Post by picklehead on Dec 12, 2015 17:23:06 GMT -5
One of my co-workers got a 22-250 in the Ruger American with his Christmas bonus. He shot it last week with factory 55 grain Remmy's and cried all damn week about it wouldn't hit a mountain if standing ten feet away. This became my project for the weekend and I ASK FOR IT.
First thing I did, was to clean the barrel spotless and ran JB bore paste threw it about 500 times last night. I set the trig to about 3.8 and that was low as I could get it and be safe. I set the action screws at 40 inch pounds and re did his handy work on the scope, rings and bases. The F face put a bull crap center point scope on it but the junk holds zero.
I have messed with 22-250's all my life and love them. I started to try some of the A2460 powder in it for giggles but didn't want to burn my stuff up for HIS rifle,, other than some bullets. I prepped his once fired cases and went with what I know,,,, other than using my IMR 4895 and Fed 210M primers. Varget is a damn good powder for it and have piles, so I just went straight to it.
It didn't take long to figure out that this rifle hates Boat tails for crazy accuracy and the thing will shoot very good. I didn't spend a lot of time on it, because he cant shoot worth a piss to start with and paying me with a 1/2 gal of Crown. That's good liquor but not my favorite.
Anyway, I loaded three differ boat tail bullets with the same charge and seated all to the same jump,,, going by the OGIVE off the lands and set them at .018 of jump. All was MOA at 100 and less. Hey, that's not me with a 22-250 for sure. I didn't want to use my Barnes but said, what they heck. I gritted my teeth and loaded three of them because the rifle doesn't care for the others or not the way it should.
I know this isn't the right way to work up loads and keep in mind,,, ITS NOT MINE. If it was mine, I would have played with three differ powders, seating depth, primers, headspace and the whole 9 yards. Id venture to say that I could have got it to burn holes with all bullets that I used and didn't even think about using my 55 grain pills or 52 A-MAX. The rifle will shot boat tails but I was on a quick mission.