Largest Animal You've Taken With a 22-250?

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So I was looking at my 22-250 today and got to thinking about animals I have harvested with it. About the largest animal I have taken to date with any 22-250 I have owned would be a couple of fully grown adult coyotes. What is the largest you have taken with your 22-250?
 
I got a small whitetail buck, my dad dealt with a small nuisance bear. I liked the 60gr partitions in my old vanguard s2. If I still had a 22-250 I'd be comfortable with shooting deer out to a couple hundred yards.
 
I have shot a few full-grown wolves and a mule deer using 60 grain Partitions launched from a 22-250. While the deer was bigger the wolves were much more heavily muscled.
 
A crow. It blew up really well, too! :)

I don't have a 22-250 (used a borrowed one), so I have to use the .223 for the bigger stuff!

(running, ducking, laughing at the pending poo-fest!)


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I know a chap who told me he downed a moose with a 22-250... he seemed believable to me and he seemed like the kind of guy who would try too... I wouldnt but... just figured id chime in.
 
All I heard was that it was one heck of an accurate, long range cartridge. Guy at the Range Safety training course said that his could consistently take out a pop can at a measured 1 mile! I said nothing.
 
Lots of white tail from mid to large, well-muscled - and just one bear - with everything from 55 grain Sierra SP at 3800 fps down to 35 grain v-max at 4200 fps. Mostly, the bullet disintegrates and the ribs become the bullets, but strangely, the bullet went right through the bears chest and out the other side - leaving a looney sized hole. That one was loaded too hot - just over 4000 fps with a 52 or 55 grain (I don't remember.)
 
Keep it by the back door ready to go for coyotes, real problem around here, love the fact it can reach out and touch one 300 yds no problem.
 
trebor2880 said:
All I heard was that it was one heck of an accurate, long range cartridge. Guy at the Range Safety training course said that his could consistently take out a pop can at a measured 1 mile! I said nothing.
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Reminds me of the CORE instructor who told his students that he can gut, 1/4 and skin a bull moose by himself in 15 minutes.
 
hunting buddy of mine shots one for deer, factory rem 55 gr sp. every deer I ever helped him drag out had a exit hole, all lung shots.

another friend swears by 55 gr nosler bt. he has shot many a nuisance bear with it. there fairly common for deer here in mb used by people who rnt all that into guns and never read on the internet that the 22-250 is ways to small for deer. they don't have any issued provided they use a bullet that hangs together a bit.
 
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