Today I was loaned a 22-250 single shot harrington rifle with a 3-9 scope by someone I work with. I started the sighting in process at 25 yards and it was shooting about 7 inches below the bull so I adjusted it till it was right in the bullseye. I moved back to 50 yards to see that it was shooting about 7 inches above the bullseye now. I adjusted it back to hitting the middle of the target at 50. Is this normal bullet rise from this caliber, I am absolutely not familiar with this gun but it is a blast to shoot. I do not have a handloading die for this so I bought a couple boxes of winchester cxp-1 ballistic silvertips. they are my favorite store bought shells. I also have a kind of stupid question, Why is it called a 22-250 anyway??

Salty,
depending on the height of the scope above the center of the bore, what you where seeing is not out of line. The bullet has to be launched at a pretty hefty upward angle get from the bore to the line of sight with a scope that is 1.5" more above the bore, and the 22-250 doesn't drop much in next 25 yards.

It's called the 22-250 because it is a 250 Savage (250-3000) necked down to 22 caliber.

That sounds pretty extreme to me. Normally dead-on at 25 yards is about 2 inches high at 100, and the .22-250 is flat enough shooting that you'd get hardly any rise between 25 and 50 yards - certainly not 7 inches. Maybe the scope has gone kaput???

Today I was loaned a 22-250 single shot harrington rifle with a 3-9 scope by someone I work with. I started the sighting in process at 25 yards and it was shooting about 7 inches below the bull so I adjusted it till it was right in the bullseye. I moved back to 50 yards to see that it was shooting about 7 inches above the bullseye now. I adjusted it back to hitting the middle of the target at 50. Is this normal bullet rise from this caliber, I am absolutely not familiar with this gun but it is a blast to shoot. I do not have a handloading die for this so I bought a couple boxes of winchester cxp-1 ballistic silvertips. they are my favorite store bought shells. I also have a kind of stupid question, Why is it called a 22-250 anyway??

I have to agree with Mike, scope sounds suss.

I hunt with mine and have a nikko stirling 4-12 x50 illuminated scope on it, I sight in at 100yds to be 1" high, puts me dead on at 200yds, and I easily shoot a 'No holdover' with one shot kills out to 250yds.

Its very flat shooting indeed, and has the power behind it too.
Get the die, load your own and get onto 60grain bullets, you'll be amazed at the knockdown power it has.

You can get 75grain and even 80grain if you shop around, however above 60grain, you really need about a 1 in 10 or 1 in 8 twist to stabilise them, most modern 22-250's are 1 in 14 twist and this will stabilise a 60gr no worries.

I get a 5 shot group thats less than 3/4" diameter at 100yds, thats pretty tops in my book.

Regards

Ron