The 250 and 300 Savage were and are perfect deer rounds at most ranges most people hunt at. It's all been fluff since then. If you hunt bear, fine use a bear round. If more new hunters would use mild, effective rounds that they can shoot and not flinch, maybe license sales would go up as the new hunters actually enjoy the sport. Hunters are voters, so are their kids.
What you say about the 250-3000 and 300 Savage cartridges is true, but if they were really as good as the cognoscente believe, why weren't they more popular, more successful, than they were?
I like both cartridges, particularly the 250-3000, and own a pile of them, but don't shoot them very often.
Bullet design had really breathed new life into classics like the Savage rounds, Much the same reason 9mm has became so much more effective than it was in generations past. Not that they weren't effective in the right hands, they are just more forgiving with todays' selection.
