There is an obscure reference to Charles Newton having designed the .300 Savage. I have seen it in a circular enticing investors in the Leverbolt Rifle Co of about 1927. Anyway, I saw this in black and white and there is no mistaking it. iIused to collect Newton rifles and had most of the catalogs and nearly all of the paper stuff his companies put out from 1914- to the end in the late 1920s. The first time I ran into this little nugget of cartridge history, I had to wonder if I was the only guy to have ever noticed this.
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..."
Well dang... just saw that the Leverbolt Rifle Co was Charles Newton's own company, his last try at firearms.
If his own company's flyer says he produced the 300 Savage cartridge, that's pretty convincing evidence. Awesome!
