.17 Winchester Super Magnum

[Big Jack]

The round costs 40 cents per shell in Canada.

[Fox]

I would go with .233 unless you reload. 22-250 is a great gun and perfect for what you want, but costs more to feed unless you reload.

Burnt barrels is another thing to consider with the 22-250. If you want higher hitting power in a 22 cal then you might as well look into upping the caliber and saving your barrel, 243 for varmints is not a bad thing.

I have a 222 Rem, I want a Hornet but I will not bother with a rimfire that is not a 22 LR, I have grandpas 25 Stevens Long and I know how hard it is to find obsolete rimfire rounds.

[Waftrudnir]

Burnt barrels is another thing to consider with the 22-250. If you want higher hitting power in a 22 cal then you might as well look into upping the caliber and saving your barrel, 243 for varmints is not a bad thing.

I have a 222 Rem, I want a Hornet but I will not bother with a rimfire that is not a 22 LR, I have grandpas 25 Stevens Long and I know how hard it is to find obsolete rimfire rounds.

never heard of anyone shooting out a barrel hunting coyotes. I guess if you shoot that many, you deserve a new rifle anyway.

[Big Jack]

You won't hurt a barrel hunting. Its those range sessions when someone won't give the rifle a rest that does the damage!

[Big Jack]

Burnt barrels is another thing to consider with the 22-250. If you want higher hitting power in a 22 cal then you might as well look into upping the caliber and saving your barrel, 243 for varmints is not a bad thing.

I have a 222 Rem, I want a Hornet but I will not bother with a rimfire that is not a 22 LR, I have grandpas 25 Stevens Long and I know how hard it is to find obsolete rimfire rounds.

Just picked up a tikka T3 lite in triple deuce. Nice light gun. Hoping for good things and this one hasn't seen any use.

[Fox]

Just picked up a tikka T3 lite in triple deuce. Nice light gun. Hoping for good things and this one hasn't seen any use.

Mine is a Remington 700, shot like a dream when I was 18, now that I have put on a few years and I don't shoot like I used to my groups have opened up way too much. It is really time to get back to the range and attempt to burn out some barrels, ha ha.

The 220 swift and 22-250 are known to have issues with barrels, I was told thw 17 Remington too. The number I see are 5-10K rounds out of a 223 for a barrel depending on how you rest it. The 22-250 looks to be about 2.5K-4K down the tube before you burn it out.

If you want to plink groundhogs the 223 as the 222 is tougher and tougher to find ammo.

I see the 17 caliber guns as an oddity, there are a lot of weird things going on in there, 20 cal guns are similar, really fast, really small hole, tiny bullet. They get moved around in the wind a lot more than the larger bullets and do not have long bullets so they do not hold a great BC, not a long range bullet and rimfires just scare me, I wonder about all the guys who got a 5mm Remington Magnum in the 70s, almost useless guns now, the 17 HM2 is really hard to find as well.

[Waftrudnir]

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The 220 swift and 22-250 are known to have issues with barrels, I was told thw 17 Remington too. The number I see are 5-10K rounds out of a 223 for a barrel depending on how you rest it. The 22-250 looks to be about 2.5K-4K down the tube before you burn it out.

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I would not doubt for a second that you get double the barrel life out of a .222 compared to .220 swift, but in context of coyote hunting and occasional target shooting I don't see barrel life as a limitation and would for practical purposes not consider it.
if we were talking about target practice with one of the .300 ultra magnums, I would have a very different point of view

[Hunter John]

some of the ultra hot weatherby and lazzeroni chamberings have a usefull barrel life well south of 1000 rounds.

[Big Jack]

Realistically 22-250 is a 1000 round barrel before you see your groups start to open a bit. Doesn't mean it still won't shoot well but simply not as well.

If you do occasional target shooting all you have to do is overheat the barrel and you can destroy it in a hundred rounds.

[Gunner 38]

Ammo cost is the same as 22mag or 17hmr.

Who are you kidding? --- Since the weather was nice I straddled my "putt-putt" and went into town . Can.Tire is selling 2 different brands of .17 Winchester Super Magnum ammo (20gr.). The cheaper-one is ~ $23 (~ $26 incl. tax) and the other-one (Hornady) retails for ~ $33 (~ $37.29 incl. tax) . That's ~ $0.52 and ~ $0.75 respectively (per cartridge). Approximately 10 weeks ago (currently sold out) I purchased Win. as well as Rem. 22 Magnums for ~ $15 (40gr.solids) and ~ $16 (40gr.HPs) . Tax incl. ~ $16.95 (solids) and ~ $18.08 (HPs) . Meaning : ~ $0.34 (for one) and ~ $0.36 (for the other) per cartridge . --- If these "charges" appear to be the same to you , I'd suggest , you better hang on to the swamp-land for your own use .