AusVarmint

Hi everyone was at the local gun shop on Friday they had a new savage axis varmint 22-250 for $495 so it got the best of me and I put a pta in.I'm wanting to use this gun spotlighting what is the best weight projectile to use to shoot the flattest? I ran the berger ballistic calculator it said the 40g shoot flatter than 52 and 55 any input will be much appreciated thanks

Nice choice in caliber. 30 grain Berger’s if you can get them go pretty flat @4640 fps. BC isn’t too flash though.
What are you planning on shooting with it?

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Mostly foxes the odd rabbit in spring time

Jmc wrote:Hi everyone was at the local gun shop on Friday they had a new savage axis varmint 22-250 for $495 so it got the best of me and I put a pta in.I'm wanting to use this gun spotlighting what is the best weight projectile to use to shoot the flattest? I ran the berger ballistic calculator it said the 40g shoot flatter than 52 and 55 any input will be much appreciated thanks

May be worth checking with Sako 22-250. He is pretty good with his hand loads.


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A mate runs 40gn Nosler BT through his 250, he pushes the limit a bit with his loads, up just over 4100fps, they blow up foxes extremely well.

Jmc wrote:Mostly foxes the odd rabbit in spring time

It’s all a bit same same in the end. Sighting both in for a 280 yards zero 40’s doing 4200 and 50’s doing close to 3950 can both be sighted in to have a max PBR of 350 yards. Both drop at 400 by 4 (40’s) to 4.3 inches (50’s).
Really it’s close enough that your splitting hairs.
30’s will give you a PBR of 350 as well however have less variation in height above or below target on the way to 350. They will reach 350 and only be 1.4 inches low. Best part is at 400 they are only 3 inches low.
Under a spotlight all of them will let you hold centre of the head/chest and kill.


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Ok thank u how fast would the 30 be going?

Jmc wrote:Ok thank u how fast would the 30 be going?

4640 fps I think I had them going at.


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Trev assists with my reloading as I am very much a novice
I use 40.5 grain (over adi max load) of BM 8208 with 40 GR sierra Blitzkings (was 40GR Z max but couldn't find any more so changed to Blitzkings ,1/4 inch change in POI ) for 4250 FPS
Load development was 3 shots!!!
Sako 85 varmint had just been fitted with a Kicken trigger ,I resighted the rifle using factory rounds ,then Trev fired the first round of 3 handloads for me ...bug hole all touching at 100yds ...........called load development done

A word of warning thankfully it was a safe load as I had by mistake selected the highest load to be shot first....

Thank u all I have a heap of 2208 was hoping to use that any loads I should try?

I am sure you have looked at the online ADI reloading site, but in case you havent, a small sample of 2208 loads to whet your appetite:










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G'day jmc.

The load for my Rem700 HB .22-250 is a Win case, CCI LR primer, 37.5gn AR2208, 50gn vmax. Velocity is somewhere around 3,800fps. I have another load with BM2 which is very similar in velocity and accuracy.

Have also tried BM8208 and seem to get slightly higher velocity, but haven't really tested for accuracy yet.

Marcus

If you are using 50 or 55 gn pills go for your life with 2208 but you are hampering velocity big time if shooting 40 gn pills


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