Home Forums Reloading Varmint Rifles 22-250, What loads are you using?

I tried a BUNCH of different powders and bullets in my 1:12 twist 22-250 and finally tried the above load today. Prior to that, group sizes for 5 shot groups went around 1 to 1.5 inches at 100 yards. I finally dug out the IMR 4895 I bought way back when a pound of it went for $12 and got a 0.5 inch 5 shot group. Here is the load:

Case: Winchester
Primer: WLR
Bullet: Sierra 55 gr. Varminter (this is a soft nosed and not a hollow point bullet)
Powder: 35.5 gr. IMR 4895
COAL: About 2.475 in.

I'll take an accurate load over a hot load any day.

One group?

Yes; one group with that particular powder charge. Obviously not a definitive evaluation for me but it looks much more promising than the other stuff I tried including the highly touted Superformance.

I also tried 1 grain under that and 0.5 grains over that with 3 shot groups being a bit over one inch and a bit under once inch respectively.

Shoot some more and let us know. Hopefully you have found your load.

60gr Hornady SP @ 2.38"
Remington case
CCI BR2 primer
39.7gr of Norma URP
3,506 fps

I borrowed the load from a friend who shoots the same gun I do and shot 3, 3 shot groups averaging 1,85"@245 yds on a perfectly calm 60�F morning.

I could give you loads but my rifle is not yours, if you used my loads you would only be loading for my rifle.

My rifle likes 39.0 gr of H-414 with a 50 gr V-Max or Ballistic Tip or 38.0 gr of Big Game with the same bullets or a 50 gr Speer TNT.

try 55gr hpbt gk
39gr h380,it works great for anything

55 Berger and Varget is perking well in my 22/250

Dober

i was out trying some new loads yesterday and lo and behold..........i found a load for barnes 50gr tsx in a 1-14 twist that works!37.5 h380 oal 2.350.shot 3/4 inch,the 50gr ttsx not so much.but i still prefer sierra gmk hpbt

jrose:

If you are still reading these posts, I have had good results with several powders e.g. IMR 4064, AA 2230, H4895 in my 1x12 twist 22/250.

For bullets, my favorites are the 52 gr. Speer HP and Sierra 40 gr HP.

I have shot the V Maxes and Sierra Blitz Kings, but the first two listed kill very well.

It's hard to find a BAD load for just about any 22-250. About 20 years ago I was on a 22-250 loading kick and had so many good loads that I finally settled on just one so that I could be more familiar with my trajectory, wind drift, etc. and therefore hit where I'm aiming more often. I also load 16 other cartridges now so there's no time for the 22-250 experiments. So now the 22-250 only gets 55 gr. Ballistic Tips driven by 35.5 gr. of IMR-4320 in carefully prepped brass with CCI B.R. primers. Runs about 3530 fps out of my Mod. 700 Varmint Spl. and devastates woodchucks even when they are way out there.

I load 50gr molyed V-maxs over 38.5gr of RE-15 for 3900FPS. Some cool launchs on small critters and deadly on yotes. Like most varmint bullets a fast v-max will make a mess out of a head shot yote but if you keep shots in the boiler room, small hole in and normaly no exit but a dead yote

The 22-250 has the home camo painted stock.

Im running 34.0 grs of benchmark winchester brass seated at book max. My brass is all annealed and prepped. Pushing a 50gr nosler combined technology bullet with WLR primers. My kimber 22-250 shoots in the .2s and .3s with this load. The remmy BDL also shot this load very well. Puts coyotes down on the spot have not had a runner yet. If ya hit a bone be ready to do some sewing.

Here is my best 22-250 Varmint load for my standard weight barrel Ruger No.1.



Not only accurate but quite effective.
Rock Chucks shot at short range are literately caped out.
I've taken chucks out to 500 yards with it.


300 yard chuck kill.

Appreciate all the imput you guys have given.
There are several loads here that I'll be trying in my heavy barrel 22-250.

Steve

I tried several different loads in my Ruger Predator, and the most accurate by far was 39.5 grains of Varget and the 40 grain VMax bullet.

My favorite loads are with 50 Vmax or Blitzking and either 3031 or H4895..

That's been my experience. I load for my buddies new savage trophy hunter XP and it isn't finicky at all. His other 22-250 is a Thompson center venture and it shoots sub moa as well. Here are some loads I tried in his savage:

50 CT Ballistic Silvertip or Noz BT over 37.2 grains of RL-15 right now, coyotes do not care for this bullet. Fed GM primers.

Really liked 55 Ballistic Tips over a max load of IMR-4064 at one time, WLR primed.

Wanting to try some CFE-223 with 40 and 50 Ballistic Silvertips as well.

34.5 grs of Varget
CCI 200
63 gr Sierra SMP
Winchester case
2.4 OAL

Or

34 grs of Varget
CCI 200
64 gr Nosler Bonded Performance
Winchester case
2.35 OAL

Either is a deer slayer.