250 savage

big 8s in Weakley county · Mar 10, 2009

Does anyone have one i seen some shells for one cheap.

Plateau Hunter · Mar 10, 2009

Yeah I have one-nice classic round. I didn't think there was any cheap ammo around in any caliber now. Plateau Hunter

Tikkabuck · Mar 10, 2009

Super nice old round,wish I had one.

big 8s in Weakley county · Mar 10, 2009

yep seen it at a pawn shop about 10 dollars or less a box for the winchester shells for it

Locksley · Mar 11, 2009

Tikkabuck said:
Super nice old round,wish I had one.

Yes these other rounds are all part of the great family of cartridges built on the 300 savage brass. This case will most likely be with us for a while . To bad the Savage M-99 rifle is no longer avalible to us it was a great cartridge and rifle combo. .

300 Savage
(250-3000)

A new cartridge with a muzzle velocity of 3000 fps wouldn't cause today's hunters to look twice, but can you imagine what a ruckus it would kick up if the fastest commercially produced big game cartridge available was the Winchester 30-30? This was exactly the situation when Savage introduced the .250-3000 cartridge back in 1915. Charles Newton, who designed the cartridge, urged Savage to introduce it with a 100 grain bullet, but in order to to reach the desired velocity of 3000 fps, bullet weight was reduced to 87 grains. Later, a 100 grain factory load was made available, making the .250 a more suitable cartridge for shooting deer.

Even though the .250-3000 took a back seat to the Winchester and Remington 6mm cartridges during the 1950's, there isn't two cents worth of difference in performance between the new and the old. Recent testing of the .250 in a Remington Model 700 Classic and Ruger Model 77 proved once again that when loaded with modern powders, the .250 will push a 100 grain bullet to over 3000 fps. Velocity with the 75 grain bullet averaged 3400 fps. A number of groups fired with both bullets measure less than MOA. Presently, the Ruger Model 77 and Remington's Custom Shop version of the XP-100 are the only factory firearms available in this caliber.

For all around hunting of deer sized game, the 100 grain bullet is hard to beat. Woods hunters who prefer deeper penetration for quartering shots on game usually opted for heavier bullets. The .250-3000 is not at all choosy about the powder it is fed, but the author has had best results with H414, H380, IMR-4320, and W-760.

http://www.reloadbench.com/cartridges/250s.

22-250 Remington
(22 Varminter)
(22 Wotkyns Original Swift)

Charles Newton, who designed the .250-3000 for Savage, is usually credited with being the first to neck down the cartridge for the .248" bullet in the late 1920's. Later, in the 1930's, other wildcatters increased shoulder angle to 28 degrees and loaded the cartridge with .224" bullets. One of those wildcatters was gunsmith Jerry Gebby. For those who wanted a ".22 varminter," as Gebby called it, but didn't handload, custom loads were available from J. Bushnell Smith.

Prior to the introduction of the .222 Remington family of cartridges, the .22-250 enjoyed greater popularity than any other varmint cartridge. All of which makes one wonder why it took Remington until 1965 to domesticate the cartridge. Even today the .22-250 is only second only to the .223 Remington is popularity among varmint shooters.

http://www.reloadbench.com/cartridges/22250.html

The 7.62x51mm NATO is a rifle cartridge developed in the 1940s and 50s as a standard for small arms among NATO countries. Specifications for the 7.62x51mm NATO cartridge are not identical to the commercial .308 Winchester though they are safely interchangeable.

The test program continued for several years, including both the original .30-06 round and a modified .300 Savage (then known as the T65). In the end, the T65 demonstrated power roughly equal to the original .30-06, firing a 147-grain bullet at 2,750 feet per second (840 m/s) but was approximately .5 inches shorter. The eventual result of this competition was the T44.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/7.62%C3%9751_NATO

luke · Mar 11, 2009

I got one. It is a lever action. It even tells you how many bullets are in the gun. My grandfather loaned a guy some money to go to Alaska. The guy told him to hold the guy until he returned. He was killed in a plane crash while in Alaska. Thats how I got the gun. I would love to have some cheap bullets for it.

big 8s in Weakley county · Mar 11, 2009

if you want i will try and find out how much a box they are for sure and let you know you just pay for shipping and the bullets and i will go get them