Home Forums Reloading Varmint Rifles Reduced 22-250 loads

I played around with my 22-250 in search of the perfect egg shoot rifle and chicken koop varmint eradicator. I fooled around with IMR 4227 and some 45 gr. .223 Speer semi-spitzer Hornet bullets. After working up from 14.0 grains to 16.0 grains I found a load that will consistently splatter eggs at the 150 yard range barring my discrepencies. All charges with IMR 4227 shot very well but the 16.0 gr. charge obturated the case best. So far on the last egg shoot I hit 7 of 8 in a row winning $140. and losing $20. I can't belive I missed the 8th egg! And a couple of weeks ago I was losing a hen every couple of days so I got up at daylight a couple days in a row and low and behold there's a coyote heading for the treeline with one of my hens. As it slowed to get thru my back fence, almost exactly 150 yards away I hit it in the chest and it dropped. I only had one round so I went back inside to get another and when I came back a coyote was heading toward the downed coyote from the treeline. about 20 yards from my fence she stopped to look at her running mate laying there with my chicken and my second shot hit this one in the chest also sending her spinning in a circle and then down. No exit on the second coyote as she was mostly facing me but the other coyote had a 1 inch exit hole on the far side. Anyone able to give me a velocity estimate on my load of 16.0 grs. of IMR 4227 and the 45 gr. Hornet bullet out of a 24 inch barrel?

My old Dupont load data says a 50 gr. bullet does 3140 fps. with 21.5 grs. Maybe 2400 fps. ?
My Loadbook lists 14 grs. of IMR 4227 with a 41 gr. cast bullet at 2151 fps. with a maximum of 20 grs. at 2945 fps. E

That is probably right. If I weren't planning a trip to Wyoming to hunt coyotes out in the wide open I would take this load. It would be fine for prairie dogs but so will my coyote load. Better get on the press.

Reduce loads for a 22-250 its called a .222.

Exactly, still one of the best yote and accuracy rounds out there for the 22's.

Swifty

good idea for around the barnyard.