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Hello all.
Last week I picked up this 700 in 22-250. Had one in 243 when they were new (2012?) and sold it, saying I’d get a .22-250 one day.
Anyway, 22” barrel 1/14 twist, nice satin blue, with a very stiff and nicely shaped factory stock. 5 lb 14oz naked.

Does anyone remember which model these were? The stock is way too nice to be just an ADL .

Limited run mountain guide; I believe stainless was Gander Mountain, and blued was Cabela’s

Thanks for your reply.
My poor memory is telling me the MtnGuides used B&C stocks and were heavier than this one?

B&C is correct; same stock as came on the titaniums in the years prior. That weight is correct.

Ok, thanks. I had the heavier, “chunkier” B&C in my mind.

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Nice score, by the way!

Thanks, taking it to the range this weekend hopefully!

Suggest you run a Foul Out before you shoot it. you can make one for less than $2 if you have a chamber plug.

Where in Georgia, I have a few extra boxes of .22-250....

I got really tired of the 14 twist myself

Thanks for your email .

Just outside of Stone Mtn (just for a couple of more years hopefully). I’ll PM.

The long bullets are cool but for now this will do just fine - it’s a neat rifle and for what I may use it for (possibly antelope but other rifles are asking to go as well, and just Range time) the lighter bullets will do the job

I have one of the fast twist RARs but and like the feel of this 700 better, and of course it’s easy to rebarrel a 700 if the mood hits..

I had a 14 twist 22-250 and shot all sorts of stuff with Winchester White Box 45gr HP. Had lots of fun and the critters all died quick.

Shoot 45gr to 55gr and go hunting. You will enjoy it.

My 14 twist would not shoot 55 grain Vmax, 52 grain Amax or any other plastic tipped bullet over 50 grains. It was a great Prairie dog shooter

I put thousands of the Hornady spire point 22 cal 60 grain through a pair of 14 inch twist 22-250s.

A Savage model 12 and a MIJ Weatherby Varmint Master both shot this bullet over 34.3 gr IMR3031 into less than MOA. The Wea killed my first deer. After trying 40s, 45s, 50s and 52s the first year. I settled on the 60 for everything from four ounce squirrels, to coyotes, to deer.

I worked up a couple loads for a friend of mine's M700 22 250.

Using Ramshot Big Game powder, i got loads with the 52 gr Berger HP and the Sierra 55 gr GK at just under 3700 FPS. Same POI and 1/2 MOA accuracy. First tried the traditional H380 loads but load workup with BG powder made it easy.

I could shoot standard bullets but the plastic tipped ones were too long. I also could not stabilize 60 grain Partitions.

The Partitons work best in a 12 or faster.

The Ballistic Tip normally does okay in a true 14 twist but I believe the V-Max is longer.

Pretty sure the 52 A-Max was long ad well. The 53 V-Max is recommended to have a tighter twist for sure.

Also possible your 14 trust was actually a little slower, not a true 14.

If you push them at or close to maximum safe pressure, the 64 grain PPs will work in most, but not all, 1-14" ROT 22-250s. The only deer that I have shot with them from the 22-250 and 223 WSSM got through/through penetration and one of the bigger blood spray fans that I've seen on a blanket of fresh snow.

My 14 twist 22-250's shoot the 53gr v-max just fine. Some of that depends on how fast you push them and the elevation you are at. If you are at sea level, they may not stabilize. I personally like and use the 53 because it has a higher bc than the 55 and 60gr v-max bullets. For killing deer, I'd just use a 55gr Hornady. My buddy uses his 22-250 on deer with no issues. Puts them down pretty well with that 55gr sp Hornady.

I’ve shot several thousand 55bt’s through 14twist 22-250’s. None of them (5) shot 55sierra BK or 53vmax well enough for me to use them. But I’m at 400’msl.

All of them shoot 55&60 hornady soft points very well and they both kill deer in short order. Sierra 1365 is hard to beat for a one bullet do it all. Shot a lot of them at pdogs to deer and they shoot great and kill everything I aim at. Probably my favorite all time coyote bullet is a 50BT pushed as hard as I can. I’ve probably shot more H4895 out of my 22-250’s than anything but 4064, varget, CFE223 have all worked well for me. Planning on trying staball when I get the time but my newest 22-250 is shooting 1365’s so well over H4895 that I might just be done experimenting.

Good luck with your rifle. I think you’ll really love it.

This has to be a west coast thing due to our higher elevation or "something or other."

I read all the time of where a 22 caliber centerfire with a 1 in 14 twist, WON'T shoot a 53 grain V Max. However out here, I have no issues with the bullet in ANY 22 caliber centerfire rifle I own. Most common powders I use in the 22.250, with the 1 in 14 twists I have, are RL 7 and H 322.

a few guys I've loaded for in the past, have taken local blacktails with the 53 V Max. Haven't tried it, as I have a zillion other alternatives, but it wasn't hard for shot placement. haven't seen it, but they told me about it, having no clue that it wasn't suppose to work, but it did. who knows.

Cousin of mine in West Virginia, has hunted deer using a 22.250 for the last 40 years. His wife's family always came up to hunt on his property from Florida ever year, and always seemed to be short rifles with the extra kids they brought with them each year, using the rest of Benny's rifles. They were skunking out one season, and they get home, and his wife tells them, she shot a buck across a 4 acres field from the house, that was raiding an apple tree.

Ben asked her what did she shoot it with, since they had all the rifles out. She told him the one he had left at home, which was his new 22.250. He called BS, especially when she told him it was up under one of the apple trees up across the front property. She told him she aimed at the eye and it dropped at the shot. One of the kids wandered up to take a look and came back, with his pants on fire, telling the adults there was a big old buck dead up there. They went up and sure enough, there it lay.

He's been using it ever since then, and takes deer all year round, having an Orchard Permit . He's given away most of his rifles to younger boys in the family. He's 74 now.. and the 22.250 is the one rifle he still has and he and his wife both use it, even if she is just sniping out the kitchen window when she takes one.

Their boys to this day, think beef taste funny so they don't eat it... they grew up eating venison and pork. Most of them taken with that 22.250.

I use only one load in my Model 7 Predator 22-250, 1-14 ROT, and that's a 40 grain Nosler BT and 39.5 grains of Varget. I have had other 22-250's, all 1-14's, and have shot 50, 52, and 55 grain bullets, all with good accuracy. In my way of thinking, it was designed for speed, and the lighter weight bullet, the faster it goes.

Great story John.