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Posted by albert (Member # 98) on March 17, 2007, 05:51 AM:
I'm in the process of building another 22-250 Ack. on a Rem. S.A.. I would like to use a slightly longer overall length than is allowed with the standard mag box.
Will a mag box out of a 243 work? or is there a better solution.
Thanks Albert
Posted by TA17Rem (Member # 794) on March 17, 2007, 11:28 AM:
The mag. box for a 243 or a 6mm rem should work for this project. I just measured my 22-250 ackley magazine and i came up with 2.836 for O.A.L.. Does youre rifle have a stop block in the magizine ? If so you can go with a longer follower without makeing any major changes. On my rifle i'm not sure of what it was before i had it built into a 22-250imp it might of been a 6 mm rem.
Posted by Dan Carey (Member # 987) on March 17, 2007, 11:36 AM:
Both the 22-250 and the 243 have the same box and follower. It's about 2.850 give or take. There is no box bigger than the one Remington uses that will fit the SA.
Posted by albert (Member # 98) on March 18, 2007, 06:36 AM:
Hi Dan
I guess you are right. I have never owned a rem short action bigger than a 22-250. So I checked with a buddy and the only thing that they do do is make a shorter mag box for the .223 family of cartridges.
Posted by Tim Behle (Member # 209) on March 18, 2007, 08:04 AM:
Albert,
What's the point in needing a longer box?
Wouldn't you be better served to have the reamer set to cut the throat short? That way you could adjust your seating depth out to chase the lands as you burned out the barrel.
Posted by Leonard (Member # 2) on March 18, 2007, 08:05 AM:
Albert, write, phone, or parachute in. Did you leave a message a couple weeks ago, on my machine? Come to think of it, just email me, I'm back in AZ, right now, for a week or so? I need your address and you were going to send me a package.
A 22-250 Ackley should fit the magazine of any 22-250 Rem. or 243 built action. I assume the concern is seating heavy bullets way out there? Because the Ackley actually makes up shorter than a standard 22-250. The trick is matching the "leade" or freebore, if any(?) on your barrel with the limitations of the magazine.
Sometimes I think the length of the 6MM Remington cartridge has a lot more to do with the limitations of the short action than utility, or popularity?
But, there is a lot of chatter on the 'net about 22-250 Ackley, which is well deserved, but a good one I see employed amongst the locals out here is the 243Ackley. That one, with a proper bullet, really does it all. I think (possibly) many of the hot rock 6/284 users would be better served with a 243AI?
Good hunting. LB
Posted by TA17Rem (Member # 794) on March 18, 2007, 10:33 AM:
The 243 ackley is pretty popular here also and the 22 cheetah. Both are very accurate and make good long range fur gitters. The only down side is a little more recoil but none the less fine cartridges to work with....
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