Anybody here have a good source for 250 Savage ammo? I've been to four stores including Bass Pro and Gander Mountain here in Houston with no luck. Also, it appears the online guys are out of stock.

I could understand it if I was looking for 223 ammo but 250 Savage???

Its those damn 99 assault rifles!!

That reminds me, anybody know where I can get a collapsible stock for my 99?

only about 20 boxes, but not for sale

Tsk, Tsk, I thought we Texans were the braggerts.

Fall on your 99 hard enough and the butt stock will be collapsible........

Oh, that's cold!

just saw this last night.250 dies and brass

http://minneapolis.craigslist.org/dak/spo/3571832074.html

.250-3000 brass and ammunition is/has been a batch-produced "seasonal" item for beaucoup years. Certain times of the year everyone seems to have it and other times it can't be had even if your life depended on it. Loaded ammunition has been harder to find than unprimed brass for many years.

Either stick some WTB ads out there or take up handloading.

And if you handload, the brass supply is easy: Neck up .22-250 brass, which is normally very available and better quality than most factory .250 Savage brass anyway.

Except the datum on .22-250 brass is 0.115" longer than that of .250-3000 brass.

I'm looking at the SAAMI drawings and I don't see that difference.

Head to shoulder datum for the 250-3000 is 1.5792", where the 22-250 has 1.578".

You are correct. My Hornady book has a misleading dimension listed, but my other manuals show the two cases as much closer. Even so, I've accumulated enough .250-3000 brass over the past twenty years or so that I'm unlikely to have a need to neck up or form from something else.

I am glad to see this correction. Don't want to blow up my 99s with necked up 22-250 brass.

Easy enough to get 250-3000 brass that I wouldn't bother necking stuff up. Don't like headstamps that don't match the cartridge, but that's probably just me.

You might try Wisconsin Cartridge. Their service is usually quick.

I like to do a bit of accuracy work with my tuned up Rem 700 Classic in 250. You can pretty much take it to the bank that Lapua 22-250 brass is noticeably better made than anything domestic stamped 250-3000.

250-3000 1.5792" 22-250 1.575",from drawings P.O.Ackley gave me in 1981 when he rechambered my 250 to AI

Thank you Joe for reminding me of Wisconsin Cartridges. I just ordered what appeared to be all they had in stock (60 rounds). - T.S.

just purchased 5 boxes of 250-3000 from Wisconsin Cartridge at under $30. 100 gr. groups at 1 to 11/2" in my 99A-E at 100 yds.

Thanks for the info. Yes, apparently they were not out of ammo. For some odd reason the website was limiting the amounts I could purchase at one time. Just ordered another 100 rounds.