bought my daughter a model 99 need bullet and powder recomadations
thanks
wayne

I would go with H414, or H4895 and stay 2 grs. under book max with anything...The Savage 99 is a favorite of mine and I have 2 in 308 and 1 250-3000...It will allow brass to stretch a bit and may need trimming each load for the most part..Also I highly recommend low base dies and/or full length resizing every time.....

The 250 is an outstanding cartridge and always seemed to kill way out of sinc with its balistics...I have shot a number of elk with it in my early days and if you stick a 100 or 117 gr. bullet in the heart/lung area within 200 yards they make few tracks, and its deadly on deer......

In factory rounds the 100 gr. Silvertip always impressed me as a killer....

Ditto to what Ray said.

I would only add that the Rem FL is also quite a killer. I've had a half dozen or so 250-3000s, all bolt guns, and it is easily in my top three favorite rounds.

I've had excellent results with H414/W760, Re15, Re19, and H4831sc, the last two for the 117-120s. I've also used IMR4320 with good results. If I were starting out, I'd go with Re15, it has been the most coopertative powder for me across the 100-120 bullet range, usually giving top accuracy and good (but not necessarily top) velocity.

It is an outstanding round, and has perform flawlessly for me on deer and black bear.

Good luck.

My savage is more accurate with 87 grain bullets over 100's. Lots of powders work well, what do you have? I did work up loads using Ramshot Big Game and you can use RL-15 starting loads. My best accuracy load was 36.5 grains but work up with caution. Sierra for varmints and Hornady for deer.

for my guns i currently reload i have: varget, h1000, imr4064, reloader 22, and another imr. can 99 beloaded with pointed bullets?

As Atkinson says, H414 is an excellent powder in the .250 Savage.

One caution: The early, Savage-made .250's have 1/14" twists, and will only stabilize 87-grain and short, blunt 100-grain bullets. Measure your rifling twist rate before choosing bullets. If it is 1/10", everything will be OK, and long, pointed ballistically efficient bullets can be used as well as the RN or blunt shaped ones.

Of the powders you list, I would probably use IMR4064 or Varget as my first choices. Yep, pointed is normal for this rifle.

Old post but a big fan of 250-3000 sav model 99..

I use 87 gr Speer bullets,#3031 powder from 32/33 grs ,cci200,rem cases.overall length is 2.510..

Spire point bullets never did good and in any my model 99 guns..
stay with Speer/Sierra..
100 deer have been killed out of my 250-3000 sav ...Most rec 100 gr but from dads experience in depression and mine 87 gr works better on whitetail deer..