Hi looking for some advice planning to built the above rifle with 1-6 twist finished at 26 inch to shoot 90 vld for long range and varminting anyone built this before any info welcome

i built a 22/250ai on a browning hiwall with a 8" hart bbl. to shoot the 80 grain sierras. it does that very well. i don't thing you have to go to a 6". at the velocities the bullet will be moving thing a 7 or 8 will do just fine really does do a fine job at long ranges. only thing is i'm not sure why i did a 250ai rather than a swift.

Actually the body taper of the 22-250 is significant and if you're building on a bolt action, the rimless verson of the 22-250 (IMO) is preferable to the Swift case. I'd prefer the Swift case if building on a single shot.

However I'd would probably prefer the .224 middlestead over the AI verson of the 22-250 based on simply necking the .243 case to .224 because it requires a slow burning powder for the heavy .224 bullets and case capacity is paramount for best velocity.

I'm in the process of making my own wildcat based on the 6mm Rem case necked to take .224 bullets and shortened about .200 thou. I'm calling it the 22-6mm short.

If you want you could use my reamer and after using it I'm going to regrind it to make reloading dies. That said the Middlestead round is still preferable to my load if you're serious about the VLD bullets......I can tell you from experience that the heavier bullets are superior in the wind, but for that function, I'd preferr the 6mm bullets over the .224s.

Here's wishing you a fun project and a lot of dead varmints!

Vapodog,

Curious about why you are going through all that work, when a .22/.243 would have about the same capacity, and the .22/250 AI wouldn't have much less.

Clarence

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Originally posted by ClaMar:
Vapodog,

Curious about why you are going through all that work, when a .22/.243 would have about the same capacity, and the .22/250 AI wouldn't have much less.

Clarence

It's not actually that much work.....it's a custom reamer and and I can do the regrind myself.....I'm retired and the work is fun so I'm making one for me.

IMO the 22-243 has more capacity than I want.....the round I'm making has about 7 grains less and I don't really want a lot of over bore capacity. I'm not looking to shoot VLD bullets and I want the body taper of the 6mm Rem for better feeding.

Oh.....did I say it was rational?....nope but a guy has a right to be irrational occasionally.....

there is probably little rational about any wildcat - that's one of the things that make them fun

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there is probably little rational about any wildcat - that's one of the things that make them fun

I build them because they are FUN and I love to be DIFFERENT!