Originally Posted by gnoahhh
Originally Posted by JIMFORAL
Here's how the text of the Leverbolt's "Special Notice" starts: "Mr. Newton has long been known to riflemen, first as the designer of high power cartridges such as the Savage line of .22 high Power, 250,3000, and .300 Savage, later the .256 Newton, .30 Newton, and .35 Newton..."


Could Newton have designed the cartridge during the heyday of the .22HP and .250-3000 and presented it to Savage who in turn slept on it for a few years?


Didn't Savage stop producing civilian firearms during WW1 and switch to building military firearms? IIRC, they made Lewis machineguns sometime between 1916 and 1919. Newton could have designed the 300 Savage and Savage could have waited until after peace had been reestablished before choosing to introduce it.