Stag 10 rebarrel to 22-250
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Thats a good point, 243 may be a better option.
DiabeticKripple
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Get some 22-250 snap caps and see if they can be held by the mag. Then try feeding them into your 308
I’m giving some serious thought to 45 raptor. Wouldn’t be a high volume chambering for me, barely shot my 45-70 before I sold it. So I’d only need brass, 460 dies and a barrel. I see buffalo bore is even offering a variety of 45 raptor ammo. Very tempting, would sure be nice to have it around in grizz country.
You may have problems with 22-250 and gas pressures, I'm not familiar with 22-250 powder burn rates but since 243 is a good performer in an AR-10 platform and it's large enough to hunt big game while still being a good varmint/predator round I would definitely say you'll have a lot less chance of having problems with it than with 22-250 even if you can find someone to build you a barrel.
It would be interesting to see if it would work but you may also end up spending a bunch of money on a barrel to find out it doesn't work in the rifle.
If you're not a handloader I would definitely think you'll have a lot more trouble with 22-250 than 243.
Good luck
It would be interesting to see if it would work but you may also end up spending a bunch of money on a barrel to find out it doesn't work in the rifle.
If you're not a handloader I would definitely think you'll have a lot more trouble with 22-250 than 243.
Good luck
This is basically the only 22-250 specific magazine available. But good luck getting one and good luck with the price.
https://www.apfarmory.com/22-250-magazine/
https://www.apfarmory.com/22-250-magazine/
This is basically the only 22-250 specific magazine available. But good luck getting one and good luck with the price.
https://www.apfarmory.com/22-250-magazine/
Why would it need a 22-250 specific magazine? It's a 308 based cartridge, it should work in a standard AR-10 style magazine. My biggest concern on a project like this would be the cost of the barrel, you're looking at around $500 minimum to have someone make a barrel and then you don't even know if the cartridge will cycle the action (assuming it will feed from a standard magazine).
Honestly, I would just skip this experiment, if the OP wants to shoot coyotes with a 22-250 just use a nice bolt action, if you want to shoot them with a semi then 223 all the way through 6.5CM and 308 will do the job easily out past 300 yards. I know it's nice to have something unique but some stuff just ends up being more trouble and money than it's worth. The rifle functions great on 243, if I was going to change calibers that's the one I would go with.
Semi auto actions are designed to work around very specific gas pressures and changing to a radically different cartridge or bullet weight can take a great rifle and turn it into a jam-o-matic or a single shot. But on the other hand, you never know till you try it so OP if money is not a concern and you're willing to take the risk that you spend a bunch of money and time and have it end up not work then go for it and be sure to start a build thread and take lots of pictures to share.
Agreed you don't "need" a 22-250 specific magazine.
That being said, the 22-250 is more of an intermediate sized cartridge. It's somewhere in between what would fit in an ar15 and an ar10. It is much shorter than the rest of the 308 cartridge based calibers and has more taper than the rest of them.
Anything I've read on the subject (yes, no first hand experience) suggests that the 22-250 won't feed more than 4-5 rounds from a standard SR25 pattern magazine trouble free.
Now that shouldn't be an issue in Canada because we're typically limited to 5 rounds anyways. The 10 round pistol mags could be problematic when loaded full but if it were me I couldn't see myself wanting to blast away my 22-250 ammo by the pistol mag full at a time anyways.
So yes, I'm sure the expensive 22-250 specific mag isn't really a "need" to be able to take a shot or two at a coyote.
As far as the function of the cartridge in the platform itself goes, at least there are parts available for the ar10 that will let you tweek the operating system to (hopefully) function. Lightweight bcg, different buffer weights, different buffer springs. Unlike my 180-C project where nothing is available off the shelf and I'm still waiting for a place to get my custom made springs done.
It just depends how much money someone is willing to dump into something to get it functioning just right.
