22-250 free bore

[hoene72]

Hi Everyone
I am looking to get a new barrel for my savage 22-250. What would be a good freebore to get for the 55 grains bullets?

Thanks

 

[robbor]

"Id get a min freebore, theres never enough room in the mag for factory freebore. I dont know if .025" is std min or what?
Usually you dont have anychoice in that when buying a prefit, just ask them what freebore their reamers have. Id never buy a barrel with a long freebore to seat long bullets way out.

 

[fdshuster]

hoene72: You might want to consider loading a dummy round with your first bullet of choice, seated to the depth you want ( I prefer the base of the bullet at, or very close to the neck/shoulder junction), and giving that dummy round to your gunsmith. He could cut the chamber with a non throating reamer, then go in with a throating reamer & give you whatever freebore dimension you require. Unless powder capacity is a consideration, I prefer getting as close to zero freebore as possible. Every bit of freebore that you start out with is wasted, it will only grow longer as the round count increases (and that won't take long with the 22-250) and before long you'll run out of case neck to hold the bullet and still be within a reasonable distance form the lands. Been there/ done that. I buy my own chamering reamers and the reamer maker is provided with a dummy round, and I get exactly what I want, not what someone may have laying around their shop.

 

[Ackman]

No freebore......with 0 freebore, touching the lands a VMax, Btip, Blitzking all seat to within about .020" of each other and the deepest is right at the neck/shoulder junction.

 

[Rust]

If you intend on feeding from the mag, make up a couple of dummy rounds just a hair under mag length for that rifle and use a reamer that will cut a chamber to match the dummy rounds.

 

[Ackman]

If you intend on feeding from the mag, make up a couple of dummy rounds just a hair under mag length for that rifle and use a reamer that will cut a chamber to match the dummy rounds.

This is very bad advice. The Savage short action isn't short, it's closer in length to a Rem. long action than the short one. Magazine length isn't a problem with 22-250 or 243 length cartridges, there's plenty of room. Hoene is talking about 55gr. bullets.....cutting the chamber for one of those seated just short of magazine length, at the lands there'd be not much bullet in the neck. As the throat wears you seat out further to compensate. But if they're already seated just shy of magazine length to begin with, forget doing that.