Description
The Weatherby Vanguard Compact 22-250 is a short, light, sub-MOA bolt gun built for shooters who want a full-strength Vanguard action in a package that actually fits them. It pairs a 20-inch #1 contour cold hammer forged barrel with a matte blued, drilled and tapped steel receiver and an adjustable black synthetic stock, so a smaller-framed hunter or a younger shooter gets a rifle that shoulders naturally instead of one they have to grow into.
Chambered in .22-250 Remington, this is a flat-shooting varmint and predator cartridge that turns a light rifle into a genuinely useful coyote and prairie dog tool. The 5+1 magazine keeps follow-up shots close at hand, and the muzzle comes threaded from the factory for a brake or suppressor.
Weatherby Vanguard Compact 22-250 Barrel and Action
Every Vanguard barrel is cold hammer forged and finished in a bead-blasted matte blue that cuts glare in open country. The #1 contour keeps weight down at roughly 6.5 pounds, which matters on a long walk-in, and the threaded muzzle lets you add a can without sending the rifle out for gunsmith work.
The action underneath is the same one Weatherby backs with a sub-MOA guarantee: a fully enclosed bolt sleeve, a fluted bolt body, and a three-position safety that lets you unload with the striker blocked. The receiver ships drilled and tapped, so mounting a varmint scope is a bases-and-rings job and nothing more.
Stock, Trigger and Fit
The injection-molded composite stock is the reason this rifle exists. A removable elongated spacer takes length of pull from 12.5 inches out to 13 5/8 inches, so the same rifle can serve a 12-year-old on their first hunt and the same shooter five years later. Molded checkering on the grip and forend keeps control in wet weather.
Feeding the stock is a two-stage adjustable match-quality trigger that breaks cleanly and can be tuned down to about 2.5 pounds. On a varmint rifle that trigger is what separates a hit at 300 yards from a near miss, and it comes standard rather than as an aftermarket upgrade.
Specifications
- Model: Vanguard Synthetic Compact
- Manufacturer part number: VYT222RR0T
- Caliber: .22-250 Remington
- Capacity: 5+1
- Barrel length: 20 in.
- Barrel contour: #1, cold hammer forged
- Muzzle: threaded
- Action: bolt action
- Receiver: matte blued steel, drilled and tapped
- Stock: black adjustable synthetic
- Length of pull: 12.5 in. to 13.625 in.
- Trigger: two-stage adjustable match quality
- Safety: three-position
- UPC: 747115456512
Why Buyers Choose the Weatherby Vanguard Compact 22-250
Most compact rifles are built down to a price and feel like it. This one is a standard Vanguard with a shorter barrel and a stock that adjusts, which means the accuracy guarantee, the trigger and the action are identical to the full-size gun. You give up a little velocity to the 20-inch barrel and gain a rifle that carries better and points faster in thick cover.
The threaded muzzle is the other quiet advantage. Suppressed .22-250 on a light bolt gun is about as pleasant as centerfire varmint shooting gets, and having the threads cut at the factory saves both money and turnaround time.
Who Should Buy It
This rifle fits three shooters especially well: the parent setting up a first centerfire for a growing kid, the smaller-framed adult who has spent years fighting a 13.5-inch length of pull, and the predator hunter who wants a truck rifle that is short, light and quiet under a suppressor.
It is also a sensible do-everything varmint rig. Load lighter bullets for prairie dogs, step up to 55 or 60 grain for coyotes, and the same rifle covers both without a scope change.
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