.22-243 Middlestead Groups

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Nice shootin. My P.dog partner sports that very same cartridge. Time after time he's made shots weigh beyond most would even consider. This cartridge is a true long ranger and extremely accurate. Personally I'll sell the rifle if I cannot cover five shots with a dime at one hundred yards. I say this as an avid reloader and amature gunsmith. Most rifles require tweeking and patience. " This is my rifle. There are many like it, but this one is mine. I must master my rifle as I must master my own life." Nice thread in the face of those non-shooters on " The real world accuracy thread " Accurate shooting is a discipline many have not embraced.

SEMPER-FI, Keepem out of the wire!



Hey Ace-Man truer words were never spoken. I agree 100% if I can't get the accuracy I want down the road she goes!! As a good friend of mine once said, "I'm not married to em if they don't perform they're out of here!"

Well as far as the other thread goes it's a relevant thing I've had guys tell me how accurate their rifles are to find out they consider them top notch if they can keep 5 shots on a paper plate at 50 or 60 yards. It's all relative! Some of us just have higher standards I guess!

Chuck
 
Chuckaholic,
He's shooting a 69 gr. bullet. His load retains velocity that you can only dream of with a standard 22-250 bullet.
 
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Chuckaholic,
He's shooting a 69 gr. bullet. His load retains velocity that you can only dream of with a standard 22-250 bullet.



This is true Ace-Man and I'm probably going to settle somewhere around 75 to 80 grains.

Chuckster
 
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anyone makin dies and brass for this caliber?are ya near Elkins or Bowden?
Thank you
Ohiobob



Ohiobob if you're askin me where I'm from I live on Rt 60 midway between Huntington and Charleston. My dies are RCBS I don't know if anyone makes brass for it. All ya got to do is neck down a .243 case and then fireform it.

Chuckster
 
chuckaholic is right if he's talking about a fast twist 22/250. I shoot a 1x8 .223 Ackley with mollied 75 Vmaxes doing 3140's using AA-4064, IMI brass and CCI-450 primers.

Not knocking anybody, just stating a fact.:)
 
Huntinfool:

Very nice looking custom rifle and very good shooting on your part. With the components you mentioned, you obviously understand what it takes to build/own a rifle with predictable accuracy built into it like you have with this one. As you alluded to, even with this great start, it will probably only get better.

Your predictable experience with this rifle also shows that some of the folks with the quick negative comments toward some of us "naysayers" of "all day long" factory rifle accuracy in the Accuracy thread they mention aren't quite in sync with what you have in your rifle or what you knowingly spent your money for.

As I'm sure you knew when you wrote the check for it, you were taking something home that's quite a few steps above the average factory rifle that goes out the door at Gander Mountain. Very few, if any, of those "GM specials" could even touch your rifle for predictable accuracy each time you pull the trigger.

Again, very nice looking/shooting rifle and good shooting on your part. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grinning-smiley-003.gif

Take care. - BCB
 
Well as I've said before I'm just guessing about the 3150 trying to stay on the conservative side. I haven't got a chance to cronograph the rifle yet!

But I do tend to like what 41 grains of 4831 does with the 69 grainers. LOL! Chuckaholic didn't say if he was shooting heavy bullets in his 22-250 or not.

Chuckster
 
I did mean a fast twist 22-250 which according to Hornady will move the 75 gr. A-max at 3200-3300fps. As for myself I currently have a 1 in 8 .224 Kreiger in hand and am well into the third month wait for a Sako Varmint Mcmillian stock to arrive and send the whole works off for something similar. I hope the results are similar.
 
When the weather gets a little better I'm going to try a few different loads and take the crony with me. I'm sure I may settle on at least 75 gr bullets.

Good luck with your rifle!

Chuckster /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grinning-smiley-003.gif
 
Good components and a top smith with a track record leave little to luck as your rifle demonstrates. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grinning-smiley-003.gif Thanks anyway though.
 
Yes you're right Chuckaholic.

I di some research I'm going to get some Hornady A-max 75 grainers man they have a 435 BC much better than the 69 gr Sierras I'm shooting right now!

Chuckster
 

I think if you shooting fur and feathers they are the only way to fly as they exhibit more expansion than other high B.C. 224's. Starting out at 3400 fps and using a 200 yard zero they will need less than 30 MOA to get to a 1000, not that you are looking to go that far but still /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif
 
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they will need less than 30 MOA to get to a 1000, not that you are looking to go that far but still /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif



Sure I am why not LOL! /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/confused1.gif

Chuckster /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grinning-smiley-003.gif
 
Some people get pissy if you talk about shooting 1000 yds at anything other than paper and humans. It's alright to wound an enemy soldier but God forbid you wound a ground squirrel! LOL! /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smiliesmack.gif

We won't let them bother us huh!

Chuckster /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grinning-smiley-003.gif
 
I live in ohio and im 15. I have a 10/22 Ruger with a bushnell scope 3-9x40. I just got it from basspro and had it sighted but i havent got the chance to shoot it. I was going to go hunt some coyote its open season and no limit here.I was wondering if i could take one with my rifle.
 
Sure Baker if you make sure it's sighted in properly. It should take care of coyotes out to 50 or 75 yards, if you hit em where they live. That's in the heart, lung area.

Chuckster
 
The 80gr JLKs are very good at 1000 yards from an 8" twist. Just don't waste any rounds, or have spare barrels on hand. The 22-243 in 8" starts blowing up bullets pretty quick.

Jack
 


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