What is your favorite accuracy powder for the 50 through 55 grain bullets out of the .22-250 Rem? Please comment especially if your powder is not listed. <BR><BR>Thanks for participating in my previous polls on bullets for the .22-250.H380VargetIMR4064IMR4895Other

VihtaVuori N140 is quite accurate and easy to meter. I use it in my groundhog carry gun; Browning 1885 with 28" barrel.

I like H-414

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Originally posted by Quarter Round:
What is your favorite accuracy powder for the 50 through 55 grain bullets out of the .22-250 Rem? Please comment especially if your powder is not listed.

Thanks for participating in my previous polls on bullets for the .22-250.

I voted for IMR 4895 and use it, however I also use many others and none were bad. I gusee that is why I like the .22-250.

W760, have 2, 22-250's and they both like this better than H380. I don't use stick powders and never have. I don't like the way they meter and I use Dillon Press, Progressive.

I just ran through a bunch of loads for my 22-250 last Saturday. The best load was with Benchmark and a 55 gr. Sierra HPBT. It was 1/4" for 3 shots at 100 yards. Two other loads looked very good at 3/8" using 36.5 gr. of Varget and 55 gr. bullets.
Don

The 22-250 does well with a number of propellants, and the fact that there's no clear winner in the poll proves that out as well.

One of my all-time favorites for the 22-250 is H4895. It does well with a wide range of bullet weights. It may not have the highest overall velocities, but across the board, its accuracy is generally second to none. And as for me, I'll take accuracy over another 50 or 75 fps any day...

My favorite is H380 just because it's easier to meter. Actually I have better accuracy with IMR4064 but it's less than .1" difference (average of about 50 groups) at 100 yards.

I'm with vapodog. I can't complain about H414--it does everything I want it to.

My .22-250 is a Savage 110 with a Hart 26" SS varmint barrel. It consistenly groups in the .2 and .3"s. There are many excellent powders available to us as reloaders, but I've always preferred IMR4064 over the others, which include IMR4895, Varget and others. Best wishes.

Cal - Montreal

I use IMR4064 it gives me a tighter group at

200 yds. I've used different powders before but

none gives me a tighter group at 200 yds.

At 100 yds it shoots a 1/2" 4 shoot group

I have always shot 41.0 grs of H-414 and a 55 grain win soft point.
witha bull barrel they were always under .75"

BTT
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seafire

Benchmark
Varget

Don

IMR 3031 with 55 Ballistic Tips has been looking very good so far.

There are many rifle powders that work well in the .22-250.
I prefer IMR4064, but that's merely my own preferrence. Others will differ. Best wishes.

Cal - Montreal

40 grains of Winchester 760 behind a 52 grain SPEER GOLD MATCH..........groundhogs worst night mare!! Only problem is if you didn't order 10,000 SPEER GOLD MATCH 52 grain HP back in about 1977, testing this load will be tough!!!! Other than that, 35.5-36.5 grains of VARGET and a host of the 50-55 grain available bullets ought to fit your gun!!! And if none of them don't fit, 35.3-36.0 grains of IMR 4320 ought to find a niche with the 52-55 grain pills!!!!....if no combos work....get another rifle!!! GHD

38.0 Gr. 748. 52 Grain Sierra Match HP. 2700 FPS 3/8 inch 5 rounds 100 yards.

33.0 Gr. IMR 3031 and the Sierra 53 Gr. Match. 1/2 inch at 100 yards.

748 works also works for me because someone GAVE me 16 LBs. of it!

Catmandu

imr 3031

iam still working up loads but so far in my m70 stealth imr 3031 is under .5"@100yds. followed closely by H380.

IMR4895 & IMR4064

I use a lot of milsurp IMR 7383 pulled down from the old .50 caliber spotter cartridges for aiming the 106mm recoilless rifle, just because I have a lot of it around that I bought cheaply. Works well in .22-250 under 55 or 60 grain bullets with velocities around the high end of the .223 range with a case full. It's a sooty powder and will build up a HARD carbon deposit in the throat if not cleaned frequently. That causes pressures to rise, accuracy to fall off, and is very difficult to remove if allowed to build up excessively.

RL-15 with Speer TNT 50g.

Other:

RL-15

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Now I am shooting Big Game with the 55 gr. SP's. It shoots .5" in my 22-250 and is very easy to meter.

Bob

Thanks for the new input men. Maybe I need to start a new poll for the Other 22-250 powders to see if trends and use have changed much.

H380 is my winner on 52gr Nosler

My favorite load for my Ruger #1 is a 55gr Calhoon over 38gr of H380 in a Win brass/CCI primer. It will hold .5" groups if I do my part.
MM

IMHO ! If you haven't tried DP 85 and Dp 86 in the 22-250 you are missing a good bet. The DP 86 is hard to find ,now, but the DP 85 can still be had for less than $70.00 for 8 lbs. In 3 different 22-250s they have proved superb. roger

R10x is working great for me

And the powder poll. Suspect some of the new powders would change this poll if a new one was started.

H380 is the classic powder for the 22-250 and that's whats I have primarily used, but I have a couple pounds of Benchmark and R15 I am looking forward to testing. Lou

yet again it seems i am the goofball.
i like aa 2700 in the 22-250,it fills the case,shoots well,and gives good velocity.
whats not to like?

The 22-250 will shoot well with a whole bunch of different powders. I got my best accuracy with H4895 by a small amount but since I shoot a lot of Pdogs, I use H380 since it pours thru my measure like water.

H-380 but the H-414 crowd is standing on firm ground in their recommendations.

I never found this post when I searched the forum for the venerable 22-250.
My vote goes for varget although H380, N140, N150 and another powder by Alliant with faster burn rates feature highly too. 36gns of Varget and a 55gn pill of whatever config suits my CZM550 now the barrels nicely "matured"!

Don't try the TAC from Ramshot. It will spoil you with tiny little groups.

In my limited loading experience I found that in my Sako with a 50gr bullet Win 748 gave me tighter groups than Varget did. FS