Thread: Ideal .22-250 ammo

dual load......its the best option as you are asking the two ends of the spectrum in preformance
yes a good deer load will kill rabbits BUT if your shot drifts off a bit and you stick it in the guts (yes I know that no one wants to hear it but it has to be said) the deer load will pencil through and rabbit will crawl away to die slowly...a varmit load will plurry near cut it in half.end of story/rabbit
in my humble .223 I have 50grn vmax/zmax loads for varmits and same everything else with a 50grn barnes TTSX projectile for bigger stuff,Ive used lots of different loads in rifle over the years but can happily just have these two....if I HAD to use only a single load for that rifle it would probably be something along the lines of hornadies great 55grn load,it opens a LITTLE on small stuff and holds together somewhat on bigger stuff.
if your deer are fallow and you intend to head neck shoot you will get away (indeed be better served ) with a softer or varmit load....but dont try and shoulder shoot for many reasons.

hope that helps