|
|
Joined: Oct 2009
Posts: 50
Campfire Greenhorn
|
OP
Campfire Greenhorn
Joined: Oct 2009
Posts: 50 |
I'm looking to add to my '99 shooters and trying to decide on whether I want a 22 HP or a 250-3000 next. I've got a 303, a 30-30, a 300 savage and a 243. All are good shooters. I'm leaning towards the 22 HP but I am concerned about the reloading aspect. I reload all the others to my 100 yard satisfaction and I don't really hunt, maybe 1 or 2 times a year, mostly shoot paper for the hell of it. What would be your advice? Just want the other Savage calibers, so what would be the most fun?
"we have met the enemy and it is us," said Pogo
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Mar 2002
Posts: 12,736
Campfire Outfitter
|
Campfire Outfitter
Joined: Mar 2002
Posts: 12,736 |
I'd get the .250-3000 first and move the 22HP down the list. Much easier to load for since brass and bullets are in supply. 22HP brass and bullets are both hard to find.
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Feb 2013
Posts: 7,766 Likes: 2
Campfire Outfitter
|
|
Campfire Outfitter
Joined: Feb 2013
Posts: 7,766 Likes: 2 |
I respect light foots insight immensely.
But what is the Ballistic difference between a 250/3000 and the 243 you already own for target shooting?
What does a 22 hp bring to the table?.... the others do not have?
"Shoot low sheriff, I think he's riding a shetland!" B. Wills
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Sep 2009
Posts: 7,359
Campfire Tracker
|
|
Campfire Tracker
Joined: Sep 2009
Posts: 7,359 |
I'd get the .250-3000 first and move the 22HP down the list. Much easier to load for since brass and bullets are in supply. 22HP brass and bullets are both hard to find. I generally agree. In this day and age the HP is a bit more advanced in requiring your time, attention and acquisition of components. Though it does seem to be enjoying a degree of popularity at the moment on this forum so you will find plenty of help and support here. If for paper punching, then my perspective could be different. Get the 99 that's the rarest bird for you and be done with that problem.
"The universal aptitude for ineptitude makes any human accomplishment an incredible miracle." John Stapp - "Stapp's Law"
"Klaatu barada nikto"
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Mar 2002
Posts: 14,600
Campfire Outfitter
|
|
Campfire Outfitter
Joined: Mar 2002
Posts: 14,600 |
Given the calibers you have accumulated and that you are a reloader, I think you will own both before long. Watch for both. Buy the best you can in your price range or in the model/style you are interested in. Enjoy!
Savage...never say "never".
Rick...
Join the NRA...together we stand, divided we fall!
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Oct 2013
Posts: 2,044
Campfire Regular
|
|
Campfire Regular
Joined: Oct 2013
Posts: 2,044 |
Given the calibers you have accumulated and that you are a reloader, I think you will own both before long. Watch for both. Buy the best you can in your price range or in the model/style you are interested in. Enjoy!
+1
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Nov 2005
Posts: 23,179 Likes: 13
Campfire Ranger
|
|
Campfire Ranger
Joined: Nov 2005
Posts: 23,179 Likes: 13 |
The .22 HP is no harder to load for than any other cartridge. I will acquiesce to the bullets being hard to find, but brass is easy; just run a .25-35 case into the sizing die and Bob's your uncle, a HP case. .25-35's are pretty common once again.
"You can lead a man to logic, but you cannot make him think." Joe Harz
"Always certain, often right." Keith McCafferty
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Aug 2017
Posts: 832
Campfire Regular
|
|
Campfire Regular
Joined: Aug 2017
Posts: 832 |
.250 Savage is one of my most accurate rifles, and mine was re-bored from a 22 Hi Power back sometime in the 50s! If you go the 22 HP route, and don't want to make your own brass, there is a sale for Norma brass right now. Still some in stock. https://www.midsouthshooterssupply....52-r-unprimed-brass-rifle-brass-25-count
Last edited by Sportsdad60; 02/25/18.
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Apr 2013
Posts: 14,050 Likes: 2
Campfire Outfitter
|
|
Campfire Outfitter
Joined: Apr 2013
Posts: 14,050 Likes: 2 |
the consolidation of the states into one vast republic, sure to be aggressive abroad and despotic at home, will be the certain precursor of that ruin which has overwhelmed all those that have preceded. Robert E Lee
~Molɔ̀ːn Labé Skýla~
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Feb 2008
Posts: 11,700 Likes: 1
Campfire Outfitter
|
|
Campfire Outfitter
Joined: Feb 2008
Posts: 11,700 Likes: 1 |
Enablers........  
____________________________________________________________
Dying gets closer every day
Lloyd McCarter and the Honky Tonk Revival
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Jul 2003
Posts: 1,741
Campfire Regular
|
|
Campfire Regular
Joined: Jul 2003
Posts: 1,741 |
buy which ever comes along first .
plab
Gotta love them 303's
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: May 2011
Posts: 56,414 Likes: 11
Campfire Kahuna
|
|
Campfire Kahuna
Joined: May 2011
Posts: 56,414 Likes: 11 |
I was thinking this thread was some kind of a joke. Or one a them rhetorical type questions.  Which one should I buy? Why ask us, buy em all!
Last edited by Fireball2; 02/25/18.
_______________________________________________________
An 8 dollar driveway boy living in a T-111 shack
LOL
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Jan 2004
Posts: 12,641
Campfire Outfitter
|
Campfire Outfitter
Joined: Jan 2004
Posts: 12,641 |
I'm looking to add to my '99 shooters and trying to decide on whether I want a 22 HP or a 250-3000 next. I've got a 303, a 30-30, a 300 savage and a 243. All are good shooters. I'm leaning towards the 22 HP but I am concerned about the reloading aspect. I reload all the others to my 100 yard satisfaction and I don't really hunt, maybe 1 or 2 times a year, mostly shoot paper for the hell of it. What would be your advice? Just want the other Savage calibers, so what would be the most fun? I remember back in 2011 I was faced with that very same predicament. I had a 30-30 T in near mint shape and a .303 Speigle Special (aka salesman sample) both for $1500 each and I couldn't decide. A couple other members here goaded me and kept saying "buy 'em both". SO I DID. I'm tellin' ya. You only live once. Buy both of them and don't look back. Since that day, I've bought 3 and 4 at a time.
NRA Endowment Life Member (and proud of it)
Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.
Wise men speak because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something. - Plato
Deuteronomy 22:5
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Apr 2011
Posts: 5,195
Campfire Tracker
|
|
Campfire Tracker
Joined: Apr 2011
Posts: 5,195 |
Buy both and be done with it. I can't believe Gary didn't tell you to start casting for the HP. For punching paper you don't need smokin loads.
I'm not greedy, I just want one of each.
Remember Ira Hayes
JoeMartin
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Nov 2005
Posts: 23,179 Likes: 13
Campfire Ranger
|
|
Campfire Ranger
Joined: Nov 2005
Posts: 23,179 Likes: 13 |
Time and place for everything, Joe! I preached about cast bullets 'til I was blue in the face. Now I'll just quietly sit in the corner. Look at the .22HP this way: you'll be the only kid on the block with one, and will get a lot of puzzled looks from the hoi poloi at the gun range!
"You can lead a man to logic, but you cannot make him think." Joe Harz
"Always certain, often right." Keith McCafferty
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Sep 2005
Posts: 17,769 Likes: 4
Campfire Ranger
|
|
Campfire Ranger
Joined: Sep 2005
Posts: 17,769 Likes: 4 |
You gotta have all the Savage Cals, dont ya Know! Cuz of Gary I even bought a 22HP mold set, someday hope to cast some! LBK that was a Great Day! I rember it well!
Last edited by saddlering; 02/25/18.
Deer Camp! about as good as it gets!
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Oct 2011
Posts: 6,529 Likes: 1
Campfire Tracker
|
|
Campfire Tracker
Joined: Oct 2011
Posts: 6,529 Likes: 1 |
Your have to buy both so you can get to work on your Savage Grand Slam. That's a big game animal with each of the 4 Savage calibers. David
wyo1895 With Savage never say never. For a copy of my book on engraved Savage lever actions rifles send a check for $80 to; David Royal, p.o. box 1271, Pinedale, Wy., 82941. I will sign and inscribe the book for you. [email protected]
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Oct 2009
Posts: 50
Campfire Greenhorn
|
|
OP
Campfire Greenhorn
Joined: Oct 2009
Posts: 50 |
I have a 22HP that I'm waiting to see and am pre-comitted to it from a private collection, but the 250-3000, is much harder to find and I've been looking throughout NY state. Availability and location make it difficult to buy what I want first. I watch the gun auctions for the 250, but they are hard to actually see before buying.
i'm not looking for collector quality, just a good shooter class gun. I'm a little gun-shy, pardon the pun, about buying on from out of state.
"we have met the enemy and it is us," said Pogo
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Oct 2009
Posts: 7,713 Likes: 1
Campfire Outfitter
|
|
Campfire Outfitter
Joined: Oct 2009
Posts: 7,713 Likes: 1 |
few guys on here might be able to point you to some decient gun stores or have someting themselves,,,, we are ENABLERES.
NORM
There is not enough darkness in all the world to put out the light of even one small candle----Robert Alden .
If it wern't entertaining, I wouldn't keep coming back.------the BigSky
|
|
|
|
|
533 members (10Glocks, 10gaugemag, 007FJ, 1lessdog, 06hunter59, 1badf350, 53 invisible),
10,123
guests, and
1,050
robots. |
|
Key:
Admin,
Global Mod,
Mod
|
|
|
Forums81
Topics1,195,366
Posts18,547,009
Members74,060
| |
Most Online21,066
May 26th, 2024
|
|
|
|
