Hunting Forum

The only way I personally would use a 22-250 on a deer is if i handloaded the specific loads. I have a 22-250 and I will be loading it possibly for that but I think that my 243 out shines the 22-250 for the larger animals like deer. I shoot 80 gr speers out of the 243 and it does wonders on deer and yotes alike. one bullet two different animals same gun. Alot of it will depend on if yoiu handload or not and if you have time to reset your scope. thats just my opinion happy hunting


ZGull

One can shoot equal weight bullets from a fast twist 22-250 barrels with better BC's. at equal speeds and wack deer handily. The 22-250 started life as a varmint cartridge but advancements in barrel and bullet technoligy have moved it up a notch to being a very effective deer caliber given the correct twist and proper bullet selection. An 80 grain .224 bullet running at about the same speed as a 80 gr .243 bullet is not likely to show much in the way of dimminshed on game performance. Better yet stick some TTSX's in that tube and squirt them out at 3600 FPS and one would be seriously amazed at what one could accomplish in the deer woods. If I do the same with my .22-250AI or my .250 savage AI and the .243 is left hangin by a serious amount in the bizzness of deer wackin.

Still boils down to puttin the RIGHT bullet in the RIGHT place and let them do the work.

I was having the same issue with these calibers, so I'm building one of each.