middlestead 22/243

I recently had one put together, its a straight 22-243 Winchester. I went with a Lilja 1-12 twist 27 inch barrel and wanted to run 55-69gr bullets. I have not had it long so I cant say much other than it seems very accurate. I have tried several bullets for accuarcy at limited range, 200 yards and mine seems best with 63 grain Varminter and 65 grain Game Kings both from Serria.
I hope to show it off with some fur real soon.
 
RR, did you use Rem BR brass with small primers or std 243 brass? I'm curious because alot of guys had trouble with hangfires using small primers. Thats why I went with the 22-243AI, almost identical but less forming and large primers
 
JB
Nope I used 308 LC89 match brass and Lapua brass. Never intended to use BR brass for the exact reason you stated. LC brass is good for 10+ firings. Lapua didn't handle high pressure real well, just a little soft in the head like the Pres.
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Yep, thats the reason I didnt go with the Cheetah, I didnt realize at the time that I could substitute other brass.
Ive also looked at the 22 Jaybird but eventually went with the Middlested because I can use quality 22BR dies to load for it and never actually built my own middlested dies until about 5 years ago.
 
RR, wow no wonder you had so many forming operations, going from 308 to 22. [beeep], I just neck my Lapua's from 243 to 22 and they're ready to fireform. Of course after all the turning, trimming, and prep is done
 
A few of them steps are due to a tight neck chamber (.248). I would turn the .308 necks down to .011" then run thru the size dies. Back into the neck turner for a final cut then off to the fire form barrel. I chambered a shot out swift barrel and used the cheapest bullets I could find to save the match barrels.
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