Savage has started to chamber the 250 Savage (or 250-3000 if you will) again in it's line of fantasic yet slighty fugly bolt actions. Not to mention the recent special addition Ruger SS International which too could be considered slightly ugly (just the mix of stainless and mannlicher doesn't work for me, other than that the Ruger's are beautiful heavy trigger pulling wonders of the centre fire world). The cartridge has been long surpased but once held the title of the fastest production round (hense the slightly out of place 3000 in it's original marketing-based calling). It made it's start in the Savage model 1920, which is a rocking lightweight rifle for the time. Some say it was the first bolt action rifle made by an american manufacture with no connection what so ever to a military action or offering. Then in the ever so popular and well deserved Savage 1899.
So the history runs deep fellas and it doesn't stop there. The round was invented by Charles Newton who at the time would be in the same class as the likes of Paul Mauser, and John Browning. Well in the same class if financial success wasn't a factor, but that poor yank made some cool @ss rifles. Have you seen the lever bolt design?
The talk of a new Savage 99 being produced will most likely give the little quarter bore a boast in popularity. In short action chamberings it's a pretty solid quarter bore. The 257 bob and 25-06 seem to be a little more popular, both of which require a long action which isn't in the cards for the beautiful hammerless lever actions that's touched the hearts of so many.
In my mind it's a greater cartridge than the 30-30 (based on preference mostly so don't get all pissy) yet designed for a different purpose. But the 30-30 is to the lever action what 9.3 x74R (maybe a bad comparison) is to the express rifle and everyone loves their 94's, Marlin's and I guess Mossbergs? So that little slow 30 lives on, and with the invent of those funny red tips offerings from the great folks over at Hornady it got a surge in velocity and few extra yards just past its 110th birthday. But this isn't about the 30-30.
Whether people believe it to be dead, or not to be dead. I hope the little guy hangs on, as most of our current popular cartridges have no storie, no identify, and nothing interesting at all. Do you think someone will have a long winded response like this in 80 years when making reference to a winchester short mag?
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