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Exciting news from Lapua
The 22-250 is a much under-rated cartridge – for two
reasons.
Firstly, rifle manufacturers have insisted on
barrelling their 22-250 rifles with a relatively slow twist,
thus forcing the shooter to use light bullets in the 50-
55 grain range. Although this results in a very fast,
flat-shooting cartridge, its range is limited and as
such does not interest the
target shooter. Also, its muzzle velocity
exceeds the m/v limits of military certified ranges.
Secondly, the brass is mediocre at best – until
now that is. From next year, Lapua will be making
22-250 brass. This opens up many possibilities
for the target shooter who likes small calibres. A
22-250 shooting 80 grain bullets will be an
amazing round out to 600 yards - and beyond. A 1 in
9 twist should stabilise the 80 grain bullet but the 90
grainer is also a possibility. Or neck it up to 6mm and
you have 6-6.5 x 47 Lapua with a useful increase
in case capacity. You could even neck it to 6.5mm.
The brass will also be ideal for forming 6XC cases,
though Norma do make these now.
From initial pictures, it looks as though the Lapua
22-250 will have a large primer. I’m slightly surprised
as Lapua initially introduced the 6.5x47 with a large
primer then changed it for a small primer when it
went into production. As far as I could ascertain, the
reason was an increase in accuracy with the small
primer.
ISSF World Cup Final
The final event of the World Cup season took
place this week in Wuxi, China, the world’s best
shooters including Olympic champions, title
defenders and World Cup Series leaders
competed in the prestigious ISSF World Cup Final
for Rifle & Pistol.
Men’s 3 Positions
The Men’s 3 Positions final took place with title
defender Matt Emmons taking the gold medal.
The Olympic multi-medallist outscored Korea’s
Han and the talented Norwegian shooter Bakken
with a total score of 1277.3 (1177-62 + 100.3). All
finalist were shooting eley.
Qualification leader’s Han Jinseop finished in
second behind Emmons, grabbing Silver with
1274.6 points. Walking into the final in the lead
with the highest qualification score of 1180 points,
Han wasted his advantage by shooting twice in
the eights and scoring 94.6 points in the final. The
28-year old Korean athlete climbed on the second
step of the podium thanks to a fatal mistake of his
Norwegian opponents Ole Magnus Bakken, who
closed the final with a 5.3 and shot himself back in
third with a total
of 1270.0 points
(1180+90.0).
Final scores
from the
championship
can be found
on the ISSF
website.
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