why called 22-250

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lennitrapperkid54

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why is this gun called by two differnt numbers when the rest of the 22 center family is called by just one like,.223 .224 .225? this may be a dumb qeustion but i was sitting in my deer stand tonight and not seeing anything and this came to my mind
 
Because it is the 250 Savage (250-3000 Savage)necked down to .224. Kind of like the 25-06 or 7mm-08.

AWS
 
It always amazed me where the numbers used to name cartridges, came from. Like the 357 and the 38 using the same bullet, or the year included in the 30-06 for 1906, or the 30 grains of black powder for the 30-30.

Kind of fun when someone explains it to you.
 
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It always amazed me where the numbers used to name cartridges, came from. Like the 357 and the 38 using the same bullet, or the year included in the 30-06 for 1906, or the 30 grains of black powder for the 30-30.

Kind of fun when someone explains it to you.



The 30-30 was NEVER a black powder cartridge.

It was named the 30-30 because it was felt that (in those days) if a cartridge didn't have a second number, people wouldn't trust it.
 
Kinda, sorta, somewhat. It was designed as a smokeless cartridge. The powder charge was 30 grains of smokeless powder, and was given the name due to that fact. Winchester named it the 30WCF, Marlin named it the 30-30. Winchester later adopted the name in the mid 1900's
 
When Jerry Gebby first chambered a rifle for the 22-250 in the 1930's, he called it the 22 Varminter.
I still call my 22-250 the Varminter.

Martyn
 
To go further---As AWS said--- the 250 Savage was also named the 250-3000 Savage. This was because at the beginning of the last century, it was the first commercial round to reach 3000 feet per second.
 


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