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A friend wants me to load for a 40x to be used for P dogs.

I have 748, 4895 ,Acc 2230 on hand.

I don't know the twist in the 40x but he is thinking 50 gr bullets. I have hornady and sierra on hand .

34-35 gr. 4895!!!

I wore out my first .22-250, a Ruger 77 tanger varminter, with 50 grain Hornady SX bullets and 40 grains of H380 in WW brass with federal 210 primers.

My last .22-250 was very fussy. I finally found accuracy with too much Varget under 50 grain SX or 50 grain TNT bullets, it didn't care which. Think the load was 37.5 grains. Primers (Fed 210 match) were **flat**. Case (WW) life was fine. Squirrel life was ... limited. It was weird to have a rifle that'd put that load around 0.2 inches for 5 shots of either bullet and yet I never found but one other load that shot under 2 MOA.

Tom

CFE 223 in Lapua brass with a 50 gr Ballistic Tip or Blitz King. IMR 4064 has done well too.

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39.5 grains of Varget and the 40 grain VMax bullet shoot like a laser out to 300 yards, and will give a coyote a dirt nap that it won’t wake up from.

I use 36.0 grains of Benchmark,Fed 210 Match primer and 50 grain Sierra BlitzKing. That load is scooting along at 3851 fps from a 26" barrel.

one hell of a load, 39.5 grains of varget and 40 gr nosler BT--many many dead coyotes.

4895 of the 3 listed.

Thanks for the input.

34.7 grains of IMR4320 is my go to load behind a 55gr Varmegeddon. 1/2 MOA out to 500 yds.

Yep.

But they don't work in a 7mm-08 !

My 22-250 pdog load has long been 34.5 H4895 and 55BT. Averaged under 3/8” for 5 shots when that barrel was much younger. Throat is about gone and it’s about to get a new hart barrel. My brother has always used 55 vmax and Varget. The vmax seemed to be a bit more destructive but both make a real mess of the prairie rats. I might try the 53 vmax or nosler when I get a new barrel. I’ve got about 800-1000 55 BT’s left so I’ll probably use those up and probably be ready for a new tube.
Good luck, Ben.

Been playing with a Stevens 200 in 22..250 for the last two months...

this one's Barrel really seems to LOVE 33.5 grans of Benchmark and 50 grain V Maxes.....

one hole groups at 100 yds with boring regularity....

Unusual combo. Got some Horn SBR TAP surplus bullets from Midway (not a cataloged item). They said 80 gr., but they actually weighed 75 gr. I had to ID them, as they didn't say what they were. https://www.hornadyle.com/rifle-ammunition/75-gr-tap-sbr#

In my 8 twist Shilen Mohawk I shot this group. Have not killed anything, yet. Not sure how a SBR tactical bullet will work at .22-250 speeds. Should be interesting.

DF

+1

Sierra 55g lead tip blitz

Ipopum: I currently own and load for 14 (fourteen!) long heavy barrel Rifles in caliber 22-250 Remington.
Including one factory Remington 40X-B with the 27 1/4" heavy stainless barrel.
Of the powders you listed I would suggest the 4895 and the 50 grain bullets.
I also am a GREAT admirer of the Sierra 50 and 55 grain Blitz bullets for Colony Varmints (not the BlitzKings just the Blitz) they are cheaper, very accurate and devastating on Varmints from a 22-250 and a 220 Swift.
Long live the 22-250 Remington!
Hold into the wind
VarmintGuy

Varget, 55gr VMax, CCI 200, WW cases.

39.0 H414 with 55 gr Hornady SP.

GreggH

AA2700 is very low on the heat index, works fantastic with 55g bullets, in spades. Longest barrel life with this powder of any that I shot p. dogs or grounds squirrels with...hot and heavy shooting. Varget, and R#15 are all very accurate and eat barrels along with IMR 4064.

H -4895 and a 62 Bear Claw or a 62 Barnes for pigs.

same powder as H 414 or Win 760... at least I am told by several sources...

Seafire, we are aware that lot numbers of powder different.


In the lot# that I have, aa2700 looks like perfect round balls, where 760 and 414 look like flattened spheres.

Grabbed my old school varmint rifle in 22-250 and went to the shop to load a pile of twice fired brass I've had in a box all year, old school slow twist heavy stainless syn 700 Remington with 26 inch barrel wearing an even older 6.5-20x40 AO matte Leupold in lapped Talley LW's, 'Smith has the stock trigger slicked up in the ounces.

WW brass [twice fired, Redding neck sized] inside chamfer with VLD tool.
55gr NBT
39.5gr CFE-223
WLR primer
COL 2.350"
COL 2.475"
VEL 3777 @2.350"
VEL 3851 @2.475"

The short load shot fine at around a half inch in light winds, the longer load [5 thou off] went into less than a quarter in a nice little triangle 3 shot group.

Not a lot of hoopla for these older slow twist rifles, but katy best bar the doors for any crows/coyotes/bobcats etc, within 400 long yards.

Rem 700 1-14 22-250 55 gr Speer IMR 4895 34.5 GR 5@ .27" at 100 yards. Sold rifle It would keyhole 60 gr Noslers at 10 yards sure shot the light bullets well.

Hard to say regarding twist with a 40X. Most .22-250s, especially in older days, were 1-14", but the 40X could be ordered with a variety of twists.

I wore out a Ruger 77 "tanger" varmint rifle shooting 50 grain Hornady SXes and 40 grains of H380. I wore out a Remington 700 LVSF shooting about a 50/50 mix of 50 grain SXes and 50 grain TNTs, both over 37.5 grains of Varget. All above were with WW brass and Fed 210M primers. The varget load was likely excessive but it is where the accuracy was. Drop a half grain and the gun went from wildly sub MOA (I shot a lot of groups in the low-mid .2s for 5 shots) to well over 2 MOA. So that's what I shot and critters **died**.

sounds more like H 380 then, doesn't it...

I've been shooting 220 Swift and 22-250 for years. The go to powder for me is IMR-4064.

Lot of good info thanks everyone for the info. I just picked up a 22-250 and started reloading so lot of good info

lt was all the same stuff when Explosia made it, though now some production has been moved back to the US, l would look again at working up loads

You have been here for more than 14 years and this is your first post ???????? we would have all been so lucky if bs1917kchunter and lil Stick would have taken the same approach

llt's because l lost my old log-in access and managed to get it back once the old one had slipped off the edge so l could re-register as my old user name

14 years is a long time to wander in the wilderness..... l did enjoy some of it though....

Thanks for the warm welcome back!!