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What kind of reticle is in the scope? Sometimes it's easier to quarter a larger target than it is to aim at a small point, if the reticle is suitable.

Rodfac,

IF I might make a suggestion for a "brush country" deer-hunting load, try the 170 grain (that is "usual fodder" for the .30-30) cast bullet (in .309 caliber) in front of enough Varget to equal .32-40WCF ballistics. = IF you cast your own bullets, it's REALLY easy on your pocketbook, too.
(Many THOUSANDS of deer were taken by the "old school" .32-40 at about 1400 FPS & deer haven't gotten harder to kill in the 21st Century.)

One of my "pet loads" is a 170 grain GCCB in front of 16 grains of 2400 at about 1800FPS. = That cheap/"easy on the shoulder" load is "A KILLER" on WT & hogs out to 150-200M. = The cast bullet will generally "pass through" a BIG whitetail from most any angle.

BEST WISHES with your .300 SAV. - That particular caliber (out of my Model 760 pump-rifle) is my "go to medicine" for South Texas hunting for WTs, hogs & exotics.

yours, tex

anybody use the enduron powders for 300 savage

Regarding the question by TomS, above, I am shooting the 150 grain Hornady SSTs made for the 300 Savage. I like them. I use a Lee Factory Crimp Die on most of my handloads, especially the 300 Savage. One of my friends from the range, a gent who is now 92, did a lot of deer hunting in Canada in the 1950s. He used his 308 and 358 Winchester rifles (I think they were both Sakos). He loaded 170 grain 30-30 bullets in his 308 and 200 grain 35 Remington bullets in his 358 and killed plenty of whitetails and bears using those bullets as some of his compadres would get drunk and ask him to "fill their tags". He said both loads killed like lightning.

Yep, larger target will help, it's a post reticle. But I'm very happy with the way the gun shoots, great walking around gun, for some of the deer hunting I do.

I have found that 41 grains of reloder 15 give the best accuracy with plenty of knockdown power on Michigan Whitetail deer. Also hot enough for me, 42 grains got a little hard to extract.

With what weight bullet? Huge difference between a 110 grainer and a 180.

Cleaning out Dad's gun room and ran across his old 300 Savage handloads for his 99. 130 gr Hornady over 45 $%#! grains of 748.

When was that ever an approved load?

GE

My Lyman 47th has pressure tested data for 748 in the 300.

130 gr. Hornady SP, 48 grains max, 37,100 CUP.

150 gr. Hornady SP, 45 grains max, 40,100 CUP.

180 gr. Sierra HPBT, 43 grains max, 43,300 CUP.


Later editions lowered things a bit, but 45 under a 130 is still below max.

Thanks MM! The stuff I'd seen was way down to 41 grains.

GE

You're welcome.

Of course we want to be careful, but there is some genuinely anemic 300 Savage data out there.

I have one of the powder profile publications put out by Wolfe probably in the 70s and there is one load in there that is juiced up to 2800-FPS. I always considered that way to warm. Some years back there was a tangle up on this forum with a member (who I haven’t seen in years) wanting to go down the path of making a 300 into a 308. He was hell bent to do the experiment and it didn’t matter telling him it had already been done. Seems to me that fact would have taken some wind out of the sails but he saw the wheels fit for reinvention.

I have a 300 savage in a 99F at a LGS on lay-a-way I have some 150gr Speer FN and SP that I plan to try in it. Rel-15 was one of the powders I was planning on trying. I also have IMR 3031, 4320, 4985, 4064, AA2530, Win 748, AR-Comp, others to try if needed.

I figure the 150gr bullets would work the best, although I have a wide range of bullet weights and styles if needed.

I use the Sierra 150gr Spitzers and 38gr of 4064. Shoots very well.

Joe

I've had excellent accuracy in a 99R 30's DOB rifle with 3031, AL15, and Varget. I do have both 4895's and 4064 around which I've loaded numerous MILSURP rifle's/ammo for, but not the 300 Savage. Just for additional info, I've used 3031, RL15, and Varget with great success in 300 Savage loadings for my two Remington 81's. All 300 Savage loads have been with Speer 150 grain SP's and RN bullets. Have been doing some early loadings with 150 and 160 grain Lee cast bullet loadings, but not enough yet to post anything, but they are good shooters and alot cheaper target shooting than using jacketed bullets.

Now that IMR4320 has been discontinued it looks like I'll be back to IMR4064 or one of the 4895's.

I run IMR powders and in the case of .300 Savage and a lot of my other .30 calibers rifles, IMR 4895. I have laboriously formed these from excessive .308 Winney mixed brass in which I load:

41 Gr. IMR 4895 (.5 Gr. below max in Lymans 45th edition, compressed)
Primer: Remington 9 1/2
Bullet: 150 Gr. Speer flat bottom Spitzers
Cartridge overall length: 2.580

Although I DO NOT have a chrony, these have been VERY accurate rounds for me and knocks a whitetail down right on the spot if placement is accurate. Please don't underestimate the versatility of IMR 4895. This can be an exceptional load in your Savage 99 if you start low and work up, checking pressures.

I settled on 38.0gr. 4064 and Sierra 150 spitzer for a general .300 Savage load long ago. Works well in any rifle I fed with them and is sufficiently low in pressure so as not to compromise case life.

40 grains IMR 4895, 150 grain Nosler ballistic tip or partition. Very accurate in several of my 300's. I've killed an elk and a whitetail with the partition load and a mule deer with the BT load. I get around 1 to 1 1/4" groups at the range with these loads in a 99G, 99K and 99EG 300's.

I'll have to try some H/IMR 4895's and 4064 loads in my 99R in 300 Savage. When I did load up various loads using those three powders it was in my 300 Savage Rem 81's (Loggah coined "Pogo Sticks ) and 3031, Varget, and AL15 gave me better accuracy in those rifles. I've loaded alot of 30/06 for M1 Garand, 03's, 8mm, etc using the 4895's and 4064 for those rifles and are my main go to powder.