Mil Surplus 22-250.... umm WHAT?

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Looking around Wholesale sports yesterday and I saw UMC mil surplus marked 22-250 ammo.
Now what army used 22-250 and in what gun?? Just doesnt make any sence to me.
While I am at it, anyone shoot this ammo at all? its about the same price as the 40 round boxes of white box win ammo, but what one is better?

On the wholesale website it says governement surplus, but I dont know how thats different then mil surplus.
 
The British SAS did at one time have a Tikka M55 chambered in 22-250 and used for sniping. There may have been others.
 
I was told by a retired LEO that 22-250 was used as an urban sniper round. Sometimes it was used along side a larger cal like .308 and were sometimes timed so one sniper would shoot a window a fraction of a second before another would shoot the bad guy.
I cannot back up these statements, just what a retired LEO told me.
 
Yes the RCMP used 22-250 as their "tactical rifle" round for quite some time. however I doubt that this is theirs. It could belong to any gov't agency, including natural resources.
 
CV32 said:
The British SAS did at one time have a Tikka M55 chambered in 22-250 and used for sniping. There may have been others.
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So does this mean I could use my 22-250 in an F class shoot?


PS, I am only kinda sure F class is the one where it needs to be or have been a military round at some point for some army.
 
i seem to recall seeing an australian police sniper rifle in 22-250 for sale on the internet a few years ago.
 
The Australian SAS were using 22-250 chambered Tikka sniper rifles not too long ago, I believe that some Australian police departments were transferred or were convinced to use the round/rifle combination in the lead up to the Sydney Olympics. Very much doubt it would have been UMC ammo they were buying though. Bit of a mystery round...most Australian forces ammunition is manufactured by ADI (Australian Defence Industries) and I doubt there would have been enough volume to justify setting up production in a precision caliber. ADI is now owned by Thales, for those with any interest in the the Land Down Under.
 
I've shot lot's of the UMC surplus ammo. 40 grain HP. Also shot some of the win white box walmart ammo. My experience was the UMC shot very well and shot better than the Winchester stuff. Just my $0.02, Eric
 
It is simply a marketing strategy for Remington. Much as the Winchester White Box or the Federal American Eagle. It's just plain jane price leader ammo.
 
I asked about buying this bulk before, My dad, bought 5000 rounds off of a cop he knew back in the 80's they used to play with this gun in nanaimo all the time from what I understand, supposedly they couldnt get them to group so they chose another rifle
 
Jeff000 said:
So does this mean I could use my 22-250 in an F class shoot?


PS, I am only kinda sure F class is the one where it needs to be or have been a military round at some point for some army.
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You can shoot a .22-250 in F Class and you always could. However that caliber puts you in the F(O) open class. In order to shoot F(F) it must be either a .223/5.56 or .308/7.62 caliber. The bullet weight restriction of 81 gr for F(F) and TR is under review and may change to unlimited.
 
Rcmp 22-250

redleg said:
Yes the RCMP used 22-250 as their "tactical rifle" round for quite some time. however I doubt that this is theirs. It could belong to any gov't agency, including natural resources.
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The RCMP .22-250 was marked Imperial and fired a 55 gr hollowpoint. The bullet had a deep void space that extended about 1/3 of the bullet length back from the tip. I expect that it was fairly "explosive" on contact.

I don't think they have used it in years. An RCMP ERT guy passed on 250 rnds of it to a friend mine a few years ago. He's been using it on coyotes and has been very happy with the results.
 
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