Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Savage Collectors “The Spiteful Crack of the .250-3000”

Good article. Couple things..

1) Creator of the 250-3000. We have a contemporary account from one of the early 1914 testers of the 250-3000 that it was Charles Newton who thought up the concept and created a long action prototype, and Savage engineer Charles Nelson who created the short action final version.

2) What the heck is this? "re-introduced straight-grip 99F which appeared briefly during the early 70's" ???. I presume he means the 99A? This is odd, considering the pictures all show a 99A, and all he had to do was read the model off the barrel.

Wonder if the rifle he viewed as a kid was like this? It's a 1941 99EG in 250-3000 with period Stith and Lyman Alaskan.. That'd be a good article to print out and save with this rifle.