223 win short mag

After you have shot High Power matches for many years you find out some stuff. The 223 has won many matches against 30-06 and 308 guns. This is over the coarse. That means 200,300 and 600 yards. The 22-250 is a great round and I do have one but... let me tell ya. The care and feeding of a HIGH quality gun will pay off in so many ways. A costom barrel like a Krager will cost ya like $350.00 but the bullets will go through the same hole!!! The other thing is to load your own ammo. If you use the same procedures as hand loaders that shoot match you will have a "death ray" of a gun. I know this is way over kill for ground hogs but is is true. Federal makes a good "match" load ammo and will hold dime size groups at 150 yards. The same cases reloaded with Match bullets and hand thrown powder charges will make a ragged hole in the target. Machines just don't "Hand load". Depends how tight you want your groups. The 223 is very good out to 150 yards with 55gr blittzer bullets and hogs just blow up! The 22-250 with the same bullet and hogs vaporize! These boxed loads you can buy at your local sports shop or order them. The simple thing is buy what you can and spend some time at the range! The 223 is cheap to feed and very easy to reload. The 22-250 is for long range stuff and you REALY need to know how to read the wind and conditions to do those fancy 400 yard shots. I have done it and it is real neat. Hope this didn't do a total over load on ya but you could go to a GOOD local gun club when they are having a DCM match and talk to the two guys that finished first and second. They will give you so much information your head will swim. Some of the REAL big boys shoot 1000 yard miatches and the winners have LESS than FOUR INCH GROUPS!!! I can't do that cause New Jersey only has a couple of 600 yard ranges. OK that is enough. Hope I helped. Jeffcat

I've handloaded my springfield M1A, with a friend who is more experienced in handloads, and it gave some great results also many center of heart shots on whitetails with that same batch of rounds, it's a nice hobby, with so many variables and things to learn, buy, practice etc. and always fun when you get a chance to test out your work on the range, does seem to give good results, sometimes you have to change things and shoot, and keep at it until you find a combination that works for a particular rifle. See a lot or retirees taking up shooting at this particular range, many times you have the place to yourself, no one is there.