22-250

[IvoB]

If you can hit a 6 inch paper plate at 200 yards it's "Coyote Approved"

 

[Els-]

Your looking for 1" or less 3 shot groups at 200 yards. A good rifle, good handloads, good shooter control you should be 3/4" on a varmint rifle in 22-250.
If your rifles throwing the first cold bore shot away from the rest of the group theres probably some issues with it.

Im guessing if your out in essex you probably got some decent yardage to play with. 3 moa/6" at 200 yards isnt going to cut it specially anything out past 200 yards.
Coyotes here are so used to being shot at its normally a 250+ yard shot.

If you want to try some different grain nosler ballistic tips I have some to spare. What powder are you currently using? How many grains? Oval/ crimp?

Factory rifle and store bought ammo thats a different ball park.

 

[sharp shooter]

Well I had no luck with the 55’s today but didn’t test all of them. 55gr NBT and IMR 4895 shot bad. 4” group bad. The 50 SBK, 52 and 53 Hornady match all shot .75” to .5” groups with varget and 4064.

 

[Els-]

Sounds like your on the right track with the varget and 4064, Were there any 55 grain loaded in either of those powders?

 

[Jwd]

Time to step up your game there son . Get with the times !!
14tw pffft …lol

 

[sharp shooter]

Yes JWD, I need a 1:1 twist 223 to shoot 200gr ELVLDLX bullets at 100 yards for coyotes like you.

 

[sharp shooter]

There are other 55gr loads to try but after I shot the .5” group I let the gun cool down then pulled out a few other tack drivers and never finished shooting all the 22-250 loads. I was enjoying my 222 and 243 too much. Those two guns are silly accurate. We were shooting a gong at 325 yards and the paint on the gong showed a 2” group with the 243…

 

[Potashminer]

sharp shooter - I am in similar boat - .243" 55 grain V-Max just stupid silly good in my .243 Win rifle with start load of Ramshot Hunter powder - like who would chose that? So what reason for new-to-me 22-250?? The PC-10 223 Rem does very nicely with .224" 55 grain V-Max. Old school 22-250 - I think when still named a "Varminter" - were 50 grain - hence 1:14" twist - so some 52 grain flat base Speer HP on order to get that one working, I hope. Is very tight space to squeeze in - between .223 Rem with 55 grain and .243 Win with 55 grain.

 

[sharp shooter]

Ya I haven't even played much with the 55's yet. I do have a load with 55's worked up for a 243 BAR that shoot silly accurate. I have another 22-250 that shoots 40gr NBT's really fast and really accurate that I take hunting for coyotes so this 22-250 heavyweight I'm trying to shoot 55's with is just for fun. I'll likely just settle on some 52-53gr target bullets and have fun with it. I'd like to try the 52gr Speer bullets, they have good reviews and are cheaper than any others.

 

[Blackjack21]

Have a friend who swears by flat based bullets in his 22-250. Only thing that would group for him.

 

[RVG_Don]

- hence 1:14" twist - so some 52 grain flat base Speer HP on order to get that one working, I hope. Is very tight space to squeeze in - between .223 Rem with 55 grain and .243 Win with 55 grain.

for our 1:14, 26", 250 I load the speer 52gr hp and am very happy with them

 

[sharp shooter]

Is that the Speer hollow point boat tail match or hollow point Varmint. For the price I’d like to try them.

 

[RVG_Don]

The Speer Varmint Hollow Point flat bottom

 

[Potashminer]

Something might have changed. Speer Loading Manual #14 lists two bullets - .224" 52 grain. One is "22 HP" - #1035 - is flat base - is what I have ordered to try. Other one is "22 Match BTHP" - #1036. The Match bullet looks to be longer of the two, from picture in the book. Is no mention of "Varmint", in the loading manual, although that word might be on the box - have not yet received them to know.

I have some .308" Speer bullets - in the book are called "30 HP" - #1835. On the "new" Speer boxes it says "Varmint" - mostly black label with Gold lettering - I am so old most Speer boxes, to me, were yellow, with black label and yellow lettering for logo. The word "Varmint" is not used in the loading manual for these bullets, nor on the yellow box packaging. For some years, I have been ordering bullets by their Brand and their Part Number, not by name on the box - always received what I wanted, that way.

Same bullets - Speer #1835 - different era boxes - different word names:

 

[Potashminer]

To confirm - the Speer #1035 bullets showed up today, and do indeed have the word "Varmint" on the box - in gold letters - similar logo layout to my last post, with mostly black label and "Speer" in white letters within a gold banner. I will be trying these in my new-to-me 1:14" twist 22-250.

 

[sharp shooter]

Thanks, let us know how you do with rose Speers. I can’t find any 53 Hornady match anywhere.

Anybody know how the Hornady 52gr HPBT Match compare to the 53gr HPFB match?

 

[dan belisle]

I have owned a few 1-14 twist 22-250's. All shot well with 52 gr HP bullets, either Speer, Hornady or Sierra. - dan

 

[shoota]

I am guessing my local Wally World is getting out of the ammunition business due to the deal I snagged the other night. I haven't graced the place with my presence in a good 2+ years. Wife sends me there the other night, take a browse down by the ammo case, basically empty besides some 17 HMR, 1 box of 7mm rem mag and a couple boxes of 12 gauge and to my surprise 4 boxes of .22-250 55gr Hornady Varmit Express for half price @ $24/box, you better believe I grabbed the last 4 boxes.

 

[remington jim]

All of those bullets normally shoot Well ! in a 22-250 1-14 twist with any of these loads ! RJ

34 grs IMR3031
35 grs IMR4895 or H4895
36 grs IMR4064
39.5 H380

Max loads ! Start 2 grs lower and work UP !

 

[sharp shooter]

Jim,
The 55 NBT with IMR 4895 was one of the worst I’ve ever concocted.