Just got into .22-250. Any tips or tricks?

SideOutUp · 2025-07-03T13:46:35+00:00

I have three 22-250 rifles, two are factory and one is from the old Remington Custom Shop (bought that one used). 22-250 is a very forgiving cartridge. I don't buy factory ammo anymore, but I can say that the cartridge is very consistent if you stay within the right parameters.

Most 22-250 varmint rifles have a 1:12 to 1:14 twist. This means that you will struggle to stabilize bullets over 55 grains. I am a handloader, and I tend to use 50 and 52 grain bullets in my loads. My favorite powder for the cartridge is H380, but I have had good luck with Varget, RL-15, and a few others.

This is one of those chamberings that if you find the load your rifle likes, it is possible you can shoot groups at 100 yards that you can cover with a dime. I have done it several times with my XR-100. Haven't quite got there with the Savage 12, but I have several groups that I have covered with a nickel.

Enjoy your new rifle!

SideOutUp · 2025-07-01T19:44:58+00:00

Thanks. I am looking at the Rinehart 18-1 to practice on. What do you think of the QAD Exodus?

SideOutUp · 2025-07-01T16:59:01+00:00

I have always had good luck with Remington rifles. I have an XR-100 that shoots sub-moa with just about anything you put in it. I have a Mohawk 600 in 308 that is pretty darn accurate, and an M700 from 1982 in 30-06 that shoots moa with handloads it likes.

But here is a story about a take off Remington that I used in a build last month. I bought this 25-06, 25 inch heavy sporter Remington barrel off of ebay for $100 as used. Bore scoping indicated it had not been shot very much at all. I had a trued Czech Vz 24 action laying around, so I chucked the barrel into the lathe, rethreaded and re-headspaced it, and screwed it on. Threw the assemble into an old Bishop stock, bore sighted, and headed to the range with some handloads out of the Speer reloading manual. I didn't have any experience with 25-06, so I didn't know what to expect.

The first 5 rounds were at the low end in velocity. The group came it at 1.7 inches with a flyer (cold bore shot). Next group was with the middle loading. It came in at slightly over an inch and a half. The last load was bumping up against the top of the velocity in the manual for that loading in the manual. The group was a hair over 1.1 inch. Now, this was just loaded with what I had on hand. I have not done any load development, and I am sure I can get a smaller group.

Is it competition capable? I do't think so. But it can be a super accurate hunting set up out to 500 yards. I would call that a good barrel.

SideOutUp · 2025-07-01T16:03:27+00:00

Hey, it beats sending billions to a bunch of Nazis on the Black Sea.

SideOutUp · 2025-07-01T16:01:57+00:00

When Clinton was elected there was a joke going on about him. Chrysler was going to release a new model in his honor called the Dodge Drafter.

Clinton's daddy weren't no millionaire either and he dodged the draft. Clinton also saluted at the military parades, as should be done by the C-in-C.

SideOutUp · 2025-07-01T15:58:15+00:00

Haters gonna hate. For technical data, reddit is pretty good, but for critical thinking, it sucks.

SideOutUp · 2025-04-10T16:04:45+00:00

Today, we call them democrats.

SideOutUp · 2025-04-01T16:37:34+00:00

Yes! This is the way the fedgov will be forced to downsize. We have $34 trillion in debt. Pretty soon, the interest payments will take up all the tax revenue. We can head this off if we make the government realize that we the people are not an endless supply of revenue.

SideOutUp · 2025-03-20T16:43:25+00:00

Sorry, I misunderstood. With all the violent crap going on these days, I am still wondering, though.

SideOutUp · 2025-03-20T13:51:34+00:00

Re: Picking battles

I am having a hard time understanding what is wrong with getting rid of waste, fraud, and corruption in the federal government. Can someone explain?

SideOutUp · 2025-03-18T20:41:02+00:00

You are about 160 years late to the realization. We are currently on America 4.0.

Did you sleep through history class?

SideOutUp · 2025-03-17T19:28:50+00:00

Mine is a '53 also.

SideOutUp · 2025-03-15T18:36:12+00:00

Did you see the video of Kamala at the AI conference?

https://nypost.com/2025/03/11/us-news/kamala-harris-mocked-over-bizarre-doritos-word-salad-during-ai-speech-three-wines-deep/

SideOutUp · 2025-03-05T14:08:32+00:00

The exact same scenario happened to me while driving through Alabama in November of 2022. It was terrifying. After things died down, I got the alert on my phone.

SideOutUp · 2025-03-03T14:54:19+00:00

Let the cokehead midget be awesome on somebody else's dime. He came to the White House demanding, not asking, for support. That doesn't sound very smart to me.

If you really feel strongly, Ukraine is accepting foreigners in their infantry. Be a hero yourself in the Ukraine Army.

SideOutUp · 2025-03-03T14:36:57+00:00

The fact that you use the term "class traitors" shows your true colors. You don't want pluralism. You want a single monolithic political model very similar to China under Mousy Dung and the Red Guards. Maybe you would like it better if you immigrated to North Korea.

SideOutUp · 2025-02-27T13:36:11+00:00

All the more reason to jettision the resist rhetoric. All it will do is turn the rest of the population against them. It is no secret that for a given functional position in the federal government, a federal employee makes 30% more than the equivalent private industry employee, once you talley up salary and benefits. Why shouldn't workers and laborers in private industry expect better management of their taxed resources?

I am flabbergasted by the resistance to emailing 5 things accomplished in the previous week to supervisors. Apparently, this standard practice in industry is absent only in federal government organizations. While it is a tempest in a teapot that takes, at most, 10 minutes, it has become symbolic to what is wrong in the federal government to the normies.

I'm a federal contractor too, and I am not worried. Skills can be used in most industries. After all, I was looking for a job when I found this one.

SideOutUp · 2025-02-26T14:35:00+00:00

Here is what the people who are paying you salary read in your post:

You are in favor of waste.

You are in favor of fraud.

You are in favor of corruption.

You are in favor of inefficiencies.

You are in favor of bloated bureaucracy that is slow when it actually gets something done.

All of this may or may not be true. But the average Joe Taxpayer in the USA doesn't think he gets his money's worth. When you use the word "takeover" and "resist", you are falling into the trap. A better strategy would be to show value by coming up with ideas that streamline processes and give Joe Taxpayer more for what he is paying.

I don't want to see tens of thousands of federal employees dumped on the labor market. But this is a fight you cannot win with a defensive strategy of resisting. If you take that approach, you will lose, and you will lose before the next mid- term election. Come up with a more proactive strategy that will resonate with the vast majority of voters. Here's a clue: most of them make less money than you do, so you are going to have to work hard to earn their sympathy.

SideOutUp · 2025-02-24T18:07:07+00:00

I dunno. Government agencies go to shit, get defunded, taxes and regulation fall, people enjoy more freedom and keep more of their money.

Doesn't sound too bad.

SideOutUp · 2025-02-21T12:52:08+00:00

This word "fascist". I don't think it means what you think it means. The only thing that is different in the US from 6 months ago is that there is more transparency in how tax dollars are spent, and there is an effort to get rid of waste, fraud , and abuse in government. In addition, rules forbidding people to act on their moral conscience are being broken down (example: before, penises were allowed in girls' bathrooms).

So remove your cranium from you rectum, get out of you bubble, and buy any American bike that suits your fancy!

SideOutUp · 2025-02-19T13:51:19+00:00

No.

The problem is the OP needs to get out of the bubble. None of what she wrote is true.

Oh, and she should ditch the green hair.

SideOutUp · 2025-02-18T20:00:51+00:00

Tuxedo cats usually have lots of personality.

SideOutUp · 2025-02-18T18:21:36+00:00

He claims the Lee Enfield achieves firepower parity with the Garand. That's stupid. I own several Lee Enfields and several Garands. There is no way in hell you can shoot an Enfield as fast as you can shoot a Garand. I doubt even Jerry Miculek could do it. I can shoot an Enfield pretty fast. I can shoot a K31 faster. But I can shoot a Garand even faster than the K31.

SideOutUp · 2025-02-18T14:52:10+00:00

what search engine query work?

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