Thread: 22 250 Face lift

A while back Beeman's son bought a new carbon fibre stock for his 300 WSM and when he headed of to Aussie to work he gave me the wooden stock. Just the other day I decided to see if it would fit my Rem SPS 22 250. I pulled the old stock off which was the factory plastic one and weighted the two, the wooden stock about 3 oz heavier.
The wood stock fitted perfect with no alterations needed, hopefully it would be a good shooter. With the plastic stock I have shot a 14 mm group but generally it's at about an inch for three shots.
Once it was all set up it weighted in at 8 ld 12 oz so not to bad as it's not a bush gun more an open country rifle.



I was hoping it would shoot a bit better than the old plastic stock as this wood one is now a free floating one and doesn't have those little blocks at the the tip of the forearm that apply upward pressure.



Yesterday I took a few rifles out to shoot some different loads, in the 22 250 i had my normal handload of 55 gr Noslar BT with 36 grs of AR 2208 for about 3600 fps and some Belmont 55 gr factory loads which look like they run the Hornady bullet in Graf brass.



After about 7 rounds I had it shooting a little high at 100 yds so then tried a couple of groups of three shots with both rounds. I was very pleasantly surprised as I was only shooting over the hood of my truck on my shooting rest.
The 55 gr Noslar BT's went into 17 mm and the Factory Belmont 55's went into 26 mm both at close to the right height for a 200 yd zero.
Next time I try it out I will set up better in a prone position and see if I can improve on that.



When firing the Belmont factory ammo my second shot had quite a heavy bolt lift and the primers are a little flattened which isn't a reliable way to check for pressure but it was a surprise being factory stuff. The other thing that happens is when the Graf brass is resized the neck won't hold a bullet you can pull it out, all other types of brass I don't have a problem with it.....any ideas why this is the case???



At the moment I am very pleased with the 22 250's face lift.