legion Posted August 21, 2009 Report Share Posted August 21, 2009 What is the optimum barrel length for a 22/250, without giving too much velocity away with factory ammo. many thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jinks Posted August 21, 2009 Report Share Posted August 21, 2009 My Tikka 595 has a 22" barrel (factory barrel) but I get nowhere near the velocities stated in reloading manuals or the velocities stated by factory ammo manufacturers. When I enqired about re-barelling it, I was told to go for a 24" as a good compromise for getting good velocities and still being compact, 26" if weight and length were no issue. Hope this helps, Cheers, Jinks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TonyH Posted August 21, 2009 Report Share Posted August 21, 2009 My Tikka 595 has a 22" barrel (factory barrel) but I get nowhere near the velocities stated in reloading manuals or the velocities stated by factory ammo manufacturers. When I enqired about re-barelling it, I was told to go for a 24" as a good compromise for getting good velocities and still being compact, 26" if weight and length were no issue. Hope this helps, Cheers, Jinks. I'd echo that, makes sense to me. I'm on my fourth 22-250: three have had heavy 26" varmint barrels which gave very satisfactory MV, one was an experiment that didn't work out - it had a skinny 22" barrel that did not provide consistent accuracy but did provide severe muzzle blast. My advice: go for 26" in a varminter, maybe 24" as Jinks says for a standard weight rifle. Regards, TonyH Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
legion Posted August 21, 2009 Author Report Share Posted August 21, 2009 I'd echo that, makes sense to me. I'm on my fourth 22-250: three have had heavy 26" varmint barrels which gave very satisfactory MV, one was an experiment that didn't work out - it had a skinny 22" barrel that did not provide consistent accuracy but did provide severe muzzle blast. My advice: go for 26" in a varminter, maybe 24" as Jinks says for a standard weight rifle.Regards, TonyH cheers guys, it is a 26 inch varminter barrel, so not worth chopping, i just zeroed with a new scope at 200yards and got inch groups with factory sako ballistic tips-well pleased. hoped sako soft point deer rounds of the same weight would have same point of impact-no chance, back to the drawing board. all the best. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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