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Re: 22-250 suggestions
« Reply #60 on: November 23, 2016, 04:18:57 PM »
I'm playing with the idea of buying a 22-250 for a couple of reasons.

1. I want to practice shooting a lot more than I have in the past, without shooting my 7 mag or 7mm-08. The round count on my 7 mag is getting up there, and I'd rather preserve it since it shoots so well, and my 7mm-08 is a very lightweight mountain rifle that gets hot fast, so I can't really shoot all that much with it.

2. Varmints. Never spent much time after them, but I hunted a piece of private ground this fall that was absolutely loaded with them, and the farmer expressed some interest in someone coming in and thinning them a bit. I'm happy to oblige.

3. Smaller lighter - weight gun to pack around in the woods during the off season for the opportunistic coyote, grouse, etc...

I haven't established a budget for this yet, but I'd like to keep the gun under about $600. I can get deals on scopes, so that's not a factor.

Any standouts that you guys would suggest right off the bat?

I had a Browning BLR in 22-250 once. It isn't the tack driver like some bolts are but it was close. Fun to shoot a lever gun in varmint caliber and pack around while scouting or hiking. The caliber and BLR platform seem like an odd pairing but it worked for me for general rifle shooting and the occasional varmint session.

Rob

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Re: 22-250 suggestions
« Reply #61 on: November 23, 2016, 06:34:43 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:

Had to take the wheels off and soak them for a couple days to tighten 'em up first. 

 


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