my experience with the 250
back in 1975 I was 15 years old, I wanted a rifle with a scope to deer hunt with, at the local gunshop the only thing they had that I could pay for was a used remington 788 chambered in 22-250, I mowed grass all summer and made weekly payments when fall came I brought it home.
the first thing that impressed me was the flat trajectory, it was very easy to hit targets to beyond 300 yards.
my first deer season I found out that at that time, the 22-250 wasn't much of a deer cartridge but man would that dang thing shoot. when deer were in the picture you either took a head/neck shot or had a diffacult day tracking, you mostly could see the dead deer laying from the first drop of blood you found. I asked myself, should it be this hard? bear in mind this was before there were bullets designed for deer hunting in .224 cal.
That old remington got traded off and I never really missed it untill....1992, I had gotten married, and when I bought my house, just up the road lived a man who would become the best friend I ever had, he was always after me to go hunting be it groundhogs, deer, bear, turkeys made no difference we became inseparable.
when we met I had given up the 223 for a groundhog rifle and was using a model 600 243 win. killed alot of hogs with it at some pretty spectacular ranges, but he just insisted that I needed a 22-250, he had an ffl, offered to order me my choice of rifle and scope at cost, so finaly I agreed, ended up with a ruger #1V 22-250 and a bausch and Lomb 6x24 signature.
used that rifle for years with no problems killed groundhogs at 500 yards, crows beyond 400, just could never fall in love with it, the rifle at its best would shoot 1 5/8's at 250 yards but by then I was ate up with the accuracy bug so it was kinda put aside.
one of the few rifles I ever owned that I could not drasticly improve accuracy over factory loads by handloading, probably just that rifle, but of the 3 22-250's I have owned have never got overly excited by them.
my loads were with varget, IMR 4895, IMR 4064. its a good cartridge I just never had a great experience with it.
RR