History, nostalgia, or genuine usefulness are the only reasons one needs to want or love a given rifle/round. The little 250 Savage fills all three of those checkboxes in spades.
May it live forever.
Amen, Rocky. From my grandfather's 99 through a 700 Classic and a Dakota Alpine, with a side trip to a .250AI in a Model 70 compact classic, the little round is just right. And from the 700, 75gr V-max run at 3415fps and 100gr Hornadys do 3003, with sub-minute of groundhog accuracy to well past 300yds in both loads. As my Dad said about the 99, "This gun doesn't go 'bang!' It goes 'meat!'" and so do it's stable mates.
"Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing." Robert E. Howard
