Home Forums Hunting & Shooting General Big Game Critiquing the 22-250 for antelope

Nope, BC doesn't bother me. Just wondering about Bullets integrity if bone is encountered or penetration is required.
Sierra lists it as a Varmint bullet, and some on here don't think Sierra can make a good game bullet, even when they try.

Hell, just use a 250 grain premium .338WM bullet. End of worries. . It will penetrate bone and not leave such a massive wound. Eat right up to the hole, the premium users tell me.

Sierra does have a 65 gr. Gameking SBT for larger game. They do specify that it requires a 1 in 10 or faster twist so I don't know how it would shoot in my 1 in 14.

And then there's the 8 twist .22-250 which opens up all kinda bullet options.

I really like mine, a Mohawk with 8 twist CM Shilen, Timney, aftermarket aluminum bottom metal, VX-3 1.75-6x32.

Right now I'm using 60 gr. Ralph Council bullets because I have a bunch and they're super accurate. It's my truck gun for hogs, etc. Handy, quick to action, deadly.

This gun loves 80 gr. VLD's and a variety of bullets on down the line; no worry about what does or doesn't stabilize, they all do.

DF

I just got a .22-250 with a 1 in 8 twist barrel, it shoots Federal factory 55 gr NBTs really well but I shot a big hog this weekend with it and was less than impressed. I picked up some 62 gr Barnes TTSXs and am going to work up some loads. Anyone had any experience with this bullet.

Tell us more about what it did/didn't do to that hog.

DF

Now, that wasn't very nice...

DF

Hit it in the shoulder from about 200 yards hog went about 150-200 yards into some thick stuff. Just a little blood where animal was standing. Did not find it till 2 days later when I saw some buzzards on it so not a lot of post mortum, was a pretty big pig though 180 #s or so.

Did really light up a coyote though! First time out with the rifle, built by Hill Country Rifles. Stiller action, 23" # 4 8 twist fluted barrel and McMillan Sporter stock.

I have culled a bunch of Oryx, Blue Wildebeest and Red Hartebeest with them in Namibia, and found them to be a great killer. Most of them stayed inside but then these are very big bodied animals for the little pill.

In the same hunt I shot some springboks with them and they were equally good killers, passing through all the time.

All the recovered bullets looked the same. Here are some samples.

Thanks chamois that's exactly the info I was looking for. We have to take a bunch of relatively small whitetails off our place this year and this was what I thought to use.

I agree with Hidalgo, that's good onfo.

I need to try that bullet in my gun.

Thanks for sharing.

DF

All the discussion on bullets can be put in 2 catagories:
fast twist
slow twist

They aren't all that interchangeable. Mine's a slow twist.

True.

Once you go fast, you won't go slow again...

DF

Yesterday I didn't buy a Tika 3 .22-250 on sale for $650 at Sportsman because it is a 14" twist. It even has a fluted barrel made specifically for Sportsman. No matter how I tried to get my mind around it I just couldn't do it.

Nope.

I'd have passed, too.

Once you work with 8 twist, 14 just isn't very interesting.

No matter the deal, no matter how nice.

I'd pick up a donor SA 700 and install an 8 twist tube.

It would cost more than $650, but would be a lot more useful, IMO.

DF

Good thread and always interesting to hear first-hand bullet performance.

Congrats RC!

But of course 270s demand a head shot, right? since no sarcasm icon.

I aggree with your concerns completely.

Do you think a 60gr NP might if the load were adjusted?

Is the partition shorter than the TSX? If so it might work.