Do you hunt with a .250 Savage?

I used a bullet seldom mentioned any more. Hornady 117 gr RN. Worked very very well with Win 760 in my 1970's era 99A. Killed several deer at ranges from 20 yds to 250. Very very effective.
 
Longwalker said:
I used a bullet seldom mentioned any more. Hornady 117 gr RN. Worked very very well with Win 760 in my 1970's era 99A. Killed several deer at ranges from 20 yds to 250. Very very effective.
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That bullet has worked very well out of the '94 carbine 25-35 I gave my son many years ago. Deer, caribou, and black bear are handled quite nicely with it. Never tried it in the 250 Savage takedown, but am wondering if it might not work in the 1:14 twist? The 100 gr does well.

Ted
 
The 117gr, RN bullet is very "iffy" in 1:14, but does a great job at 1:10. Some older rifles will shoot it well, because it is very short for its weight.
 
I still hunt with mine. Its a 1950s vintage savage 99. Im using a 100gr speer boat tail. The 250 savage is by far my favorite whitetail cartridge.
 
I haven't taken any game with the two .250's I have now; shot just one whitetail with the 1923 takedown I had.
Presently I have a 1947 EG and a new Savage Weather Warrior. Both shoot well, my best groups out of the 99 were a half-MOA using Reloder 15 and 100-grain Core-Lokts. I have been quite lucky, all 3 slow-twist Savages I've had would shoot 100-grain bullets very well.
Boo, what powder do you like with the Accubond? I have never used any powders in the .250 except for Reloder 15 (87 - 100 grain bullets) and H4831 (117 grain roundnose).
 
I haven't taken any game with the two .250's I have now; shot just one whitetail with the 1923 takedown I had.
Presently I have a 1947 EG and a new Savage Weather Warrior. Both shoot well, my best groups out of the 99 were a half-MOA using Reloder 15 and 100-grain Core-Lokts. I have been quite lucky, all 3 slow-twist Savages I've had would shoot 100-grain bullets very well.
Boo, what powder do you like with the Accubond? I have never used any powders in the .250 except for Reloder 15 (87 - 100 grain bullets) and H4831 (117 grain roundnose).

I started a thread similar to this a few years ago.

http://www.canadiangunnutz.com/foru...with-a-250-3000?highlight=hunting .250 Savage
 
In a 99 I had 30grs of IMR 3031 put the old Dominion 100 gr KKSP into one hole. 32.5 gr of the same powder and a 87gr Hornady into 1/2".Worked fine on deer as long as you stayed away from the shoulder.Mine had a 1-14" twist so the shorter ogive with the old Dominion 100gr stabilized .100gr SP's still went around an inch.Harold...........IMR 4895 was also a VG powder with both bullets!
 
I shoot 100gr Hornadys in mine. Very consistant and accurate.

I would try that powder/bullet combo in a 250Savage as well.
 
1899 said:
Looks like most folks, myself included, use this chambering exclusively for deer. I have an itch to load up some modern pressure loads (for bolt action of course) with premium bullets and use it on larger game - like the cow elk draw I have.
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I can give you an insight into hunting moose with a 250 Savage.
During his later years in life I knew a man who had moved his wife and young family onto a bush homestead in the boondocks of central BC, right after WW1. It was after WW2, some thirty years after he had settled on the homestead, that I knew him. In al those years he had fed his family moose meat, which he had shot year around.
His only rifle he ever owned was a Savage 99, in 250/3000 calibre. He claimed to have never wounded a moose, that had got away.
There were always two weights of bullets for it, one the 87 grain, which was supposed to go 3000 fps, thus giving the designation, "250/3000," to the calibre. The most common weight bullet for it was the 100 grain and I believe this was the only weight normally available in most little country stores that catered to the meat hunters.
Looking back, it would seem to me that somewhere in the supply line of CIL Dominion cartridges, was a knowledgeable person who knew what bullets were best for a given cartridge for big game and only this bullet would be distributed to the little country stores that served the hunters.
Thus, only the 100 grain bullet was available for the 250 Savage, the 170 grain bullet for the 30-30, the 160 grain bullet for the 6.5mm, etc.
 
H4831 said:
I can give you an insight into hunting moose with a 250 Savage.
During his later years in life I knew a man who had moved his wife and young family onto a bush homestead in the boondocks of central BC, right after WW1. It was after WW2, some thirty years after he had settled on the homestead, that I knew him. In al those years he had fed his family moose meat, which he had shot year around.
His only rifle he ever owned was a Savage 99, in 250/3000 calibre. He claimed to have never wounded a moose, that had got away.
There were always two weights of bullets for it, one the 87 grain, which was supposed to go 3000 fps, thus giving the designation, "250/3000," to the calibre. The most common weight bullet for it was the 100 grain and I believe this was the only weight normally available in most little country stores that catered to the meat hunters.
Looking back, it would seem to me that somewhere in the supply line of CIL Dominion cartridges, was a knowledgeable person who knew what bullets were best for a given cartridge for big game and only this bullet would be distributed to the little country stores that served the hunters.
Thus, only the 100 grain bullet was available for the 250 Savage, the 170 grain bullet for the 30-30, the 160 grain bullet for the 6.5mm, etc.
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What a different world you experienced in those days...
 


Shot this oddball racked mulie last day of season with my .250 Rem Classic and 100gr Sierra SP......recovered weight 60 grains.Fired 4 shots at him running broadside at 75 yards and at least 3 found the chest but he took it and covered another 75 yards before piling up.One ear is 3/4's torn off from fighting as well as one antler missing. His front end is full of puncture marks from other bucks...a sausage buck as boy he is stinky......Harold
 
Kevan said:
Really ? And what bullet weight are you loading, I'm using H 450 with good results but my supply is getting down and its long discontinued.
The bullets I'm using are mostly 117 - 120 gr.

Sorry for the hi-jack OP..
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Isn't IMR or H 4350 the go to powder for the .257 Roberts?

Nice deer Harold. What kind of sausage recipe do you use for those stinky late season mulies? I avoid hunting them in November as I have had some really, really bad experiences with stankness.
 
I usually hang them a week or better and they were fine for eating.Usually I just bone them and take the trim to a place in town that makes garlic breakfast sausages.I used to make my own but back when I was younger and drank like a loon I put so much garlic in they would hardly freeze! Opening the deep freeze was like being pepper sprayed.Nowadays don't drink and someone else makes the sausage.Getting older and maybe wiser?
 
1899 said:
What a different world you experienced in those days...
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even not that old im pretty sure that the old farts from here have good stories to share ....

5 years ago an old guide telling us the story of the female polar bear that he took in his village with an old rusted 30-30 just the eyes of our southern clients worth everything i may have paid for that story ... those guys were using any kind of mangums in .300s .....

no i wont tell the story when he shot with open sights his caribou and again a 30-30 ... distance cant be disclosed here ....
 
SuperCub said:
IMR4831 works great in my Roberts. Other have said the same.
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I just shot some good groups in my Rem 700 Roberts with IMR 4831, but want to try 4350 to compare. 4350 is a go-to for a lot of shooters. I have always used H4831 or IMR 4831 in my Roberts rifles. And my Ruger in .257 seems a bit fussy.
 
I have 2 rifles chambered in 250 Savage the first is one like Boo's a SS International that Prophit River managed to import. I have tried Boo's load in my rifle with the 110 accubond and the results were very good., the second piece is a lovely savage american model 14 that I had P&D order for me last year. I haven't killed anything but paper with them so far. I have shot in the american some 75gr,87gr,100gr bullets with lots of nice groups not quite as nice as Harolds Rem.
 
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