Have a 14 year old grand daughter and grandson who want to hunt deer this fall.Wasn't sure what rifle the grand daughter might use. I have a Sav model 11 in 250 so I thought we would give that a try. Worked up a load with Fed 22-250 brass necked up. Used 100 gr Speer hot cores and RL17 powder. Worked up to a near MAX load in MY rifle of 39 grs. DO NOT use this in a Sav 99. This load is grouping around 3/4 inch @ 100yds and recoil is minimal. I think all we are going to need now is a chance.

Snowman, it is very hard to go wrong with the .250 Savage. Hope your grandkids score!

I have a Savage 14. With 87gr I have a nice group with 40.5gr of RL17. I'll take the chrono this weekend.

What say Ray A.
roger

I will never pass an opertunity to praise the 250-3000, I owned a number of Mausers, Win.,Sav 99s mostly..Ive shot the caliber for probably 75 years, I killed a number of elk and a truck load of deer, early on with factory Silver tips and Rem corelokts, both worked on elk and deer. I think all my kids and grand kids started with a 222 and went to a 250-3000..I also found it way better killer than the 243 regardless of the 243s inflated ballistics..For a kid or lady or old man and even a young virle superman, the 250 savage will work and make a believer out of anyone that tries it..I really liked my 18.5 inch barrel Ruger International SS and wood stock but alas some bright young man liked it better than I...

My latest 25 is a 257 Ackley Imp with a 24 inch douglas on a Ruger ultralight I bought just the other day, had a tight chamber so I punched it out to an Ackley..Properly loaded its walking on the heels of a 25-06 regardless of some internet reports by self styled experts that say one only gains 50 FPS..Im getting way more than that..but recoil is past the 250-3000 so for a youngster the 250 is best and will always be my favorite small rifle.

Both my boys started their hunting careers using the 250-3000. They have taken numerous deer, antelope, exotic sheep and axis deer. Light recoil and effective on game. It’s a great little round. Good luck.

My XP-100 with custom .250 barrell will agg in the 0.50s with cast bullets. Using an LBT 90-grain mould and 8.5 grains of AA-5 powder I won a bunch of 1st places in the old Cast Bullet Association postal matches. Used the same pistol to take several Kodiak Island blacktails using Nosler 100-grain BTips too. A great cartridge for light big game.


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I have several 250’s and love the round.

One of them is a custom XP-100 in 250 Savage that I short for years in IHMSA Unlimited class. My load was 33.0 gr of IMR 4064 under. 120gr Nosler Solid Base. With the 36x Luepold scope I used for Los development it was an Consistent sub .5 gun. Every miss I ever had in a match was me and not the gun and it won me a lot of trophies and shoot offs. The other nice thing was the flat trajectory. 4 clicks from chickens to rams.

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Originally posted by richj:
I have a Savage 14. With 87gr I have a nice group with 40.5gr of RL17. I'll take the chrono this weekend.

richi Have you used RL17 in any other 250 sav loads ? It sure works with the 100 gr that I tried.

I didn't have any loaded ammo this weekend so the Savage stayed home. I have a few boxes of 100gr BTSP but I haven't tried them yet.

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Originally posted by snowman:

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Originally posted by richj:
I have a Savage 14. With 87gr I have a nice group with 40.5gr of RL17. I'll take the chrono this weekend.

richi Have you used RL17 in any other 250 sav loads ? It sure works with the 100 gr that I tried.

Love the little .250 Savage, you both should be set for a deer! Here it to hoping the little lady gets a chance to punch her tag.

Great caliber...kills way beyond expectations...everything from mice to moose, the odd cranky Brangus bull, now mostly ground squirrels for me.

I built a 250 AI for my Dad 30 odd years ago...Rem 788 action(orig 22-250), Shilen bbl...used 70-87 gr bullets because he couldn't handle much recoil...I've been using it since he passed...same weight bullets mostly...75 VMAX and SIERRA HP'S for varmints,(~3500 fs with RL17 24" bbl, 2.50" COAL and 100% load density/~50 Kpsi)...85 Nos BT & CT and 87 Horns for larger game(RL17, 2.65" COAL, 99% density, ~49-50 Kpsi, ~3350 fs...100 Nos Part also for larger game (2.70", 95.5% density, a bit over 51 Kpsi and ~3150 fs...all chrono'ed on Oehler 33 from THIS rifle.

There is ALWAYS something smaller and something bigger in this game but the 250-3000 just seem to do it's job without much fuss at the back end and a whole lot of fuss at the other end.

Besides the 250 A.I. is just a kool looking cartridge with it's Ackley 40° shoulder and almost no case taper.

Good Hunting

I have yet to see a 250 that wasn't accurate as all git out..not one in my 84 years of dealing with the caliber on a daily basis I guess...

Ive killed deer, antelope, bear and elk with it growing up and still do on occasions, but mostly Hill country Texas deer and an ocassional mule deer when the nostalgia juices start to flow.

My old 1929 99 Savage Take Down still shoots under a half inch for 3 or 5 or 10 shot groups every time..One of the few rifles I havn't sold or traded over the years..It's a minty gun and with its 1x14 twist it shoots all weights equally ..A very unusual rifle.

I had a 700 Classic that was unbelievably accurate and killed a few w/t deer with it.

My Oberndorf Kurz Mauser in .250/3000, one of three I own, the other two being a Savage 99 and a Remington Model 30:



All three are proven deer slayers.

I envy you for owning one much less three Kurz mauser, they are such nice rifles. I like a rifle fitted to the particular cartridge..

Ray,

I meant to say that I own three .250/3000's, but I also have three other Kurz Mausers, two 8X51's and another in .358 Winchester (!), which will soon become a 6.5X54 Mauser. I already have a .358 and don't need another one.


Bill

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Originally posted by xausa:
Ray,

I meant to say that I own three .250/3000's, but I also have three other Kurz Mausers, two 8X51's and another in .358 Winchester (!), which will soon become a 6.5X54 Mauser. I already have a .358 and don't need another one.


Bill

WOW! Four kurtz Mausers....you are one fortunate fellow!