Re: 223 win short mag

Posted by jeffcat on March 06, 2007 at 11:02:34 from (216.107.36.81):

In Reply to: 223 win short mag posted by ironsales on March 06, 2007 at 07:08:18:

Simple answer is go with a 223. Not the short mag just plain old Remington 223. The 22-250 is a great load but do you need it? Buy Federal Match ammo and learn how to make real small groups on paper at the range. Take ONE shot and then wait about three minutes. This lets the barrel cool and then shoot ONE shot again. Remember it is the FIRST shot that gets that hog. The barrel will move the shot ever so little as it heats. That is why match and target guns have such big barrels. Real varment riffles are heavy barrel.

After you have shot High Power matches for many years you find out some stuff. The 223 has won many matches against 30-06 and 308 guns. This is over the coarse. That means 200,300 and 600 yards. The 22-250 is a great round and I do have one but... let me tell ya. The care and feeding of a HIGH quality gun will pay off in so many ways.
A costom barrel like a Krager will cost ya like $350.00 but the bullets will go through the same hole!!! The other thing is to load your own ammo. If you use the same procedures as hand loaders that shoot match you will have a "death ray" of a gun. I know this is way over kill for ground hogs but is is true. Federal makes a good "match" load ammo and will hold dime size groups at 150 yards. The same cases reloaded with Match bullets and hand thrown powder charges will make a ragged hole in the target. Machines just don't "Hand load". Depends how tight you want your groups.
The 223 is very good out to 150 yards with 55gr blittzer bullets and hogs just blow up! The 22-250 with the same bullet and hogs vaporize! These boxed loads you can buy at your local sports shop or order them. The simple thing is buy what you can and spend some time at the range! The 223 is cheap to feed and very easy to reload. The 22-250 is for long range stuff and you REALY need to know how to read the wind and conditions to do those fancy 400 yard shots. I have done it and it is real neat. Hope this didn't do a total over load on ya but you could go to a GOOD local gun club when they are having a DCM match and talk to the two guys that finished first and second. They will give you so much information your head will swim. Some of the REAL big boys shoot 1000 yard miatches and the winners have LESS than FOUR INCH GROUPS!!! I can't do that cause New Jersey only has a couple of 600 yard ranges. OK that is enough. Hope I helped. Jeffcat

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