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🗓️ 19 January 2024
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Is there a predator-hunting cartridge that outperforms all others? There is, and it's called the 22 Creedmoor. It's designed for maximum performance with modern, high-BC .22-caliber centerfire bullets, and as a result is much more effective than classic favorites such as the .22-250.
Skeptical? I admit I sure was. Research showed me that the 22 Creedmoor doesn't just outperform the .22-250 and other popular predator rounds, it eclipses them. Want some numbers? The 22 Creedmoor is more effective at 800 yards than the .22-250 is at 500 yards. It has less than half the wind drift. It impacts with more than double the energy and a whole lot more velocity downrange.
Wildcatted and promoted by serious coyote competition callers in Texas, the 22 Creedmoor has just been legitimized by Hornady and is now a proper factory-loaded cartridge. Horizon Firearms has exclusive marketing priveledges for Hornady ammo, and makes the finest 22 Creedmoor factory-ready rifles I've seen anywhere—for half the cost you'd expect.
This was a unique project with a result that really surprised me. Candidly, I had no idea just how good the 22 Creedmoor would prove to be.
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0:00.0 | The old coyote hunter was short, but fit, with bands of sinew bulging through his forearms like steel cables. |
0:08.0 | He wore a felt fedora hat, Fred Bear style. |
0:12.0 | The vintage re-curve bow and his fist was worn, but deadly. |
0:17.0 | We're shooting an indoor 3D traditional archery league in an attempt to shake off the doldrums |
0:22.1 | of winter. I knew he hunted coyotes for living and I had to ask |
0:26.7 | what's your favorite predator cartridge? |
0:29.5 | Hunting fur he responded I like a 17 Remington best. |
0:34.1 | Just doesn't do any damage. |
0:36.4 | But the value of peltz is way down. |
0:38.8 | Nowadays, sometimes you just about got to do coyote-calling competitions to make a few bucks? |
0:44.9 | In memory's eye, I seem to see him roll a plug of tobacco from one cheek to the other and spit. |
0:50.9 | But I'm pretty sure that's just my imagination adding flavor to the long ago scene. |
0:56.4 | He continued, what I'm calling, I use a 243, can't afford to lose one. |
1:02.3 | A coyote poorly hit with a 17 will run off. The |
1:05.9 | 243 hits a lot harder. I was interested in a bit surprised that the old predator |
1:11.9 | hunter skipped right over the 22 center fires such as the 22-250 and |
1:17.5 | 220 swift and so forth. Were I to ask him the same question now, two decades later, I suspect his answer would be different. |
1:27.0 | Folks, our primary topic today is what I believe is the ultimate predator-killing cartridge, the new 22 Creedmoor. |
1:35.0 | I'm Joseph von Benedict, your host and this is the backcountry hunting podcast. |
1:40.0 | Now there's no need to beat around the bush. Let's dive right in and explore the |
1:44.9 | 22 Creedmoor. Its design of course is fairly straightforward. It's a neck down |
1:51.0 | 6.5 Creedmoor case just with the next side down to hold 22 |
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