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Dropped by Wally World hour ago to look longingly at the space where the rimfire ammo used to be stacked, and noticed there were more rifles in stock than in past few months.
700 Ute .243 w scope $417. Ruger American .243 $357. Savage 10XP .243 or .308 w scope $$447, rem 783 W '06 or .243 $389.
But the one that gave me a cheapazz loony tingle was unscoped Axis .22/250: 9-twist bbl, 6.5 lbs. $277. Got several ok scopes I could drop on it and good amt of factory ammo on hand.
Anybody rockin one of these for a truck gun. If so, are ya happy w it, worked up any heavy bullet loads, etc.?
I know the Ute would have more resale, but that extra $140 could buy a lot of powder & BBs.
What do y'all say?
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I have a one in 7 twist on a Ruger 22.250 there Ing... minus 90 grain bullets, it won't give you anything that a one in 9 twist won't give ya... so that applies to a one in 8 also..
CC: I've been looking at those at my Local Wally World also..
While I don't really need another rifle, at that price, what could go wrong? Back east you boys wouldn't really have the targets to heat up the barrel like we would out this way..
but for $277 bucks, it is really hard to pass by.. one could have a lot of trigger time with one, and then sell it for $150 to $175 and do it again.... and again.... and again... and agani...
Look at it like you are sort of renting it... not like it is going to be a family airelome to pass down.... unless the Obummer Administration just comes to take all of our guns away...
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Like most here, I got far more rifles than I need, but a .22/250 will kill anything in Tennessee wif alacrity. Even an elk... Gave a 788 in that caliber to my youngest few years back and he promptly grassed a couple slick heads w it. I didn't tell him Rem 55-gr. CLs were for varmints only, so he just heartshot them and started gutting. Nearly 200 yards and they went straight down. Now the little [bleep] won't let me use it for a truck gun and my ARs have tripled in value... Wife keeps makin me do chores today may go grap it up for revenge... 
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Might drop the 6x42 on it for crows, coyotes & Sich this off-season.
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sometime a couple summers ago i bought an axis in 223 from wmt when they were on sale for 239.00. mine is very accurate with 55gr bullets, and functions just fine. the axis doesn't have the smoothest bolt throw, and the stock isn't the best either, but for a cheap rifle it fires every time. i've used mine to kill 25 or 30 coyotes, and almost that many beavers and nutria. for the money, they are a good deal imo.
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Dropped by Wally World hour ago to look longingly at the space where the rimfire ammo used to be stacked, and noticed there were more rifles in stock than in past few months.
700 Ute .243 w scope $417. Ruger American .243 $357. Savage 10XP .243 or .308 w scope $$447, rem 783 W '06 or .243 $389.
But the one that gave me a cheapazz loony tingle was unscoped Axis .22/250: 9-twist bbl, 6.5 lbs. $277. Got several ok scopes I could drop on it and good amt of factory ammo on hand.
Anybody rockin one of these for a truck gun. If so, are ya happy w it, worked up any heavy bullet loads, etc.?
I know the Ute would have more resale, but that extra $140 could buy a lot of powder & BBs.
What do y'all say?
There's no way I could walk away from that chambering, with that twist, at that price. Travis
Trump being classless,tasteless and clueless as usual. Sorry, trump is a no tax payin pile of shiit. My young wife decided to play the field and had moved several dudes into my house
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Why dont you check out Wally World in Le Harve?
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Why dont you check out Wally World in Le Harve? They told me I'm too white trash to shop there. Travis
Trump being classless,tasteless and clueless as usual. Sorry, trump is a no tax payin pile of shiit. My young wife decided to play the field and had moved several dudes into my house
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OK, unlike the wedding rumors...I'll believe that...
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I'd save my money and buy a Remington 700 243.
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The Savage site, www.savagearms.com, shows the Axis in 22-250 with a 1-12" ROT and the 223 with a 1-9" ROT. I hate the ergs of the Axis stocks, so they are a non-starter for me, regardless of the price. I have rechambered several Stevens 200 1-9" ROT 223 barrels to 22-250 with excellent results. If you wanted a 1-9" 22-250, you could start with a Stevens 200 in 223, swap the bolt head, the magazine assembly, and have your 'smith cut a 22-250 chamber. My pick for an under $400 CF rifle would be the Marlin X guns, even though Remington has managed their very best to ruin Marlin's fine reputation for producing quality, accurate, rifles for a fair price. I have seven X guns and they shoot very well, a lot of accuracy for $300+/-. The catch being that Marlin doesn't catalog an X gun sporter in 22-250 and the heavy barrel 22-250 that they do catalog, X7VH, has a 1-14" ROT.
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Why dont you check out Wally World in Le Harve? They told me I'm too white trash to shop there. Travis Wait a sec! Y'all have a town in Montana called Lee Harvey? That is eight different kinds of Redneck Badassery! I'm on call this weekend and ain't been back to the store yet (or had any sleep, he whined piteously), and things are still hopping.
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I was so tickled by that town name I didn't read 260RG's post. I based my post on the tag on the gun. Even took a pic w phone but too dead tired to post. I am willing to entertain the notion Wal-Mart may have totally screwed the pooch, however. They show a sku 19053. When I Google dat I get a Walmart page wif info on a 9 twist .22/250! But it also says it comes w IC, Mod & Full choke tubes. In my dojo we never go tighter than Skeet on a Varmint caliber. 
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I was so tickled by that town name I didn't read 260RG's post. I based my post on the tag on the gun. Even took a pic w phone but too dead tired to post. I am willing to entertain the notion Wal-Mart may have totally screwed the pooch, however. They show a sku 19053. When I Google dat I get a Walmart page wif info on a 9 twist .22/250! But it also says it comes w IC, Mod & Full choke tubes. In my dojo we never go tighter than Skeet on a Varmint caliber. 
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The Savage site, www.savagearms.com, shows the Axis in 22-250 with a 1-12" ROT and the 223 with a 1-9" ROT. I hate the ergs of the Axis stocks, so they are a non-starter for me, regardless of the price. I have rechambered several Stevens 200 1-9" ROT 223 barrels to 22-250 with excellent results. If you wanted a 1-9" 22-250, you could start with a Stevens 200 in 223, swap the bolt head, the magazine assembly, and have your 'smith cut a 22-250 chamber. My pick for an under $400 CF rifle would be the Marlin X guns, even though Remington has managed their very best to ruin Marlin's fine reputation for producing quality, accurate, rifles for a fair price. I have seven X guns and they shoot very well, a lot of accuracy for $300+/-. The catch being that Marlin doesn't catalog an X gun sporter in 22-250 and the heavy barrel 22-250 that they do catalog, X7VH, has a 1-14" ROT. I went limp... Travis
Trump being classless,tasteless and clueless as usual. Sorry, trump is a no tax payin pile of shiit. My young wife decided to play the field and had moved several dudes into my house
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Stopped by our other Wally in town and gun counter guy brought me up a box/papers for a .22/250 and neither it nor the barrel showed twist.
Same SKU as one @ other store. Got range tomorrow @work but will try to squeeze in call to Savage and see if they are indeed sellin a fast-twist '250 Grail for $277 via WallaceWhirled.
260, thinking Travis is prolly too young to need Viagra. His age group is usually turgid as an Axis stock wifout pharmaceutical splints.
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Well, he did indicate that he'd gone limp and Viagra is the only medicine for limpishness that I know of.
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