New Favorite Rifle

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03-23-2019, 12:40 PM
Lclevenger

New Favorite Rifle

I have been working on some new loads for Savage 11 22-250 Rem. I have a 6-18 scope on the rifle. I have been trying to find a decent bullet to shoot for this rifle for the last couple months. I have tried 10 different bullets and a few different powders. I think I found a good setup and in California it had to be lead free. This is a Hornady NTX 35 Gr lead free. I tried it with different seating depths and I hope I found a good round. This is my best group to date on any rifle.

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03-23-2019, 01:28 PM
Robinhood

time to move it on out to 300!
03-23-2019, 02:01 PM
CFJunkie

That's great shooting Lclevenger!
Getting a group that small with a light 35 grain bullet outdoors is a real achievement.
On the east coast, my .22-250s seem to shoot well with 40 gr Nosler BTs and 52/53 gr SMKs and 52 gr Berger bullets, but they are all lead core.
I think I have only tried lead free bullets in my .30-30 (Hornady 140 gr GTXs).
How hard is it to find lead free bullets in Calif. in .224?
03-23-2019, 03:42 PM
Jester560

Nice shooting. Now to stretch its legs a bit.

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03-23-2019, 10:22 PM
Newtosavage

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Originally Posted by Jester560

Nice shooting. Now to stretch its legs a bit.

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03-23-2019, 10:38 PM
Lclevenger

Cfjunkie they are pretty popular now it seems every bullet maker has a few options for bullet weight. Barnes is real big out here.
At the local range we can only shoot groups at 100 yards then it’s hitting steel to 550.

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03-23-2019, 10:39 PM
Lclevenger

Also the Sig brass is very consistent weight and seems to be holding up very well. Probably better weight than my Norma brass for 243.

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