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who's using 22-250 for deer?
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<blockquote data-quote="Dr. Tad Hussein Winslow" data-source="post: 835652" data-attributes="member: 7123"><p>By many accounts, .22-250 (or .220 swift) is a bit of a perplexing caliber for deer, in that 90% of the time, it works like the hammer of thor on either neck shots or broadside/quartering away vitals shots.</p><p></p><p>The problem comes on a quartering toward (shoulder meat), or even a (high) shoulder blade shot, where I've heard people report it blows up and doesn't penetrate. So it either works fantastically or not at all and results in a dead deer never found, or worse, wounds the animal.</p><p></p><p>So for ME, I think the .223 rem is around 10 times a better choice for deer than .22-250, because it will work just about as well on neck or standard vitals shots like the .22-250, but with the heavier bullets (such as a 64 gr power point for example), used with the higher twist rate of the .223, coupled with a slightly lower velocity (a good thing in this case), it's ALSO gonna work just fine on those occasions where you have to punch through bone, including even a brain shot.</p><p></p><p>Now if you limit your shots to neck, broadside-low or quartering-away low, then you're golden with .22-250, seems to me, and it's arguably the perfect deer caliber. Certainly makes for easy range sessions. <img src="/images/smilies/smile.png" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" data-shortname=":)" /></p><p></p><p>Just M.O.</p><p></p><p>And yeah, you *could* load a 55 or heavier grainer in a .22 hornet, .218 bee or similar, but (a) you're gonna have to limit your powder charge so that the bullet doesn't run up on the lands, and (b) it may not shoot well with the 1 in 14" and similar twists of those rifles. .223 Rem or .222 Rem are not only the *practical* minimums in a .22 caliber to get you to 55+ grains, but they also happen to be pretty darned good choices, AFAIAC - <strong>with the right bullet, that is.</strong> But personally, I think a .22-250 is *generally* a poor choice, since you're not ready for ANY shot that presents itself.</p><p></p><p>Just a sidebar....though not a .22 cal, it IS a very small case capacity round : the second largest racked buck ever taken (in the record books), and for many years, the #1 buck taken with a gun, was harvested with a .25-20. Granted though, it took two shots and a lot of tracking.</p><p></p><p></p><p><a href="http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&rls=com.microsoft:en-us:IE-SearchBox&rlz=1I7DVXA&q=.25+-+20+winchester&um=1&ie=UTF-8&ei=BSzCSrOVEIOoswOmsMXQAg&sa=X&oi=image_result_group&ct=title&resnum=4" target="_blank">http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&rls=com.microsoft:en-us:IE-SearchBox&rlz=1I7DVXA&q=.25+-+20+winchester&um=1&ie=UTF-8&ei=BSzCSrOVEIOoswOmsMXQAg&sa=X&oi=image_result_group&ct=title&resnum=4</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Dr. Tad Hussein Winslow, post: 835652, member: 7123"] By many accounts, .22-250 (or .220 swift) is a bit of a perplexing caliber for deer, in that 90% of the time, it works like the hammer of thor on either neck shots or broadside/quartering away vitals shots. The problem comes on a quartering toward (shoulder meat), or even a (high) shoulder blade shot, where I've heard people report it blows up and doesn't penetrate. So it either works fantastically or not at all and results in a dead deer never found, or worse, wounds the animal. So for ME, I think the .223 rem is around 10 times a better choice for deer than .22-250, because it will work just about as well on neck or standard vitals shots like the .22-250, but with the heavier bullets (such as a 64 gr power point for example), used with the higher twist rate of the .223, coupled with a slightly lower velocity (a good thing in this case), it's ALSO gonna work just fine on those occasions where you have to punch through bone, including even a brain shot. Now if you limit your shots to neck, broadside-low or quartering-away low, then you're golden with .22-250, seems to me, and it's arguably the perfect deer caliber. Certainly makes for easy range sessions. :) Just M.O. And yeah, you *could* load a 55 or heavier grainer in a .22 hornet, .218 bee or similar, but (a) you're gonna have to limit your powder charge so that the bullet doesn't run up on the lands, and (b) it may not shoot well with the 1 in 14" and similar twists of those rifles. .223 Rem or .222 Rem are not only the *practical* minimums in a .22 caliber to get you to 55+ grains, but they also happen to be pretty darned good choices, AFAIAC - [B]with the right bullet, that is.[/B] But personally, I think a .22-250 is *generally* a poor choice, since you're not ready for ANY shot that presents itself. Just a sidebar....though not a .22 cal, it IS a very small case capacity round : the second largest racked buck ever taken (in the record books), and for many years, the #1 buck taken with a gun, was harvested with a .25-20. Granted though, it took two shots and a lot of tracking. [url]http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&rls=com.microsoft:en-us:IE-SearchBox&rlz=1I7DVXA&q=.25+-+20+winchester&um=1&ie=UTF-8&ei=BSzCSrOVEIOoswOmsMXQAg&sa=X&oi=image_result_group&ct=title&resnum=4[/url] [/QUOTE]
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