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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!!