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I am trying to work up a load for my 22-250. It is a remington 700 VS with a 26" heavy barrel. I am wanting to shoot a 55 grain bullet. I have been shooting federal premium 55 grain boat tail hollow points. Let me know what works in your gun.


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I have a M700 VLS 22-250 and shoot the following....
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I had try different powders to get the 55 gr BT to shoot-
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Are you seating the bullet to the lands?


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What powder do you have on hand? The 22-250 must be the easiest cartridge to get a good shooting load for.


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I use H380 in my 22-250 because it flows so well I can load right from the powder measure and only check every 10th weight. And for Pdog shooting, I shoot the cheapest bulk 55gr bullets I can find. Usually Hornadys or CoreLokts. If I want to get fancy, I shoot 53gr Sierra MKs.
I shoot a 700VS.


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Check this site for some great loads:

http://www.centerfirecentral.com/viewer.html

I have had many, many Rem Varmints in 22/250.

I usually started with Win 760 first because of the speed that is attainable with this powder with extreme accuracy. I would start with 39.0g of 760 and go up (55g).

IMR 4064 and 4895 both produced excellent accuracy(55 & 50g)

H380 was much slower in my rifle than what the book said, very accurate however.

I got 3/4" accuracy with Varget...nothing to write home about.

The Nosler manual also has some great "Most Accurate Loads" with each powder that can be spot on or just barely off.

Be aware of the fact that some of the poly tip bullets in 55g will not shoot bug holes due to their length. I had much better luck getting small groups in my Remington 700's in 22/250's with the 50g Bullets. Sierra Blitz king in particular is a long bullet, and some barrels don't like the 55g Nosler, while the same barrel will love the 50g Counter parts.

When I am talking super accurate, I am referring to 3/8" groups, but if a rifle will shoot 1" groups, you are good to go on coyotes which all the bullets will do.

Good luck!

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I've seen this load work in more than one Remington Varmint rifle. Pretty typical if I do my part.

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Ranchhand02: I see you are from Oklahoma and thus you may want this Rifle/bullet to use on Coyotes?
One of my favorite 22-250 Varminters use this wonderful bullet (especially wonderful for Coyotes Hunting!) - mind you its ONLY 52 grains heavy, but is sensational accuracy wise, lethality wise (on all manner of Varmints including Coyotes) and is relatively inexpensive.
Its the Speer 52 grain hollow-point FLAT BASE.
Be sure to try the FLAT BASE as they make another 52 grainer and that one is a boat-tail!
Not so good for pelts this one - its more of a "match" bullet.
My Remington 700 VLSS in 22-250 (with heavy 26" stainlesss steel barrel & action) uses this Speer 52 grain H.P./F.B., Federal 210 Match primers, Federal brass and IMR 4064 powder!
I have a Leupold 6.5x20 variable scope on this Rifle.
The last 3 trips to the range for sight-in verification with this load gave groups (5 shots at 100 yards) measuring .448", .271" & .205"!
Each of these groups was fired in a different year!
If Coyotes and saving pelts is on your agenda be sure to give this load a try!
Best of luck with your load development.
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I would second the motion that the 52 gr. HP Flat Base Speer is "fur freindly" and accurate....

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Supercrewd: In the world of Varmint reloading I tend to disagree with your contention about the 22-250 Remington being the easiest cartridge to "get a good shooting load for".
I contend the 222 Remington and the 204 Ruger are definitely easier to obtain impressive accuracy with.
Don't get me wrong I love the accuracy from my various 22-250's but the 222 and the 204 are more inherently accurate in my opinion.
Long live the 22-250 Remington!
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"Let me know what works in your gun."

Well, if you used my load, you'd be loading for my rifle. How could that help?

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Thanks for the help. I live in oklahoma and i am shooting coyotes. I do not care about ruining the pelts. I have a wide range of powders on hand. I have around 40 different powders right now.


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I also second the 52 gr. Speer HP as a great one in the 22/250

Although you mention 55 gr. bullets, IF you wish to try the lighter ones, the 40gr. Sierra HP is good; also the 60 gr. Sierra HP is a good heavy one as well.

IMR 4064 and IMR 4895 are great all around powders but not great for volume loading per powder measures..for measures, try Ramshot TAC and Big Game

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Originally Posted by boomtube
"Let me know what works in your gun."

Well, if you used my load, you'd be loading for my rifle. How could that help?


Some loads are nearly universal. For example, if your .270 won't shoot 59 gr. H4831 and 130 gr NBT's, then you have a gun problem. And, that's based on more than 30 .270's. I'm not a JOC fan, but, he was dead-on with this load.

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Somewhere around 36 gr. of Reloder 15 makes an excellent load. Varget is fine in the 22-250. Sorry, the exact amount would be for my rifles and of little use to you.


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Saw lots of good suggestions and agree with just about all of 'em. Some 22 centerfires prefer a flat based bullet versus a boat tail. I still say the 22-250 is one inherently accurate round. It was the first thing I started reloading over 20 years ago. I don't do much load testing of it anymore cause I'm busy on other projects. So now my go-to, do it all woodchuck load is 35.5 gr. of IMR-4320 with a 55 gr. Ballistic Tip. Only runs about 3570 fps out of my old Mod. 700 Varmint Special but it's so accurate and consistent that it's the only thing I've used for the last 4 or 5 years now. But there's a lot of other powders that work well with this cartridge. See what your rifle likes.

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I'am currently loading 35.5gr Varget under 55gr Sierra bthp out of my Savage 112 FVS single-shot[22-250, of course!] Out of the 26" barrel, this rifle is ACCURATE! FPS avgs. about 3650, so am well satisfied with this set-up. Just a side note: other powders that worked well with that bullet are IMR 4064 and IMR 4895. Just happen to be on the Varget bandwagon right now. Tom

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I have always found Varget to be the best powder with 50/55gr bullets in my Rem VSSFII with 26" barrel.
My recent load is 55gr BT and 36gr of Varget, it will shoot into the .2's when I do my part!

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I WORKED UP TO a load of 41g of H380 pushing a 40g NBT. Got an honest 4000 fps over my chrony and shoots 5 shot groups that you covered with a dime at 100yds. Haven't shot a coyote with that load yet but I'm sure it would ruin his day.


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I just came back from our underground range, shooting my Kimber Varmint .22-250 using Ramshot Big Game for the first time. I used 50 gr Ballistic Tips and 52 gr HPBT over 38.5 gr of Big Game with a WLR primer. I have to say that I was impressed. The HPBTs made half-inch 3 shot groups and the Ballistic Tips did the same as well as made a 5-shot group of about 5/8-inch outside edge to outside edge (not center to center.)

My previous load was 39 gr of H-414 with the 50 gr Ballistic Tip or a V-Max. I will probably switch to the Big Game load when I shoot up all the H-414 loads.


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