Originally Posted by
Blackelk
jhilde,
I prefer to shoot nothing but Ruger #1 rifles. I have one in a 22-250 and it's a shooter it will put a hole in a hole at 100yds. It took me awhile to figure out that it had a 14" twist in the rifling so I had to play with ammo to get it to shoot like that. I personally like the 52 grain hornady Amax in my rifle. It will prefer the lighter bullets for accuracy.
I just went to the Ruger website to look at barrel twist rate. Twist rate in most rifles is just a comprimise, the heavier the bullet the faster the twist rate has to be. Most manufacturers use a rate that'll stabilize the heaviest commercially available bullet. The problem is that it's too fast for the average weight bullet to attain the best accuracy. It's clear that Ruger calls this rifle in 22-250 a Varminter. I bet if the twist rate was fast enough to stabilize a 77 grain deer bullet that you wouldn't put all of you varmint bullets in the same hole.