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I built mine with a Savage Axis rifle (originally a 243) and a E.R. Shaw barrel from MidwayUSA. The barrel cost me $137, if memory serves. Barrel wrench and headspace gauge from Midway also. I had to buy a 22-250 magazine for the rifle to feed. Under $700 for everything, and it shoots like a dream. I put together another Axis in 257 Roberts with another Shaw barrel which I ordered from Shaw. It cost me something over $300. It's another great shooting rifle.

The 250 Savage with its 24" barrel will give a 100 grain bullet 3,000 fps without pressure pains. It makes a good woodchuck rifle with a 75 grain VMAX at 3,350 fps, too. I can't say enough good things about my Shaw barrels.

The Remington Custom shop built some 250 Savage Model 7's that are around. Very nice, light rifles that shoot pretty well.

Got my late ,friends, 1903 Rock Island custom Springfield, 250 Savage, nice old rifle. Neat to have his old rifle.
Shoots pretty well.

I love the 250 Savage, and used to have one in a Tang Safety Ruger 77 RSI. I think it's the lightest-kicking, all-around deer-capable round out there.

Personally, if I wanted to go to a 250 ai, I'd get a 6.5 Creeedmoor. I think the 250/3000 is "just right" as is.

Were I building one I'd fine a used Kimber 84M (blued/walnut) and do a rebarrel. Or a Kimber MT and do likewise.

start with a rem mtn rifle synthetic stock (non-dbm) and rebarrel mtn rifle contour 22 inches. light handy easy.

I'd either rebarrel a Kimber 84M like Brad mentions, or do the same with a Remington M7 CDL, but with a standard 700 sporter contour at 20".

There is a price to be paid for a short barrel. A friend had a stainless Remington Model Seven rebarreled into a 250 Savage with a 1 in 10" twist factory contour 20" barrel, just like the one from the factory. It was done by a benchrest gunsmith (now retired, unfortunately) using a Hart barrel. He asked me to break in the barrel and work up some loads for him. I did, and it shot very nicely. However, velocities were quite a bit slower than my Savage Axis with 24" E.R. Shaw barrel. I would have to look up my records to say how much slower. Some years ago I had a Remington 700 BDL rebarreled to 250 A.I. The barrel was 23" long, and it was also very accurate. I sold it a while back....don't ask why. Rifle loonies do strange things. I guess it I were to have a rifle made up with a short barrel I would make it a 250 A.I. or a 250 Souper, the 308 case necked down to .257, basically a shorter Roberts.

As you might have noticed, I'm a bit of a 25 caliber junkie. I started with the 25-06 and went down in case capacity over the years. I have owned several 250s, a 250 A.I., several 257 Roberts, and a 257 Roberts A.I. as well. As I get older and more feeble I enjoy mild cartridges all the more.

Nit picking aside, it would be hard to find a better light kicking, light weight, handy deer rifle than the Model Seven I described above. I think he had a 2-7x Leupold compact scope on it. I can look up my notes if anyone is interested.

Do you guys think it's less expensive to buy a used rifle and re barrel it vs going with the component parts? I've been looking on GI and a used Remington is $600+ and you still need the barrel. This might be the way to go as a factory chambered 250 is hard to find unless you go to a Cooper.

I've got a pair of 250s, along with my 257 Roberts they are my favorite deer rifles.
A 1953 built(same as me)M99R Savage. The slow twist hampers it a little, but the short Speer Hot Core 100gr spitzer works well enough. I've worked up loads with the Speer Hot Core 87 gr spitzer and the TNT 87hp that share the same sight setting, so that's what it stays sighted at. I've taken several whitetails with it and had no surprises.

A Ruger M77 Tang Safety 250-3000 is slightly more accurate and shoots a wider array of bullet weights with the 1-10 twist. This one does very well with 75 Sierra hps or 87 Speer TNT. So far I've found nothing in the 100 gr category that does better than the Hornady Interlock. On game or paper, it just works.

This mature 161" buck last year found out just how well it works, stumbled less than 30 yards after a quartering to shoulder shot at 150 yards.

This is a good idea. Plus, the 250AI is wicked cool!!

Waiting on my 250AI to come back from Manners. The barrel inlet was not what I specified. I sent the stock and all the metal to them to inlet for it.

250AI on Rem SS SA with 22" Rock #2 contour - 1" shank. Manners EH-8. Should be a fun one.

Life is easy.

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my 2 cents: "Rem Mod 7 stainless, PacNor sporter barrel in 250AI, MPI liteweight stock (under 1 lb). Leupold 3x9 compact...hard to beat in my book. Weighs under six pounds and a dream to carry and shoot. I wouldn't shy away from the Ackley either. Mine shoots factory and handloads tighter than I can and it can be loaded pretty stout if one wishes to do so.

That 250 Remington Classic should be a contender too. A new stock if you like and you should have a real sweet varmint shooter.
Good luck.

You should be able to beat your $3000 fear by a good amount easily. I had a 77 Ruger varmint stainless laminate in 22 250 that had the land erosion. Had $400 in the gun, was a bit less than $600 to put on a 250AI Shilen varmint contour 26" stainless barrel, 1:10 twist, and a little work on the factory trigger. Shoots 117 gr bergers better than I can point it.

I went from having a worthless $400 rifle - a bit my fault that I bought the gun with a shot out barrel that didn't really group anything, it patterned like a shot gun. All hands off by me, smith did all the work to put the 250 AI on it, and I really didn't intend to keep it very long because the bolt is on the wrong side for me. But I find it hard to part with now.

Have you thought about a Cooper built the way you want it, staying in your budget? I have a beautiful Cooper .250 that is my main deer rifle. I think it would have been hard to have one built any better for the same price.

I have considered a Cooper and I might go that way. I have three Varmint Extremes and each one is a tack driver.

I've had two .250 Savage rifles, only have one now. Sold the other when I needed money in 2016 after breaking my leg in 2015 and being out of work for almost 6 months.

The one I still have is a Kevin Weaver built .250 Savage on a Charles Daly Mini action. I paid $900 for it without the Zeiss scope pictured. I put VX1 2-7 LRD on it and have a load worked up for it with 87 grain Speer bullets but haven't taken any game with it. It isn't without a couple of issues, number one is I'm limited to spitzer bullets under 100 grains due to magazine constraints. Number two is that I can only hold two cartridges in the magazine, and number three the bolt handle is too small for my tastes. However, I can live with these minor issues, but it's probably what holds me back from seriously hunting with this rifle.







The one I sold was a Stevens 200 staggerfeed rifle that I rebarrelled with a Shaw barrel off of Midway. I also added a Northland Shooters Supply tuned 3 screw trigger, Savage alloy trigger guard, Sharpshooter Supply competition trigger, B&C Carbelite stock, and Vortex Viper 2-7X32 scope. I had about $800 all together in the rifle as I got most of it used, and the Shaw barrel with a discount code. I wish I had been able to keep this one as well, but I sold it to buy a camera lens for my wife's birthday.

I've got a 250-3000 Savage 99 and a 22-250 Savage 14. I wouldn't trade the 99 for a boatload of 14's

I would consider a Montana Rifle action or complete build. A mini action would be nice like Taylorce but it has it's constraints. My favorite is the Savage 99 they mostly shoot well because a long barrel tenon is screwed into a solid steel action and they are a classic. You can't go wrong with anything in 250 Savage or the AI. A classic Manlicher would suite me just fine.

I have narrowed it down to three options A) Cooper, B) find a action and do a build with a McMillan stock (ugh I hate synthetic stocks but I love nice wood but at this moment price is a consideration) C) Look for a rifle to rebarrel most likely a Remington or Ruger and reshape the stock as needed.

A full Manlicher stocked rifler is on my to do list but it will most likely be in 6.5X55