Loading the 22-250 with 55 gr. MOLY

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dlsjm

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I bought a box of 55 gr. moly coated bullets for my 22-250. I'm thinking that I can get some greater velocities with out too much chamber pressure, I'd like to see how fast I can get these thinks going. I wonder though if these coated bullets maybe harmful to the rifle barrel. I have read that the moly maybe hard to clean out of the barrel and may affect accuracy when returning to conventional bullets. Have you had any experience with moly coated bullets?
 
Back Up Here A Moment And Think Just What You Wrote Here.

Does that make sense to you ?
They are a T-TOTAL waste of money, primers, and propellent. But go ahead, do not listen to me, this may well be something best found out by personal experience.
 
You won't get enough change in velocity to make any differance.

You will coat the bore with moly, which will be very hard to clean out completely.

rcmodel
 
Just looking for advice

I would think that if you can remove lead and copper fouling from a barrel you could also remove moly. I'm actually kind of sorry I asked.
 
Can't hurt to try - go ahead and have fun

The more common experience is that there is no useful velocity gain - many people aren't even trying for a velocity gain with moly but for more shots between cleaning and/or easier cleaning as when shooting is hot and heavy on prairie dogs or ground squirrels or the blacktail jacks, may their tribe increase, if they ever come back -

Most people find that moly over copper fouling is a bad idea including increased corrosion - there is some dispute as to what impurities in moly compounds, if any, might be hygroscopic, there is no dispute that moly in a previously fouled barrel is a bad idea - sort of like cast bullets apparently it pays to get the barrel really clean before laying down moly - then apparently whatever moly is removed by a shot is replaced by the same shot for a steady state effect - similarly most people find that a moly coated barrel without the moly bullets is a bad idea as the barrel corrodes while the moly is shot out unevenly and so each shot is done with unique conditions where consistency is the idea in a varmint rifle.

My own experience is that there is nothing to be gained by hotrodding a .22-250 with a 55 grain bullet - as others have said when you need more than a .22-250 with a 55 grain bullet you need a faster twist heavy bullet or a 6mm not a .22 Swift. No reflection on a .220 Swift but do the math to figure out just how many yards the faster bullet out of a maxed out .220 Swift travels before it slows to .22-250 muzzle velocities and figure the .220 Swift will range the .22-250 by no more than those few yards. Then figure what the gain is by hotrodding the .22-250.
 
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