22-250 burn up barrels?
 

Someone told me the 22-250 will burn up barrels because of the high velocity & I'd be better off getting a 223 - any truth here? Looking at mostly shooting coyotes & crows etc. Biggest I'd probably want to go is a 270 just thinking of hunting out west someday. I just won a 257 weatherby mag but saw the cost of the shells - gasp! So hope to sell it and get a little smaller caliber.

RE: 22-250 burn up barrels?
 

I have a nice 22-250 I'll trade for the 257.



Ruger M77 MII bedded and floated. 3lbs trigger job.







Rifle
KM77RBZ MKII


Caliber:
.22-250 Rem

Barrel Length:
22"

Stock:
Brown Laminate

Rear Sight:
None

Suggested Retail Price:
$ 805.00

RE: 22-250 burn up barrels?
 

I have heard that as weel. I don't know how true it is,but I bought a .223 just in case. Plus my father in-law has a 22.250. If I bought the same gun,I would never hear the end of it. " I told you the 22.250 was the way to go" Or somethinglike that. Now I can tell him I didn't but the same gun because I heard it was junk.hehehe:D


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RE: 22-250 burn up barrels?
 

if you handload real barn burners for your .22-250 it will wear out a barrel kinda fast.The way to keep a barrel for a long time is to not get it hot. If you are intosod poodle shooting, take a break and let it cool down.My Remington 700 was originally in .22-250.Firedover 3,500 rounds through that barrel before accuracy slowly started going to pot. In quick succession i had a Hart and a Douglas barrel on it-total waste of money.Neither barrelwas any where near as accurate asthe original Remington barrel.Had it re-barreled by Remington.Thenre-chambered itto.22/308=.22 CHEETA.

RE: 22-250 burn up barrels?
 

Remember, we now have better quality steel and barrels than ever before. With this quality comes better life span of the barrel.
Keep your loads at a reasonable speed/pressure and the barrel will last a very long time. Load hot snot speedsters at max or over consistantly and you'll wear out the barrel sooner rather than later. Also, as a gentleman stated earlier in this post that excessive heat is the evil of barrel life. Very true, so, shoot a few, let it cool a bit, shoot a few and so on....
I'd rather be the most accurate guy on the range than the fastest bullet there!!!

RE: 22-250 burn up barrels?
 

Wssm barrels are subject to even more damage. That is the main reason I didn't buy that .223 wssm A-bolt. To much preasure and heat.


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RE: 22-250 burn up barrels?
 

THe A bolt have chrome lined barrel which pretty much take care of the barrel burning.

RE: 22-250 burn up barrels?
 

Mainly, what ruins barrels fast is a lot of shooting with a hot barrel. i suppose the .223 might outlasta .22/250 if you shoot many rounds per day at ground hogs or prairie dogs, and the barrel doesn't have time to cool between shots. But for shooting five or six coyotes per day, the .22/250 will certainly do OK. It does not have as bad a rep for barrel life as the .220 Swift....

RE: 22-250 burn up barrels?
 

YOu sure about that? I have never read and or heard it having a chrome lined barrel. Some of thier old shotguns did. But as far as I know, thier rifles never have. I could be wrong.

RE: 22-250 burn up barrels?
 

I just got done checking. And the A-Bolts do have chrome lined barrel. Learn something every day.

RE: 22-250 burn up barrels?
 

They do have a partially chrome lined barrel. It may or may not help with the heat damage. Chrome is almost impossible to get applied evenly, so it definatlyhurts accuracy. Yet another reason I didn't buy that A-bolt.


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RE: 22-250 burn up barrels?
 

Don't tell that to FN. Those FN SPR's are so accurate, you could shoot rocks out of them and get MOA performance and totally chrome lined barrel. I am still amazed when I shoot one 20 times that day and no copper whatsoever in the barrel.

RE: 22-250 burn up barrels?
 

I was only repeating what I was told by a person that I consider to be very knowledgable. I couldn't come up with that on my own. Most of the time I am full of #2

RE: 22-250 burn up barrels?
 

I was at FN mfg in Va. The engineer there said alot of people was concerned about thier chrome lined barrels as they used to do this with shotgun barrels alot. But he assured me, it can be coated evenly and they measure thier barrels with air gauges. So I understand where your comeing from, that you can mill something a whole lot more evenly than coating it.

RE: 22-250 burn up barrels?
 

I’d sure like to see how it’s done being that I work with metal and we have chrome items done all the time...:eek:

RE: 22-250 burn up barrels?
 

Give them a call. They are in Fredericksburg, VA. I wouldn't mind to see that myself. In fact, I wouldn't mind to see how even the AR guys do it.

RE: 22-250 burn up barrels?
 

[/align]I don't have a problem believing you Big. What I don't know about guns you could just about squeeze into the Grand Canyon.

RE: 22-250 burn up barrels?
 

As much as it interest me to see there procedure , I don’t think it would happen for a long time. Maybe they’ll have it on TV one day...

RE: 22-250 burn up barrels?
 

I got about 3,000 rounds out of my 22-250 M70 Stealth (blued steel) before accuracy started to fade a little. Since I mostly shoot ground squirrels, I could've easily gotten by with a .223 and saved a lot of powder. However, like an earlier poster said, if you're only going after coyotes you might as well go for the larger round (22-2500.

RE: 22-250 burn up barrels?
 

I have rebarreled enough .22-250's to create myself a storage problem for shot out barrels. The 3,000 round figure is pretty accurate, depending of course on how hot they were loaded and how hot you let the gun get when varmint hunting. Normal .223 barrel life is about 5,000.

This is using .5 MOA as the starting point and 1 MOA as the maximum allowable group size. I went to a Colt AR-15/M-16 armorer's school last May and they were saying that Colt considers the maximum barrel life of one their AR15 barrels to be 35,000 to 70,000 rounds. But their maximum group size requirement is something like minute-of-grapefruit :)