Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Savage Collectors 250 won't kill deer, unpopular due to bad reputation????

There was always controversy around any new cartridges and bullets, they weren't any different back then than they are now. Remember that when the 250-3000 came out that it was only 20'ish years since black powder was still king, so there were a LOT of hunters who blamed any deer that ran on the 87gr bullet because that NEVER happened if you used a serious caliber with serious bullets.

And, there surely were bullet failures. Metallurgy and quality control weren't as good back then as now.

But it remained a popular round for a long time. I'd compare it's popularity then to how popular the 243 is now, and the 243 gets many of the same complaints to this day - even here on the campfire.

I think the 100gr bullets made their introduction in the early 30's?