Thread: new rifle

What is your max range and what will you be "taking out"? Do you need fast follow ups?

Never had a 22-250, but like my 223.
No recoil, quiet, kills fallow deer and goats no problem (never tried long range on them).
Only problem is my son it more.

If it's purely for varmints, eg. goats and smaller, I'd go for a .204 Ruger or 223.
204 is an awesome round, turns varmint inside out. With less noise, barrel wear and is cheaper to reload than 22-250 with more than enough performance to take varmint at the same ranges as 22-250.

As others have said, 22-250s usually come with a slow twist that limits you to light weight bullets when reloading, but this may or may not matter for you.

223 may not best the best performer, but is a good all rounder. Good factory ammo can be had for cheap, is easy to reload and you will never struggle to get brass for it.
Generally comes in something around a 1:8 or 1:9 twist, which you can use heavier bullets with.

I would go for 204 Ruger if it was just for small pests, but 223 if there was a chance you would want to shoot goats/pigs/deer with it.

I have owned a couple of 22-250,s and one 223 and for what i use it for the 223 ticks all and more boxes than the 22-250

22 250 ticks more boxes, its the WSM of the 22 cals ! Will cover a greater range of animal targets than the 223. Heaps of the old deer meat hunters used to take out reds and waps. Neither a 223 or a 22 250 is a long range rifle imho. But out to 250 - 300 yrds the 22-250 is a good bet in 22 cal. Yes, a 243 or 2506 would be even better if you want to cover larger deer.

I had a nice 22-250 , 30yrs ago , sold it , I would say go 223 or if more range is needed , go a 243

I have the tikka varmint 22-250 and love it!
I shoot the 52 amax out to 300 with good success on magpies and other various varmints
I would dearly love to get the 223 1in 8 twist and ream it to 22-250 and shoot the 80 grain amax.
That would be a serious bif of kit!

I was keen on a mini howa .223 but I dont want a mag on it. Do you know if they have a internal mag you could get for them?

Originally Posted by Toby

I was keen on a mini howa .223 but I dont want a mag on it. Do you know if they have a internal mag you could get for them?

Yes

Originally Posted by Toby

I was keen on a mini howa .223 but I dont want a mag on it. Do you know if they have a internal mag you could get for them?

Pretty sure it is mag only, Robbie and I were fooling about with the mag to see if it was viable to make a nice job of trimming it to 5 and make it flush, quite doable but am leaving mine as a ten, being a 223, if I come across a deer, guess I'll have to empty the whole mag at it just to make sure.......

Worth noting if you get one, use a die grinder in the back of the action to help the mag seat up better, trim the mag release lever, it is too long and catches real easy to drop the mag, and put in a stronger lever spring as insurance against dropping the mag, cause it is going to happen if you don't!

Will bed real nice too, nice and flat, maori bedding should do it :araldite and wax, job done!

While the action is really short, there is just enough room to turn it into 22-250, 762x39 or a 6.8 if that took your fancy, but a 223 with 53gnTTSX or 60gn Partition should be fine if chasing bigger stuff than magpies. This one is gonna get fed Hornady 55gn spires, cause I f*!%n hate magpies!

Where abouts? I cant find them

Dunno. The one I had had both plastic ten shot mags and floor plate bottom metal

Was it the mini action? I thought these had just come out

I see howa also makes alpine rifle too

Oh no maybe not mini action.

well im now looking at a 204 thanks guys.