I’ve been wanting a .250 savage for sometime. Finally got my hands on a 700 classic in the chambering. It’s shooting very well with 4320 and 100g ballistic tips. Not likely I’ll change this combination as I see it doing everything I need the cartridge to do.

I am however losing my mind waiting for deer season and/or a coyote to try it out on. Does anyone care to share their .250savage hunt pics, rifle pics, loads, etc to get me through.

You've got yourself a hellava deer rifle....

Mine is somewhat of a parts bin project that ended up being a rifle I really enjoy.

700 SA
Ti stock
Douglas #2 contour finished at 21"
Tuned/resprung Walker trigger
Glass is a 2.5-8 vx3

Best load so far is the 87 hornady sp right at 2900 fps with 36.0 grains of RL15. 100 grain ballistic tips shot almost as well with 35.0 grains of RL15 and were running just under 2800 fps.

I'm a huge fan of the 80ttsx in .257. I'm getting right at 3600fps w/ RL15 in my Kampfeld 250ai but you should be able to get around 3200+fps with standard 250. It is whitetail medicine... hits em like lightning.

What's the charge weight?

Have you tried H4895? Nosler's top charge of 35 grains works very well for me.

35g even of 4320 gave me just a touch under 3/4 at 100. Didn’t bother trying anything else. Book puts it at 2788 from
a 22” pipe. I suspect I’m a touch higher with my 24”

I am shooting the 80Gr TTSX's in my 250 Savage Model 16. Can't remember the charge weight or powder since I loaded a bunch up several years back. Gun is a tack driver and the three deer I shot with it died like being hit by lightning including one rather large buck.

HeavyBarrel

My 100 grain RL15 load in a 21" tube is right in line with this. Good info, thanks.

My 250-3000:




My load was 100BT with 34.4 of IMR 4895

I used some unheadstamped "Federal" brass that I've had for 20yrs. It is a nice pleasant rifle to hunt with.

Mines a parts basket too. Turkish Mauser with a 700 Classic barrel fitted to it and a chunk of wood that could be trimmed down by about half. Gave it to dad and told him to see what it could do. Multiple bullets, powders, primers. He said he couldn't shoot a bad group with it. I need to change the safety to a more scope friendly choice and get after the stock with a rasp. Right now its just hanging out in one of his safes, where its sat for several years.

250 Savage is a great cartridge case period, i have kinda wondered was the 6.5 Creedmoor case designed with or close to a 250 Savage case with the only intentions to use a different name and make more money ? line both type cases up and you can see both are very similar in size and shape. i just built a 25 Creedmoor only reason was cartridge cases are easier to get and Lapua makes the Creedmoor case too,but i did consider building the 250 Savage 1st. i really hate how gun manufactures have quit chambering some great old cartridge cases like the 250 Savage ,275 Roberts and many others .

The 35 grains of H4895 load with the 100 grain Ballistic Tip produces about 2950 out of my 700 Classic. Small groups too.

Some of mine.

I'll take all five sqweeler! Where do I send my first born?
Some sweet iron right there!

Have one, boringest rifle I own. Truly.

i have:

700 crassic
model 16 weather warrior
77 hawkeye RSI

in .250 sav. the crassic is easily the most accurate, bone stock, with the savage right behind it. the RSI shoots well enough and its uniquely sexy. the 700 and the 16 are both cream puffs to shoot from the bench. its easy to have a tremendous amount of confidence in your shots in the field when recoil and blast are so low. the 18.5” RSI is a little blasty.

Turned down a full stock M77 back when I was young, dumber, and poor. It's been eating at me every since. Then the family got me a M99R 250 for my 50th birthday, made in 1953 same as me. I've taken several deer with the 87 Speer Hot Core and a couple with the 100 Hot Core in that rifle. These days I've settled on Big Game with the Hot Core and RL-15 with the 87 TNT, they shoot to the same point of aim in this rifle, so I can interchange depending on what I'm hunting.
A few years ago Cheesy ran across a Ruger M77 Tang Safe 250 with a Timney trigger consigned at a local gun shop. I ended up buying it and have been real happy with it. The earlier mentioned 35-H4895 load with the 100 Speer Hot Core did a number on a large buck here on my place last fall. A few days later the M99 and the 87 Hot Core dropped a doe. Freezer was full.

My absolute favorite rifle cartridge (have 12 different rifles in that chambering) and have used it on a truckload of whitetails, black bear, pronghorn antelope and a cow elk. My go to load is 38.5-38.7 grains of WW760 behind the old Nosler Solid Base Boattails. Only ever had one issue with that load and that was on a cow elk and never really have determined what happened other than I’m reasonably certain I hit her where I was aiming (slightly behind the shoulder) but never did find her?? Did spend the day looking for her and may have found her if conditions would have been more favorable (she was with 60-80 other elk and at the shot they all went in different directions, all were out of my sight and the tracking conditions were poor (very dry)).

Best of luck and the Remington Classic is typically a real shooter!

PennDog

I had and stupidly sold two different 700 Classics. I shot 39-40 grs of WW760 or H414 with a 100 gr. Nosler Solid Base and was getting 2950-2980 FPS. Very accurate and deadly on whitetails and coyotes. Just an all around super little cartridge and easy to load for. I did use some IMR4320 as well but don't remember the load.

I want a 99 in 250 Savage!

Ive had 2 both liked a heavy load of 4064 and just about any 100 grain bullet.

Have a 99 in .250, only thing it will shoot are the Sierra 90 grain HPBT’s. I suspect the twist is even slower than the 1/14 it’s supposed to be. Likes the stubby little 90, that’s it.

Heavy means how much?

What did your chrono indicate?

I loaded them at 34.5 bullets seated base to junction of shoulder and case neck. Used Nosler solid base, the old real Winchester silvertip. Hornady spire point, Speer and sierra prohunter all 100 grn. 1ST was a winchester M70 with a douglas barrel. No velocity was ever recorded. 2nd was a remington 700.and it would break 2800 not by much.




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Both would shoot all these bullets equally as well.

34.5 isn't what I'd call heavy, certainly not in "bolt action only" territory. I wondered if you'd pushed it.

Had a LH short action M700 BDL rebarreled to .250AI and it shot great but went down the road several years ago.

This is the only .250 Savage currently in the house. Lipsey's Special #1A with the stock reshaped as an English stalking rifle. Not super duper accurate but it puts five shots into right about an inch, give or take a tenth depending on the phase of the moon. It gets fed Sierra 87 gr. Spitzers with 36.5 grs. RL-15 for an average of 3008 fps, about as close to the original .250-3000 loading as I can get.

I've wanted one for quite awhile and finally found one in great shape and a good price. Looking forward to bloodying it on some coyotes this fall.

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Neat rifle Jim !

Here are my .250 Savage rifles all in 250 Savage y

Wish they were faster twist but no around 1-14 twist!

Top 1903 Rock Island
Rest Savage 99 EG

That's pretty good anyway.

Ruger M77 and I’ve been shooting Hornady 117 gr roundnose over 39 grains of H4831. While the rifle has never been particularly accurate, this load is the best I have found. Thanks to a member here for giving me a heads up

My TC Encore with a custom Sop 250 Savage barrel. Took me 5 years of searching to find this barrel.







My Remington 700 Classic in 250 Savage


Steve

I have a few dozen rifles chambered in 250-3000. It is a good cartridge, about the same as the 243 performance wise when using comparable bullets.

Most of the 250-3000 rifles older than 50 years have a 1-14" ROT which limits the length/weight of bullets that will stabilize, but most newer rifles, except for the 1986/87 Winchester/USRA 70 Lightweight Carbine, have a 1-10" ROT and will accommodate most any weight/length of .257" component bullet.

The Remington 700 Classic in 250-3000 came with a 24" barrel, so you should be able to squeeze all the velocity that is possible at safe working pressures.

I only have one Remington chambered in 250-3000, a Model Seven with a 700 Classic barrel that was trimmed back to 21" and is part of a matched pair, the other having a 700 Classic barrel in 300 Savage.

I have the mate to yours in 700 LA 257Roberts. I kinda like your idea better.

Great feedback....really enjoying all the .250savage press.....thanks gentleman

Great looking rifle Jim. I like that.

Son of a friend of mine had one. He thought it was 'just some old rifle' he had to use because it was all he had. He and I had a five minute talk and I am pretty sure now he will never consider parting with it. Cool factor of 9+ in my book.

I shoot 35 grains CFE-223 + 87 grain Speer Hot Core in my 1918-vintage Savage 1899 M.250-3000, tang sight. Groups an honest 1½ and sometimes a hair better. Load chrono'ed at 3000fps on the nose. I see no reason to push it any faster.

85 grain lead plain based bullet + 5 grains Bullseye is good for around an inch at 50 yards and is a plinker load extraordinaire. No idea of velocity but it ain't much!

Mine is kind of like an old mushy jigsaw puzzle all glued together.

Sqweeler,

I have an identical RSI. Have you found a pet load that it loves that you'd be willing to share? I haven't got to develop anything for mine yet. TIA

35 grains H4895 + 100 grain Ballistic Tip

It's hard to beat.

A Savage 99 EG with a Lyman 57 SA in the 250-3000 was my first deer rifle. When I think about it was probably from peer pressure. My Father and his brothers all hunted with a 99 250-3000 in the Wisconsin deer woods. A few 99s have come and gone over the years and I have one now that will never be sold or gifted. 99-A



A Speer 87 grain bullet was used in all the 1-14" ROT 99s for Whitetail deer and saw no need to change that in the 99-A 1-10" ROT. Reloads are 34.5 grains H4895. On a whim recently, I tried Hornady/s 100 grain factory ammo and it was accurate in my 99.

All I have is a .250 improved. It says 6.5 Creedmoor on the barrel.

Mexican Mauser with a pac-nor barrel shoots 100gr Sierra prohunters very well.

Do you still have Kohler’s Model 20?

Nice to hear so many folks shooting and enjoying the .250. I`ve two AI`s, but my original is a mod.20. I`ve had it cense I was 13. I`m now 76, can`t even do the math as to how long that is!
Lots and lots of loads. I`d shot mostly light bullets out of it for both deer and chucks when it had the original 14 twist barrel, fact used 60 grners by both W-W HP and Speer 60 grn. spitzers. Both bullets vaperized any chuck or crow hit within 150 yrds. My 64 Lyman load book suggest a max load of 41 grns 4895 for 3600 fps. I`m sure I used this, as I pushed the 250 hard. My Dad had mounted a Weaver 3/4 inch K 2.5 post and cross hair on. He said I would have trouble shooting at such small stuff with that scope at any distance over 100 yrds. He was right..I eventually went to a newer variable 3x9 scope and a 10 twist Douglas barrel, which it still wears, and realized a lot more flexibility out of the cartridge.
Newer loads would include the 80 grn. TTSX using 39 grns of 4320, and I really like the 100 grn Nosler partition with 37.5 4320, at 3165 and 2940 fps out of my 22 inch barrel. Both shoot very very well.

77R, 99EG, XP-100 Custom shop Heavy bbl. They are all just mild, fun, accurate, killing machines.

Man oh man, what a rifle...

This is my only 250/3000. A Lipsey's stainless Ruger 77MKII RSI in a synthetic stock sourced here at the fire. It shoots pretty good for an 18 1/2" barrel.

Mine is a tang safety Ruger Ultralight. It wears a Vari-X ll 2-7x32 Loopy. The rifle is in a very used condition with much of the bluing missing from the barrel and the stock has numerous scratches and dings. When I got it the stock had a hard clear finish that had cracked with age so I hit it with paint stripper and took it off. I then rubbed in oil by hand to the wood and it brought the walnut up a pleasing reddish colour. Despite its looks the little rifle still shoots under an inch with just about every 100gn bullet I load in it. I found the 100gn Ballsitic Tip a little hard at 2770 fps out of the 20 inch barrel. Pigs tended to run off a ways before going down and I once shot two pigs with the one 100gn BT. I now load the 100gn Hornady SP and find it kills much better on every thing from foxes to pigs. I have not taken a deer with it yet. Despite the 20 inch barrel I load 39gn H4350 with any 100gn bullet and found that that powder gave me better velocity than either H4895 or Varget.

Impressive...does it shoot as good as it looks.

Wow. That's the only other Ruger RL in .250 Sav that I've ever seen in 20 years.

My .250 Savage is an AR-15 that rides under the back seat of the truck. You've seen one of the ugly things. So you've seen them all. Unloading the 20 round mags full of cheap steel case ammo to put in fresh ammo about once per month is fun. If you're wondering how I got a .250 Savage in an AR, it was easy. I just asked for 6.5 Grendel.

The one below isn't mine. It belongs to the spouse and comes in under 7# all up. It has been completely effective on GA whitetails so far.

My 700 Classic has been glassed and floated. 40.3gr RL15 and 75gr V-max gives 3400fps and is devastating on chucks. Not a book load, but safe with long brass life in mine, and sub-half inch groups. 37gr of 4320 and 100gr NBT clocks 3003fps, and shoots right at 1/2", although I prefer Hornadys. About 60fps slower and groups are a whopping 3/4". Also have a 99 Savage, Dakota 76 Alpine, and a M70 compact classic in .250AI.

Yes, #159X

I haven't shot my 77 RSI for a few years, but I have 186 rounds of ammo on the shelf for it that is made with the following recipes:

Winchester/Olin brass
CCI Large Rifle primer
100 grain Nosler Partition bullet over 33.5 grains of H4895 for deer
90 grain Sierra BTHP bullet over 35.2 grains of H4895 for coyotes
75 grain Hornady VMax or Sierra HP over 36.2 grains of H4895 for all varmints.

My 250's

love seeing these RSI’s