well I have many 22-250's but all were heavy barreled rifles, and like you I wanted a lighter one for walking and coyote hunting
so a few yrs back, I started looking, and I found the Mossberg Patriot rifle to about fit my needs
http://www.mossberg.com/category/ser...sberg-patriot/

now they make it ion a TON of different configurations, they didn;t have at the time I got mine
but its been super accurate sub 1 MOA on factory ammo, and with some playing I am sun 1/2 MOA now

a lot of nice features for not a lot of cash, little crude on machining and cycling of bolt , but for a beater gun I don't have a lot of $$ into, its very accurate and does all I want
I snow camo'd mine , as most times I hunt it seems to be in snow any more?
but it gets my vote