Anyone have any experience with a Savage in 300WSM?
How does it shoot and with what?
I saw one fairly cheap in a local shop.

I have two rifles -not Savages - in the 300 WSM and I thoroughly enjoy that cartridge. In my rifles it is more accurate than the 300 WM. The problem with the WSMs is the Rick Jamison lawsuit has turned many manufacturers away from those cartridges. If you reload, I highly recommend the 300 WSM. If you don't, ammo can be very expensive, and might become scarce

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Originally posted by hoghunting:
The problem with the WSMs is the Rick Jamison lawsuit has turned many manufacturers away from those cartridges.

What manufactures have turned away from the 300WSM except Ruger???

Browning, Savage, Tikka, Sako, Kimber, Howa, Remington Just to name a few, all chamber rifles in 300WSM.

Could you please help with a list of manufactures that no longer chamber in the WSM's because of Rick Jamison's lawsuit.

Thanks.

The WSM's appear to be either love them or hate them. I personally love them, same velocity as the 300WM with less recoil, and the inherent accuracy of a short-fat cartridge. I recently bought one in a Sako 85, VERY accurate; 1.5 inches at 200 meters, and more to the point, isn't picky about ammo.

Recently, there seems to sort of a "the short mags suck LOL"

I shoot a model 11 Savage in 300 WSM. Traded for it used at a gunshow. With 65 grains of H4350, CCI 250 primer, Win case and 180 grain Nosler Accubond it will shoot 1/2 moa.It's the best shooting big game rifle I own (my .223 varmint rifle might shoot a little better depending on the day).

It's not a .300 WSM, but my Savage .270 WSM shoots Accubonds over Magpro powder into .25" groups. I love my Savage !!!!

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Anyone have any experience with a Savage in 300WSM?
How does it shoot and with what?

I owned one for a while. It had the cheap synthetic stock with no recoil pad and the overall weight was pretty light. It just plain kicked from a bench. It kicked more than any 300 win mag I've ever owned or shot but, those had better stocks and recoil pads. Must have had alot to do with the junk stock as most of the other brands of factory rifles chambered in the 300WSM don't seem to have near the percieved recoil as that of the cheap Savage I owned. It was definitely in need of a leupold scope for the extra eye relief as I tried a Burris FF and a Bushnell Elite and got smacked quite a few times

It shot well with 180 NBTs over R22, 165 Speer Hot Cores over R22, and 150 NABs over H4831.

Good Luck

Reloader

I have the 300WSM with the synthetic stock and hard rubber recoil pad (I changed it to a Deccelerator) that I bought when the left handed models first came out.

It will shoot three different bullets sub MOA with the Hornady 180 grain Interlocks and H4831SC doing the best.

The only issue is that with a 3x9 Leupold on top the gun barely weighs 8 Lbs and recoil is so fast it's almost vicious.

I'm swapping the stock, barrel and bolthead out and converting it to a heavy barrel 22.250 because I don't shoot it enough. I have a 7 Mag and 375 H&H that I enjoy shooting more.