I posted here a while back, like last spring, asking for load information for the 70gr. TSX for my 22-250. Well I pretty much had to go at it alone and just started with what worked with the 75gr. Amax. Load was 35.6gr. H4350 under the 70gr. TSX averaging around 3250fps. It shoots well under an inch and does a pretty impressive job on whitetails. Doe was at about 85yds. Shot thru both shoulders, taking the top of the heart and a couple ribs to boot. She was dead in her tracks. The rifle was built by Roger Ferrell in Fayetteville, GA. A couple pics for ya'll.







Shot entered on her right, caliber size hole. Exit was about the size of a nickel or quarter.

David

Textbook .224 Barnes performance on Deer sized animals.
Your deer was obviously un-educated and computer illiterate, if that deer could read internet forums it would know that 22/250's are not deer rifles and would never have died so easy!
Good luck and keep shooting.

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Your deer was obviously un-educated and computer illiterate, if that deer could read internet forums it would know that 22/250's are not deer rifles and would never have died so easy!

Two weeks ago, I was in South Texas with a couple of friends on our first "exotic hunt."

Both of my friends used the .22-250 that one of them brought. They were shooting factory Hornady 53 gr soft nose bullets.

Five shots = 3 blackbuck, 1 scimitar horned oryx, and 1 addax. Shots were 50 to 100 yds, farthest any animal went after the shot was about 20 yds.

The guy that owns the .22-250 also used it this year to kill a 13" pronghorn, 4 pt mule deer, and 5 pt elk, each with one shot with those same Hornady bullets. The elk dropped in his tracks.

Bullet placement is more important than bullet diameter.

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Bullet placement is more important than bullet diameter.

No truer words have ever been spoken. That Barnes though is just a tough bullet. It penetrates through bone without a hitch. I'd be more confident with it than that 53gr. Hornady, but unfortunately, unless it's a custom barrel, few folks can stabilize the Barnes bullets with a factory 1-14" barrel. Savage is starting to come around, but the others don't seem to get it.

David

P.S. Elk I'm not so sure about. Blackbuck, mulie, pronghorn should be now sweat with good placement.

[QUOTE]Originally posted by buffybr:


The guy that owns the .22-250 also used it this year to kill a 13" pronghorn, 4 pt mule deer, and 5 pt elk, each with one shot with those same Hornady bullets. The elk dropped in his tracks.
Sorry but anyone who hunts elk with a 22-250 just ain't playing with a full deck!!! JMHO roger

Roger ; SSSHHHHHH or it will all get stirred back up again ... .......
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. It is unreasonable for me to want to rebarrel a rifle to shoot just 1 bullet .. But I may need to do just that ...............
. What twist is your 22/250 ??

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Originally posted by buffybr:


The guy that owns the .22-250 also used it this year to kill a 13" pronghorn, 4 pt mule deer, and 5 pt elk, each with one shot with those same Hornady bullets. The elk dropped in his tracks.

Sorry but anyone who hunts elk with a 22-250 just ain't playing with a full deck!!! JMHO roger

Agreed.

gumboot, it's an 8 twist Krieger.

Let me say this. I didn't build this rifle to hunt big game with. I built it so that I could shoot 75gr. Amax bullets for coyotes, bobcats, etc... Also had in mind to take it to Africa on a plains game hunt to take some of the pigmy antelope like duiker and klipspringer for example. Smaller holes in those little guys is a big plus for taxidermy.

I would hunt mulies with this rifle if I had to, but I don't. Honestly, the doe was a freezer meat/bullet test take. She's the first deer I've taken this year and likely the last. This weekend I'll be draggin out my M77 Bob to handle the heavy work, if you can call Alabama whitetails that.

Let's not get all worked up. I'd not advocate elk hunting with a .224 caliber anything. Personally that really starts off at .284" bullets, but I'd do it with my Bob and not sweat it.

David

Hey guys, I'm not advocating hunting elk with a .224 either. I'm just reporting the facts, as they say, and pointing out that you don't need at least a .338 super magnum to kill elk.

I've known that guy for over 30 years, he's a helluva shot with rifle and shotgun. I know he's shot more than that elk with his .22-250, I'd guess at least a half dozen, also two buffalo, and he shoots a black bear with it almost every year.

Also, the Eskimo guide that I had on an arctic hunt a few years ago told me that he killed a Polar bear with 2 shots with his .223.

Like I said, it's all about shot placement, which is not running away in the butt.