I just got a Remington 700 22-250 & started working up a load for it to date best 3 shot 100yd group is .380 & most are .5 & under. My first 200yd 5 shot group was .9 and 4 of them were under .5. This is a stock gun with factory trigger adjusted by me. If any one is interested my load is Reloader 15 35.7gr 50gr Serria varminter Winchester case & fed primer col is 2.360.

1/2" at 100 yards, and less would be great.

I sight in at 200 yards and shoot for 1" or less is fine with me.

if i can get to the 1/2 inch mark at 100 yards, that is plenty good for me.

I like them under .5 at 100 but in all truthfullness .750 well kill a lot of varmints out to 500 yards.

This will do

To tell the truth I am more about picking a load that is easy to load more than I am about speed and group. Don't get me wrong they are important but if I find a bullet/powder combo that isn't picky down to the grain or temp. then that is the one I go with. For example I have been shooting W760 out of my 22-250 with the 60g v-max's and it doesn't really care if it has 38 or 40 grains of powder, they all shoot in a 1.5/2" hole @200yards with 5 shot groups in 1/2 grain incraments. When I load I don't sit down and load 20 I do groups of 100 so speed is worh something to me and this way I don't have to weigh each charge just set it and keep it full of powder.

I kinda go along with Lucky. The 22-250 isn't very picky about what powder you use nor what bullet. (I sometimes use up partial cans of powder that didn't work out in the intended cartridge in my 22-250) As a p dog shooter, I use h380 and h414 as my powder as it meters so finely and I can really crank out the rounds on my single stage press. Using Hornady bulk bullets and a little luck, I can shoot 5 rounds into one raggedy hole at 100yds. Dime sized groups often and nickel sized groups all the time.

It is astounding the accuracy we take for granted these days. I have a quote around here somewhere from a shooting magazine, published in the 1950s. It said, "Any factory rifle that delivers groups less than two inches at 100 yards is a jewel to be treasured." Imagine that.

At the time those words were written, a consistent 1/2" shooter would keep you in the top ten at most benchrest shoots!

Today, you might make second last with 1/2" at 200 yards!

I tend to use "minute of critter" as my yardstick. I want my gun to deliver groups of half the vital zone of the critter being hunted, at the range I expect to kill them. For a marmot-sized critter with a 4" kill zone, that means a 2" group at the range I expect to kill them - be that 100 yards or 400. And so on. Prairie dog rifles need much more accuracy than coyote guns or baboon guns.
To paraphrase the recent credit card ads, "What's in YOUR crosshairs?"

It sounds to me like your Remington 22-250 is doing just fine. I am not a bit surprised at the bullet that shoots so well. I found the 50 grain Sierra to shoot quite well in most 22-250 rifles.

Like most of the others who posted here, I would like five shot groups at 100 yards that will go inside a half inch. I have been a little aggravated with the latest 22-250 that I had built recently. It just won't shoot the 50 grain Sierra much inside an inch. But, I shot groups the other day with both 40 and 50 grain Nosler Ballistic Tips that a dime will cover quite easily.

On the other hand, my dad's latest 22-250 built by the same gunsmith (and they both have Hart barrels) shoots that good old 50 Sierra into little tiny groups.

By the way, that 50 grain Sierra vaporizes small varmints as well as any other bullet and is a hell of a coyote pill.

Great shooting, go find some varmints to shoot.

R F

My deer guns have to shoot .500 my varmint rigs .250 So far only one of my rifles did not shoot to that standart.

Depends on what varmits you are hunting. Coyotes are big targets. I like to have a under .5 moa varmit gun, all of mine will do that, as will most of my big game rifles.

It seems that my rifles just are not as good as some of the other members here. For someone to have all their deer rifles at 1/2 MOA and varmint rifles at 1/4 MOA is fantastic and I applaud you.

I do like my rifles to stay sighted in as well as possible and I don't like to miss. I do miss sometimes however. I do the best that I can do.

I makes wonder how I won all those high average awards.

Savage99, I applaud you as you have said you do the best that you can do!! And if a man does the best that he can do then that's all that should ever be asked! I know that there are some of us accuracy freaks that tend to take the limits to the absurd! But when it gets right down to it,"MOW" (minute of whitetail) serves some people just fine and then there are those who want "MOA" and I'll be willing to bet that most of the "MOA" guns we read about on here won't shoot 6" at600 yards!!! That's MOA guys!! GHD PS. SOme of the 1/4 MOA @100 yard guns here won't shoot 6 inches at 600 yards! Probably very damn few will!

1/4"at100 yds. 35.5 gr. IMR4895, 53gr. Hornady HP match, cci 200, rem cases, devastating on squirrels out to 300 yds.
Shrubber

Really My deer hunting rifles are bench rest made with lighter barrel and a stiffer trigger pull Aluminum pillar bedded. Custom full length bushing dies made and inline seater used. All this is absolutely not necessary for big game hunting. I guess I am little nuts on accuracy. Most of the time you are shooting off hand so you will not see the benefit. But when you start shooting deer past 500 yards everything helps.

[ 03-06-2003, 09:55: Message edited by: Frank ]

Factory guns that shoot 1/2 inch at 100yrds thats good enough for me, time to go and hunt the dog.The Dog Hunter.