22 250 barrel wear

[kevwst]

Shootin a axis fatory 22 250. About how hany shots before accuracy starts to slide.

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[tric3imagery]

I shoot Savage and Tika 22-250 , Savage is 10 yrs old and Tikka is 18yrs, rebarreled my Savage, it didn't need it but it's now a 6br,with a Shelia barrel, Tika I keep saying it's shot out but there's many thousands of rounds down them, what I'm getting to; is keep shooting and taking care of your rifle, you'll know when it's shot out. Biggest bad on my part I let my Tika develop a huge carbon problem, which took many many hours to clean up, it's still prone to building up carbon.

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[wbm]

Depends on how much powder you burn and how fast you push the bullets.

[kevwst]

Doin 31.5 benchmark with 55 grain hornady soft point

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[kevwst]

Doin 31.5 benchmark with 55 grain hornady soft point

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[psharon97]

Barrel wear for a 22-250 will be determined most by how you shoot, IMO. If you let the barrel properly cool, IE you only shoot 4 to 5 rounds then let the barrel cool, you'll extend the barrel life.

[J.Baker]

Have a friend with an old sporterized Mauser in .22-250 that he's been using to shoot groundhogs with on his farm since the late 1970's and he typically kills anywhere from 100 to 200 groundhogs a year on his property. Figuring 200/yr for 40 years that's 8,000 rounds which most here will agree is about 2-3 lifetimes for a 22-250 barrel. I bore scoped his barrel late last summer and it has about 10" of freebore in it at this point - meaning the rifling is completely gone for the first 10" after the chamber. Didn't stop him from killing over 170 groundhogs with it last spring/summer with most shots being in the 150-300 yard range.

When I told him that his response was, "So what you're saying is I need a new rifle." I simply asked him if it still killed groundhogs and he said yes, to which I said, "as long as it's still kills what you point it at I'd keep using it."

No clue how that rifle would print on paper with that worn of a barrel, but clearly it still shoots minute-of-groundhog out to 300 yards no problem. All depends on what level of accuracy you need or expect I guess.

[kevwst]

Well this is now. Hope it stays

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[wbm]

When I told him that his response was, "So what you're saying is I need a new rifle." I simply asked him if it still killed groundhogs and he said yes, to which I said, "as long as it's still kills what you point it at I'd keep using it."

What? No new Bartlein!! This one made my morning. Sage advice Jim.