22br and 20br

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Hambone

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Anyone own and shoot either of these calibres?

22br

20br

views, experiences and opinions welcomed


Ta!
 
I shoot a 6 and 22BR. Natural born bug hole makers. Easy on brass and great accuracy. Pressure jumps "real fast" in the 22 BR compared to it's bigger brother the 6BR but can be tamed real easy. You just have to be aware as you load. The 20BR is next on my list.
 
I shoot a 22 BR with 1 in 8 twist in groundhog matches. Shoot a 75 grain VLD at about 3100 fps. Got over 1,000 round on barrel and still shoots good. I love it. Just got a switch barrel built with a 30 BR and 6 BR barrel.
 
alinwa said:
For light bullets, up to 52gr, 22BR beats the 22-250 in all regards.
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So I have heard. Hence the interest.My old .22-250 is just about on its last legs so I'm starting to look around to see what I might replace it with when it eventually falls off the cliff.

Butch

were you running your .22br towards the upper endof the performance range?
 
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I had a 20BR on a Rem 660 action with Shilen barrel. Really accurate and those 32grain bullets beat the wind. I had mine as high as 4600fps, but dropped down to 4200. Had about 600 rds thru when sold, still doing fine. Some of the early 20cal bullets would blow up at those velocities, but that seems to be fixed now.

Roger Q
HKcarbine
 
I can see why you had a barrel burner. I treated my first .22-250 the same way. Learnt my lessons the hard way back then.
 
I love the 22 BR's for launching 75-80 grain bullets with Varget or H4350, but not so much for the lighter stuff. Everyone always talks about how efficiently it "equals the 22-250", but shooting warm loads they're a throat-roaster. Now that Lapua makes 22-250 brass I've probably built my last 22 BR. With the bullet selection we have now, I'd just build a short-throated 6 BR and shoot anything from 55 grains, to 95 VLD's.
 
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