If there’s one thing interesting about getting on in years, it has to be the memories of times past. I can still recall necking down .250-3000 cases to form what was then known as the .22 Varminter. Today, it’s called the .22-250.
Born of a time when ‘wildcatting’ was in its heyday, the .22-250 was one result of this sort of experimenting that really took off. We can credit a fellow called Captain Grosvenor Wotkyns with the early development of this round. He began back in the 1930s when experimenting with other cartridges using the .22 calibre bullet. Once he decided to use the .250-3000 case, the rest was history. He faced two hurdles though. One was World War Two and the other was Remington’s introduction of the .222
