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Re: 22-250 suggestions
« Reply #45 on: November 22, 2016, 11:10:06 AM »
Thanks for the input
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Re: 22-250 suggestions
« Reply #46 on: November 23, 2016, 10:45:17 AM »
New Remington Model 7 SS in .223. Have it re-chambered to .223 AI. Just got one in .243 for my son this year and plan to pick up a .223 this winter just so I don't find myself taking his.

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Re: 22-250 suggestions
« Reply #47 on: November 23, 2016, 11:02:04 AM »
If money wasn't an object, I would totally have a custom rifle done. Unfortunately that's not the case. I don't need anything fancy, I want a gun that's fun to shoot, that can reach out a ways, and doesn't break the bank. From the research I've done, the 22-250 will satisfy that requirement. I can't own every caliber on the planet, so I have to find a happy medium somewhere, and I feel like that's the one. Thanks for the input though, I've learned a lot through this discussion.
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Re: 22-250 suggestions
« Reply #48 on: November 23, 2016, 11:11:52 AM »
If money wasn't an object, I would totally have a custom rifle done. Unfortunately that's not the case. I don't need anything fancy, I want a gun that's fun to shoot, that can reach out a ways, and doesn't break the bank. From the research I've done, the 22-250 will satisfy that requirement. I can't own every caliber on the planet, so I have to find a happy medium somewhere, and I feel like that's the one. Thanks for the input though, I've learned a lot through this discussion.

Sounds to me as though you have done a great job of assessing what your needs are. 

I have four plus decades experience shooting the 22-250 and that also by default means that I have forty years experience and then some of people trying to educate me on why something else is better. 

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Re: 22-250 suggestions
« Reply #49 on: November 23, 2016, 11:15:27 AM »
If money wasn't an object, I would totally have a custom rifle done. Unfortunately that's not the case. I don't need anything fancy, I want a gun that's fun to shoot, that can reach out a ways, and doesn't break the bank. From the research I've done, the 22-250 will satisfy that requirement. I can't own every caliber on the planet, so I have to find a happy medium somewhere, and I feel like that's the one. Thanks for the input though, I've learned a lot through this discussion.

Sounds to me as though you have done a great job of assessing what your needs are. 

I have four plus decades experience shooting the 22-250 and that also by default means that I have forty years experience and then some of people trying to educate me on why something else is better.

 :chuckle:  The grass is always greener right?

Don't get me wrong, I love tinkering with guns as much as the next guy, but I don't have the time or the money to play with them all. Maybe one day I'll own some land, and have more free time and a bunch of money and I can bring home fancy calibers to shoot at pine cones with. Until then, I'll have to make due.
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Re: 22-250 suggestions
« Reply #50 on: November 23, 2016, 11:27:13 AM »


I have four plus decades experience shooting the 22-250 and that also by default means that I have forty years experience and then some of people trying to educate me on why something else is better.
Jeez, you must have started out loading for it with black powder that long ago!

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Re: 22-250 suggestions
« Reply #51 on: November 23, 2016, 11:29:38 AM »


I have four plus decades experience shooting the 22-250 and that also by default means that I have forty years experience and then some of people trying to educate me on why something else is better.
Jeez, you must have started out loading for it with black powder that long ago!

Tain't funny McGee! 

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Re: 22-250 suggestions
« Reply #52 on: November 23, 2016, 11:38:02 AM »


I have four plus decades experience shooting the 22-250 and that also by default means that I have forty years experience and then some of people trying to educate me on why something else is better.
Jeez, you must have started out loading for it with black powder that long ago!

Tain't funny McGee!

Kind of is, a little.   :chuckle:
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Re: 22-250 suggestions
« Reply #53 on: November 23, 2016, 01:10:39 PM »


I have four plus decades experience shooting the 22-250 and that also by default means that I have forty years experience and then some of people trying to educate me on why something else is better.
Jeez, you must have started out loading for it with black powder that long ago!

Tain't funny McGee!
How about,

Shooting varmints back then had have been like Quigley and the bucket! It must have been a real game changer for you when scopes started coming out.

Any better?

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Re: 22-250 suggestions
« Reply #54 on: November 23, 2016, 01:14:53 PM »


I have four plus decades experience shooting the 22-250 and that also by default means that I have forty years experience and then some of people trying to educate me on why something else is better.
Jeez, you must have started out loading for it with black powder that long ago!

Tain't funny McGee!
How about,

Shooting varmints back then had have been like Quigley and the bucket! It must have been a real game changer for you when scopes started coming out.

Any better?

What really made a difference is when Henry Ford finally made a car for the masses and I no longer had to walk ten miles (both ways) through snow drifts up past my knees just to get to and from home to the gun club to sight in. 
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Re: 22-250 suggestions
« Reply #55 on: November 23, 2016, 01:51:25 PM »
Just thought id mention something.  Several posts are suggesting .204 or .22mag.  Theyre not cougar legal.  .22-250 is.  Something to consider.

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Re: 22-250 suggestions
« Reply #56 on: November 23, 2016, 02:08:48 PM »


What really made a difference is when Henry Ford finally made a car for the masses and I no longer had to walk ten miles (both ways) through snow drifts up past my knees just to get to and from home to the gun club to sight in.
That line is so old that I'm not surprised you used it, but that you messed it up. :o

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Re: 22-250 suggestions
« Reply #57 on: November 23, 2016, 02:15:30 PM »


What really made a difference is when Henry Ford finally made a car for the masses and I no longer had to walk ten miles (both ways) through snow drifts up past my knees just to get to and from home to the gun club to sight in.
That line is so old that I'm not surprised you used it, but that you messed it up. :o
It's probably changed a few times since he first started using it, I think wagons once had that honor.

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Re: 22-250 suggestions
« Reply #58 on: November 23, 2016, 02:36:37 PM »
Just thought id mention something.  Several posts are suggesting .204 or .22mag.  Theyre not cougar legal.  .22-250 is.  Something to consider.
So is a 22 hornet but it's no where near the 22-250 in performance.

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Re: 22-250 suggestions
« Reply #59 on: November 23, 2016, 02:44:24 PM »


What really made a difference is when Henry Ford finally made a car for the masses and I no longer had to walk ten miles (both ways) through snow drifts up past my knees just to get to and from home to the gun club to sight in.
That line is so old that I'm not surprised you used it, but that you messed it up. :o
It's probably changed a few times since he first started using it, I think wagons once had that honor.
JD is so old that when he said he was going to jump in the Studebaker to go to town he still had to hitch the horses up to it first! :chuckle:

 


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