Vince Green

Whats wrong with getting Claygame to post them?

Henry Kranks sell PP .22-250 for £50 per hundred. I have not tried their .22-250 but the 6.5mm stuff is good. If you are buying imported American ammo the prices will always be a lot more. I have found Park Street Guns to be dear in the past but I haven't been there in ages. I always go to Joe in Cat Hill. You could consider reloading but .22-250 is not a beginners cartridge. Where are you?

Cartridge prices have barely altered in twenty years. Even forty years ago they were £1.25 a box for Hull Three Crowns and Eley was dearer than that. Compare that to wages or the price of petrol. In his book Blackpowder Gunsmithing the author Ralph T Walker describes growing up in Montana USA in the 1920s. A mans wages were $1 a day and yet a box of 25 shotgun cartridges cost $1.50. A box of 50 .22 cartridges was 50 cents and a box of 20 rifle cartridges was over a dollar. Imagine how you would get on with those equivilent prices today!!

In France they have wild boar in the forests and they will attack a human. Many hunters load one barrel with buck and one with ordinary shot just in case. Thats also why a lot of French shotguns are double trigger.

You will find it hard to save money on reloading these days. Twenty years ago I could reload for 50% of the cost or bought cartridges. I'm not sure why things have changed so much.

Only ever bought one box of stingers. Very noisy and accuracy was appalling. They are a bit of a gimmick IMO.

Don't just base your judgement on cheapest because cheapest usually means 28g (1oz). Its worth paying more for 30g.

You have to have proper lubricant otherwise you will lead up the barrel. You will anyway but not anywhere near so bad. It is wrong really to call them lead bullets. Its lead alloy and the alloys needed for good results are high in tin and antimony and they are not easy to get hold of these days. People use to mix up brews of linotype metal, old .22 scrap and bar solder but its hard to get linotype now. You also need a gas check to stop the base melting. The prices some people talk about on here! Primers £3.50 a hundred? I buy rifle primers fron Bisley at £22 a thousand!

I wouldn't use a powder measure for reloading rifle loads. For top accuracy you have to weigh each charge.