Chris Shelton
Silver $$ Contributor
I recently got the opportunity to purchase a few rifles from an old lady whose husband had passed. He had a very nice collection with a lot of old 700 BDLs with the black tip and nice wood stock. Some of them were all factory mint condition and some were very tastefully rebarreled with matching bluing, bedded, trigger jobs on the factory Remington triggers, etc. I bought a custom 700 22-250 AI, a custom 700 17 Remington and an Interarms Mark X barreled in 250 savage AI. All guns have mint condition Leupold Vari-x III 6.5-20 scopes on them. He had a bunch of loaded ammo for each, brass, and Redding dies. She said all the stuff goes with each rifle. I feel bad for what I paid for each gun, but the woman had a detailed list and knew what she had. She had a story for most of the rifles. She couldn’t recall the gunsmith in Colorado who did the work on every custom one though. At the end of the day, she just wanted them gone.
Now that the background is out of the way, the rifle that intrigues me most is the 250AI. I never had an urge or desire to own one, but I bought it because it was a beautiful gun and a hell of a deal. After buying it I did some research and turns out it’s quite the impressive little round. The rounds that came with it are already fire formed rounds loaded with RL15 and 87 gr sierras. I look forward to shooting them and seeing her late husbands reloading skills in action. I plan to deconstruct a few rounds to check charge consistency just because. As I keep doing research on the rifle/cartridge, My question is what is your alls experience with this round? What load combinations do you all like? Any info about it is much appreciated. I can post some pictures of the rifle if anyone would be interested in seeing it.
Now that the background is out of the way, the rifle that intrigues me most is the 250AI. I never had an urge or desire to own one, but I bought it because it was a beautiful gun and a hell of a deal. After buying it I did some research and turns out it’s quite the impressive little round. The rounds that came with it are already fire formed rounds loaded with RL15 and 87 gr sierras. I look forward to shooting them and seeing her late husbands reloading skills in action. I plan to deconstruct a few rounds to check charge consistency just because. As I keep doing research on the rifle/cartridge, My question is what is your alls experience with this round? What load combinations do you all like? Any info about it is much appreciated. I can post some pictures of the rifle if anyone would be interested in seeing it.
