Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Savage Collectors Looking for 300 savage brass

Picking up my first Model 99 and I’m a reloader so if anyone has dies or brass for sale or can recommend a place I’m all ears! Also any pet loads? I’d like to do light loads for it for the kids to play with.

I can offer information on available factory loads. The local (to me) Bridgeport Equipment gun department has Remington factory loads in stock. Four boxes on the shelf today. Price was around $37 IIRC. Certainly not cheap but potentially a source or brass if needed. The store I visited was in New Martinsville WV. They have a few stores located in Ohio and WV, as far as I know they do have an online presence and ship.

Hope that info helps,

Rob

Alot of guys have jumped on the Barnes bullet wagon with the 300 Savage. I don't think premium mono bullets are a great improvement in a 300 Savage until a raking shot on a large deer, bear, or elk but otherwise standard cup and core bullets work great.

By coincidence I've got a new to me 300 Savage I need to work up a load for and I happen to have some 110 gr Barnes bullets I'm going to try. I like the light bullets for the reduced recoil and being a Barnes I could whop a bear with it if I ran across one while deer hunting and not worry about the reduced penetration typical with light bullets.

In a deer only scenario, pick a decent bullet and go forth and kill small helpless animals. A Nosler 125 gr Ballistic tip would be great in a 300.

I watch Shooters Pro Shop and pick up blemished Nosler Ballistic Tips for shooting paper. Either just go with a starting load, or if you can find some H4895 then a reduced load is even better. A lot like shooting a 30-30.

I work up loads with BT, then swap in Partitions for hunting loads and just do final tweaks. The two bullets shoot very similarly in most of my guns.

125 TNTs make for good light kicking plinker loads on the cheap. You can still snag the 500 count boxes of those for around $100 now and then.

Around 36gr N130 shoots well with them from mine and the recoil is pretty light. N120 would be even softer shooting, but I haven't messed with that in the 300S. I've had H4198 shoot well with them, too, but that has turned into pure unobtanium, so I no longer use what I have left on plinkers.

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I have ~140 brass, dies, bullets and powder.
PM if interested.

I have a 50 CT bag virgin Remington ( never opened) 300 Savage I'd sell. If you are interested send me a pm
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If I may piggyback a bit to the OP's thread, my buddy John, who some of you may remember as the guy that had a loaded, stuck cartridge blow up on him when he tapped it back out of the chamber with a cleaning rod needs a set of small base dies for two 300's he owns. I've been looking for a used set at my usual haunts w/o luck.

Are any of you forced to use small base dies for reloading your 300?

That's a really solid powder choice, too. 3031 is my backup load for the 130 TTSX if/when my H4198 supply dries up. It shoots well for me with the TNTs, too, but at a higher recoil level than I enjoy for pleasure shooting.

That shouldn't last long...

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No, regular dies work fine in mine, fall right in the chamber.

Regular dies also work fine in my 300's, as 'hanco' posted "fall right out of the chamber". IMR 3031 is one of my two favorite powders for the Sav 300, the other being Varget. Great accuracy with both powders using Speer 150 grain SP's. I should note my 300 Savage rifles consist of a Sav 99R and two Remington 81's. I've read here and there that semi-auto's need small base dies to which I've never needed for proper functioning even with other semi-auto's (M1 Garand 30/06, Ruger Mini 14, Colt and S&W AR15 .223/5.56mm).

If your in a jam, 308 brass is easily trimmed and resized to 300 savage.

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This. In fact because 300 Savage brass is hard to find and often overly expensive when you do, making it from 7.62 NATO machine gun brass is what I have done for years. I cut to length + about .005" first and then run it into my FL sizing die. Out comes a 300 Savage. I then trim to uniform length and in some cases I have neck turned it to thin the necks where some is now made from the former shoulder of the 7.62 case. In some rifles the necks of their chamber is loose enough not to need the turning but some others are.
I own 2 300 Savage rifles. A Savage 99 and also a Remington M81. I have found brass made from MG cases is very good and long lasting. I made about 300 of them some years ago and so far I have not had a single case failure. One batch of 100 has now be reloaded about 9 times and is still going strong.

Thanks everyone guess I need to order the dies!