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[Good Cheer]

Got a fourth hand 788 in 22-250 with the longer rifle length barrel.
Nothing against little bitty jacketed thingies but I'm thinking about reboring to a cartridge for cast boolit shooting.
Something that will function through the action and be a worthwhile upgrade.
Any yall had a 22-250 redid?

[Texas by God]

That's got .35 remington written all over it if the magazine is long enough and wide enough at the shoulder ribs. Or .30 BR maybe?
Best, Thomas.

[ulav8r]

.300 Savage would be my first thought, just big enough to make casting easy and small enough to be economical with lead and powder, while also being a good deer and smaller game gun. (How's that for a run on sentence?)

[richhodg66]

If you shoot it first, you won't want to do it. Never heard of a 788 that wasn't a great shooter.

Betcha could sell that 788 for enough to buy a new Savage 110 in .308 and have some change left over.

[starmac]

I am thinking along the lines of Richdog, perfect chance to make a 22/250 out of it. lol

I do like the 300 savage, but if I was spending bucks to make a dedicated cast shooter, it would not be a short necked 300.

[Good Cheer]

Guess I will check to see if .35 Remington and .338Federal will cycle out of the magazine.
But like you were saying about short necks, I don't want to go there.

.338 Federal has the potential of being a fine cast cartridge if formed from 06 brass and trimmed another bore diameter or so longer. Did something like that with a 7-08 788 in the early eighties when testing out ideas for developing my cast deer rifle. The .28 Long Neck (30-06 brass sized in a 7-08) looked like a beer bottle with a gray cap and cycled through the 788 just fine.
Eventually I settled on the .375x45-70 with a 9/16" long neck; reinvented the 9.5 Mauser [smilie=l: with smokeless.

Any how, now that I'm thinking about it some more, if this 22-250 gets a redid done to it then the final result may as well be cast friendly as opposed to just making do with a jacketed cartridge.

[Texas by God]

The 22-250 788 has a shorter action than the .308 788- the .338 Federal won't fit. You should really just trade that long range varmint slayer for a .308 as Rich said. 788s in good shape bring good money although the 22-250 is the most common one. I would love to have it- that's what I grew up on.
Best, Thomas.

[C. Latch]

I couldn't bring myself to rebore a 788.

YMMV.

[Texas by God]

I tried a .35 Rem factory round in an old 22-250 788 mag I have. Nope. Don't fit.

[Texas by God]

A 788 in .250 Savage might make a good CB rifle!