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I load for everything and thankfully I have enough components. When I had the 38-55 built I bought several boxes of the Winchester cowboy action ammo just for the brass. I've scrounged enough 300 Savage brass to last (mostly in the form of factory ammo) that I have no worries there and just bought 100 new Hornady cases off the classifieds for the 250 Savage.

Pfffft. That's a cakewalk compared to some of the cartridges I shoot. .25-20 Single Shot brass has become a nightmare - a lot of guys (including me) are reduced to making it by swaging .223 brass. Fun to do in a masochistic sort of way. I run away screaming from sweet deals on .25-21, .25-25, .28-30, and .22-15-60 rifles because there's nothing from which to make their brass and I refuse to spend $5-$6+ for single lathe turned examples. .32-40 brass availability has me a bit nervous but I have enough for a while, and even though it can be made from .30-30 brass it ends up a bit short.

This is why I'm glad to see cowboy shooting guys using .32-20... there will always at least be a brass source.

I asked a guy selling boxes of older factory cartridges at the Lakeland gun show if he had any .25-20 or .221 Fireball? His answer was “You’re joking, right?” Guess that he didn’t have any. That stuff has gotten so rare that the factory loaded cartridges are worth more than what ever you were going to shoot with one.

I hunt with a 1951 marlin 336 in .35 Remington, iron sights, using 200 grain Core-Lokts. Black bear, elk, blacktail deer and cougar.It's a great combo for me. Love that rifle.

From the time I started reading hunting magazines at about the age of 10 or 11, I wanted a .257 Roberts, a .35 Whelen & a .375H&H. I have all three (I'm now 71). I also shoot multiple .45-70's. My favorite of which is built on a Siamese Mauser. My collection of rifles include most everything from .22 Hornet to .416 Rigby. The oldies are still the goodies!

The 256 Newton, introduced over 100 years ago, offers the same range of performance potential that the 6.5 CM does, but it is about as unloved and under-appreciated cartridge as you're likely to find.

agree totally with you on the long distance shots, even p.d.'s always stayed around 200-250, I have always been a .270 fan, have owned several, can't hunt any more but still like to shoot paper, mostly savage lever guns pre war, I do have a savage from the custom shop 22-250 1-9, after I received the gun sent to Douglass,for a 6.5x47 lapua, these are both med heavy barrels, the 22-250 is fluted, both threaded, as soon as I get my computer fixed to post pics, will put it up for sale, included will be all the too.s needed to change barres, which is very easy with the savage's vice, block system to hold barrel, wrench ect.

I don't think I saw anybody mention my favorite oldie, the .303 Savage. I have a Savage 99 that has had just enough alteration done to make it have very little collector value. I put a good low power scope on it, since it was already drilled & tapped, and it's my favorite old rifle/cartridge combination. It is basically a .30-30 with a lot of pain-in-the-azz built into it because brass is hard to find and it was born a long time even before Wally World. They made it just different enough from the .30-30 so that the brass is almost impossible to make from any other cartridge and sold it to the public with 190 grain bullets to give it much more "punch" than the .30-30. I love it because it's old and it's a real challenge to me. I had a whole collection of nice 99's at one time. If you like to cuss, get you a .22 High Power.

I have a Winchester 1892 in 25-20. I lucked into some brass and dies. I've loaded up some 87gr FNSP just need some warmer weather to get it out and shooting.

The newest round I own a gun for is 22-250.

Ones used any amount are 6.5 Swede, 30-06 and the thoroughly modern 308.



6.5 PRC intrigues, but there is a 264 that's been neglected since it was
purchased in the 90s.

The newest cartridge I shoot is a 7mm-08 but have shot at least 5 deer with 303 Savage 300 and 250. 99's are awesome. Of course I also shoot em with 257 Roberts 30-06 35 Rem 6.5x55 and 30-40Krag. When all is said and done I always grab my 303 first.

The newest cartridge I shoot is a 7mm-08 but have shot at least 5 deer with 303 Savage 300 and 250. 99's are awesome. Of course I also shoot em with 257 Roberts 30-06 35 Rem 6.5x55 and 30-40Krag. When all is said and done I always grab my 303 first.

I may be the oddest ball in the rack, but one of my favorite rifles to hunt with around here is my Savage 99 .303 Savage. It's a .30-30 copy or vise versa but Savage who was a marketing genius sold it with 190 grain bullets which could handle far larger game than the .30-30. We all know that was total BS. Mine is a old Model 99 in perfect shooting shape with a good bore and it's very accurate. It has really very little collector value since it was drilled for a scope (among other things) when I got it. I have a nice low power scope on it and it's my 150 yard deer rifle. The fun part is that it's challenging since you have to make ammo. for it yourself. Wallyworld in Hondo, Texas is out of stock for .303 Savage ammo. It's not real easy even to find components. The problem with all these old cartridges is that everyone has to soup them up. A 99 can shoot a pointed round so load it to the gills. I've tried that even with other calibers and it doesn't work. Load it up to .30-30 velocities with a 170 gr. .308" flatnose .30-30 bullet or the 190 gr. Barnes Original, if you can find them, and it shoots lights out. Wish I could find some of the 190 originals that I could trade somone out of. I just love old stuff like this!

BCR has the Barnes Original 190s in stock. I picked up a couple hundred about a month ago to play with in my 303 Sav.

https://www.bluecollarreloading.com/collections/barnes-bullets?page=2

Regarding the 303 in a savage 99, back around 1963 or so my dad took me on a guided whitetail hunt in potter County, PA. our guide/outfitter was a man named Lonnie Long. We slept in his house and his rifle was a old, beat to hell savage 99 in 303 savage. I was just a kid but all these years later I remember his name and rifle. He told me he'd lost count of all the deer his rifle had taken.

The .303 Savage is a cartridge I greatly enjoy and the 99H carbine is a joy for hunting. I've only used flat nosed, 190 grain cast bullets somewhere in the neighborhood of 1800 fps. Hope this coming season it will put a buck in the freezer! The sling has been removed.

Another old duty round, I’ve killed everything from gophers to grizzlies with it, 25-35 Winchester…

A classic cartridge in a new rifle the 300 Savage

We have several firearms using cartridges dating back into the 1800’s…..but, my “only” hunting cartridge is a relative newcomer @ only 111 years old! memtb