.22-250 ackley improved input desired.

[Bluenote]

Input on the .22-250 Ackley improved desired prior to jumping on a great deal , see message/thread in the reloading section for further info.

Any input welcome , negative or positive , on the surface it seems to offer quite some advantages over .22-250 ( which I have experience with) and .220 swift.

Gotta be careful about my wildcat habit/tendencies though.

 

[APIT50]

Depending upon how you load it and I am assuming you load for your wildcats you will be subtracting 500-800 rounds of barrel life as the 22-250 is a barrel burner anyway. You will get all of the benefits of ackleyizing (is that a word? microsoft doesn't think so but it doesn't seem to think that microsoft is a word either)...back on track. I have seen upwards of 4400 fps in a 26 in barrel and there is less case growth from the sharper shoulder angle. If you don't mind fireforming and buying barrels a little more often it is a fun cartridge just make sure you wear hearing protection when shooting it has a really loud and sharp report.

 

[Al LaVodka]

What's the real downside? U can still use standard cartridges and if you load Ackley Improved the rule of thumb is 100 FPS faster speed...
Al

 

[GooseGestapo]

Do consider what APIT50 said concerning barrel life.

Also, buy it with the caveat that if the barrel is soured, you can bring it back and get your money back after test firing.

The barrel may have already had the good gotten out of it, and thats why it's for sale.

My one and only experience with an Ackley IMP was with a Ruger #3 in .22Hornet I bought many years ago. In no way was it marked as having been reamed to .22K-Hornet and I bought it thinking it was a factory Hornet. But after firing the first case it was un-mistakeably a K-Hornet chamber. The problem is that the chamber had been reamed out of alignment with the bore, and unless the brass was full lenght sized and aligned with the chamber exactly the way it was previously fired, reloaded ammo wouldn't chamber. Accuracy was also absent. It fired "patterns" rather than groups. I eventually sold it to a gun-smith who wanted the action, ect for a rebuild to something else.

Hence, proceed cautiously........