Had the same decision to make about 10 years ago. A gun nut friend of helped me out.
Put my on a Savage 112 in 22-250 with a 6x24x40 Tasco. Buy going on the low end of things I was able to spend a little lessand get into reloading.
After some trial and error on developing a load, it'sextremely accurate
52 Gr Speer HP, 34 Gr of 4064.