This is also posted on the Lever Action Forum.

"I may be the last person to know this, but here it is anyway.

Got a call this morning from Graf & Sons. They now have their own special run of .303 Savage brass CURRENTLY IN STOCK NOW. It is boxer primed, of course, and wholesales at $34.99 per 100 pieces (plus shipping).

Anyone who has tried to find brass for their trusty .303 M99 Savage knows that old, fired, American brass has been selling on eBay for $1 per round or more and that Norma, when available, is also $1 per round and up.

This is a really good deal, and I doubt it will last long...I first tried to talk Bob Graf into having it made over two years ago, and have had mine on backorder for a year and a half. Now it is here!

(P.S. - As of day before yesterday, their website was showing it as "Out-of-stock", but their phone call this morning assured me it is now here...)"

AC,

Thanks for the heads up. I just now called to place an order for some. Their website says they are out. I explained this to the lady I spoke with and she checked and said yes, they are out and still waiting. I sure would like to get some, the brass I have is getting real iffy. I backordered some in May with Buffalo Arms, but still haven't received it.

Craigster-

Well now, that is interesting news. They called me especially this morning to let me know it is here. Seems to be a bit of confusion there, eh?

Now I am wondering if mine really IS enroute to me like they said it is. Even more interesting as they wanted to know whether I wanted just the 300 I back-ordered last year, or both that and the 300 I back-ordered this last Saturday...for a total of 600 pieces.

Thanks for the info anyway. Will see what turns up, if anything.

Brown Truck just dropped package from Graf's off at my front door. I ripped 'er open, and YES, VIRGINIA, THERE IS 300 ROUNDS OF BRAND NEW, BOXER PRIMED .303 SAVAGE BRASS IN THERE!!!

THANK YOU BOB GRAF, THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU!!!!

That stuff must have gone through the warehouse like shit through a goose. I called them 2 hours after your original post and they were out and they're still out!

Craigster--

Am sorry to hear that, for your sake. Am happy to hear it for Bob Graf's sake. Too, in the long run maybe it will make him even more willing to order some of the other rare stuff made.

Or maybe this whole shipment was already spoken for on back-orders since it first appeared in his catalog over a year ago.... Wouldn't think so, though, else why would they have offered me 600 rounds of it (fill of BOTH my back-orders)?

Here's hoping for a second run so you can get yours....

Congrats on the .303 Savage brass.
It is great that Graf's supports shooters like that.
EDg

FYI- The Graf's .303 Savage stuff is made by Jamison (NOT Rick Jamison), the new owner of what used to be BELL brass.

That may explain why it sold out so quickly. Not only is it excellent quality, he will reportedly make it in lots as small as 5,000 pieces. So, Bob Graf's first lot may have been a relatively small one.

Hey AC, Are you planning to use it in an old Savage M99, or reforming it?

For meat or paper?

Always good to hear when folks can get the older firearms back into use with known good components.

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Originally posted by Hot Core:
Hey AC, Are you planning to use it in an old Savage M99, or reforming it?

For meat or paper?

Always good to hear when folks can get the older firearms back into use with known good components.

Hi Hot Core. I'm gonna use it in my old Savage M99-TD. For the nonce it will be used on paper. After 8 months post-surgery, my foot is still healing but not yet to the point where I can get out in the woods this year.

I plan to load it with the original .311" diameter C.I.L. 190 gr.RN bullets I have had stashed away for many, many years. Actually, it won't take much sorting out...I've been loading it with those bullets, but in brass I've reformed from .303 British, .30-40 Krag, and .220 Swift. It will be nice to load some rounds where I don't have to go to all that work.

Best wishes, and glad to hear from you again,

AC

Hey AC, One of the first centerfire rifles I got to actually shoot was a M99 in 303Sav. I wasn't too old at that time and remember it well. Had a Phenolic Butt Plate as well as I can remember.

My Father and some of his Hunting buddies were over near the River(Ohio River) getting sighted in on a rather good size tree. All of a sudden, down the tree goes across Patton's Creek.

It was very interesting to me that the Bullets of that time period "might" stay inside a Deer, but go completely through a green tree. I understand it now, but back then it really had me wondering what was going on.

And you "STILL" have a stash of the 190gr-ers! Just amazing to me.

I believe I might still have one box of the old Peters Paper Hulled Shotshells in 00Buckshot from that Era. I shot one of them about 20 years ago into a 7-pointer and cut him a flip as he came running past me as I sat on the ground at the end of a section of woods. His belly looked to be about 6" off the ground(but I feel sure it was higher) as he was stretching it out. It even surprised me the way he went rolling to a stop.

What Powder do you use in it?

I can even "mentally" smell the Cedar lined closet where my Father kept his firearms back then. Huuumm, I know where the very first knife I ever used to skin a Deer with is located. Haven't thought about that in awhile.

You may not be aware that when you kill a Deer in Kentucky, the drag-out is always up hill - in any direction!!!