Home Forums Reloading Varmint Rifles 22.250 and Nosler's 35 grain Lead Free

Don't know if anyone has tried these little jewels.. being lead free they are about the length of the 50 grain Ballistic Tip...

was checking out Hodgdon's Load Data Site, and this info caught my eye...for the velocity nuts, there is some pretty darn attractive numbers here... and the ones I have tried have been accurate as hell...

Try these numbers on for size:

35 GR. NOS LF
Starting Loads
Maximum Loads
Manufacturer
Powder
Bullet Diam.
C.O.L.
Grs.
Vel. (ft/s)
Pressure
Grs.
Vel. (ft/s)
Pressure
IMR
IMR 4320 .224" 2.350" 37.5 4,084 50,600 PSI
39.9 4,393 61,600 PSI
IMR
IMR 4064 .224" 2.350" 34.7 3,855 41,200 PSI
38.5C 4,342 56,400 PSI

IMR
IMR 4166 .224" 2.350" 35.8 3,926 46,600 PSI
39.8C 4,332 60,300 PSI


IMR
IMR 4895 .224" 2.350" 36.8 4,087 48,400 PSI
39.2 4,396 59,900 PSI


IMR
IMR 8208 XBR. 224" 2.350" 35.1 4,096 46,900 PSI
39.0 4,469 60,700 PSI

IMR
IMR 3031 .224" 2.350" 32.9 4,016 44,300 PSI
35.0 4,306 55,600 P

62,500 PSI is SAAMI limits on this cartridge...

not bad?

I shoot these in my 22-250AI. 4,800 FPS with a 24" barrel.

What is this, the southern Oregon chapter of the fire?

How do the expand, what are they built like?

Hey Seafire, How be ye?

When I saw that you were the author of this thread I knew that I had to read it and see what was happening in Oregon.

I did have a small contribution to add to the 22-250/35g combo with my own little results without all the additional info that you findings present.

I bought some 35g. Hornady NXT's and ran them through a favorite varmint rig, a Rem 700 VSSF I, that is a hum dinger for accuracy. I was pushing that load with 33.8g of RL-7 and through my chronograph I got a high of 4411fps a low of 4246fps and an average of 4329fps with an extreme spread of 165 and a Standard Dev. of 61. Group size was as expected in the .30-.60 but as you already know, a point of impact change.

I developed that load mainly to shoot crows with and after some thought about how much I love that rifle, decided not to shoot anymore of that round out of it other than what is left of the 50 that I loaded up.

I did pop a couple of crows on a day when it wasn't windy at 240 and 320 yards and it looked like somebody held a down pillow full of black down up in a 30mph wind and sliced it open.