horny V-Max 40 & 53gr are all incredibly accurate in my 1-14” 22-250. Have shot one red deer with neck shot at around 200m with 40gr and decided will never use it for such a large animal again.

Dead is dead, but I’ve now committed the 22-250 to target shooting and long range bunnies, cos feel the small projectiles aren’t ethical on deer, as conditions are seldom as good as they were the day I shot it. Each to their own though.

55gr BT, 60gr Partition and 69gr SMK are my favourites in my .223 1-8”

Let us know how you get on


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Use the 55 gr SP Hornady. The bulk lot with the cannelure. Book max of 36.5 of 2208 will do the job from up close to further out. If you want to use the 60 gr partition, then try 42 gr of 2209. You'll need a drop tube to get it in. Gives around 3640 in my rifle. Works well, but expensive.

@Boaraxa just came across this old thread. What conclusions did you come to? I have just recently acquired a 22.250 Savage Model 16 and some dies to go with it. My son does reloading so will be doing that for me but just not sure what to look at as I'm new to hunting. Thanks

What are you planning on shooting?

hi there when i was doing rabbits and goats full time with my sako 22-250 i was running nosler shots 50gn behind 34.4gns bm2 3665fps win case. At 93% hit rate over 8.5 thousand rabbits from 50yds out to 550yds and goats out to 400yds, it was the cheapest to reload this ammo then buying 17 ammo at the time .

That's a lot of rabbits Definitely jealous

Originally Posted by charliehorse

That's a lot of rabbits Definitely jealous

yep it was a shit load of fun but one day shooting and the next three days reloading for the next shoot up i loved it

Mainly goats and if the chance the odd deer hopefully

I'm unqualified to comment but the 70g speer and 60g Hornady go good in my gun with AR2206h. That's 1:9. Still early days for me with this calibre but they should whack em down good enough I'd like to think....