I'm actually getting some humor out of this thread now.

He wants to use the 22-250. I did too. He's tried w/o taking our advice. I tried both w/o and with the advice here and never got it to work. (spent a lot of time and money working up those loads with premium bullets) He seemingly has. More power to him. Lubricious, I certainly am the horse looking at the water...but this horse has tried and is done with 22-250 for deer...he was quite happy with his .44 revolver year. (300gr XTP @about1200fps) Come to think of it there's another difference between mine and his experience: His shots were longer range and gave the bullet some time to bleed of velocity.

Now, I've gotta go clean my MAF/MAP and figure out what "The ECM has detected a fault in the 5 volt reference voltage line." means. My truck is throwing those three codes and if I don't get it worked out by the next wet spell I won't have a vehicle worth driving.