Might get crazy next year

[Don Fischer]

Always though I'd like a 250 Savage. Have 2-243's, a Mossberg Patriot and a 700 ADL. Thinking this next year about having the 700 rebarreled to a 250-3000 with a 22" barrel with a taper about like the old 660 Rem I had. Not a clue why at this point, have everything I'd hunt for the rest of my life covered! I do this and it has nothing to do with need! Pretty frugal guy but now and then just have the need to blow some money!

Only semi custom rifle I ever had is my 6.5x06. 700 BDL with a 25" Shilen barrel. Love it but lately I find myself shooting my 6.5x55 more. Have a 25-06 I seldom use anymore and 250-3000 could maybe change that! Check that, Got a 1903 Springfield customised by Paul Jaeger in 1945 but I inherited it!

Thinking again, dangerous thing. Have a 788 in 308 that the tab holding on the trigger broke off and it's out getting fixed. Maybe a 788 in 250-3000 would be even better!

So, what does everyng think? Should I stick with the 200 hunting knives I have now or get a new one? I only ask because right now the 250-3000 looks like a shoo n!

 

[JohnCushman]

I shot my first mule deer with a 250-3000 lever rifle when I moved to Colorado. Great gun and great cartridge.

 

[std7mag]

I love the idea!!

I got a 24" over run special from E.R. Shaw some years back now chambered in 250Savage for $100.
Couldn't pass it up!
Screwed it on my Stevens 200 after i shot out the original 7mm-08 barrel.
Finally bought a Savage Axis II in 7mm-08 and i swapped the barrels.

Load development was easy peasy!

75gr Sierra HP Varmint bullets over a fairly low charge of Alliant Varmint nets 3,150fps of coyote medicine.

Been loading RL17 with 100gr and 115gr Ballistic Tips for deer.
Took 2 deer the other year with the 100gr Ballistic Tips.

And i have yet to get the stock made for my Savage Axis benchrest rifle with 26" Shilen barrel.
(A lower poundage Wolfe spring in the Rifle Basix trigger has it at a crisp, clean 8oz.)

 

[howl]

The easy was to get a .250 Savage is to swap a 6.5 Grendel bolt and barrel into your AR. Pretty much the same thing.

 

[std7mag]

The easy was to get a .250 Savage is to swap a 6.5 Grendel bolt and barrel into your AR. Pretty much the same thing.

I thought the Grendel was based off the 220 Russian case?

 

[howl]

I thought the Grendel was based off the 220 Russian case?

I'm suggesting performance is very similar. If you want an 120gr bullet of about that diameter at about that velocity, 6.5G is probably the easiest way to get there.

 

[std7mag]

I'm suggesting performance is very similar. If you want an 120gr bullet of about that diameter at about that velocity, 6.5G is probably the easiest way to get there.

Aaaahhhhhh.....
Gotcha!!

See if you get a 250 Savage bolt & barrel, you'll be all the rage at band camp!!

 

[Don Fischer]

The easy was to get a .250 Savage is to swap a 6.5 Grendel bolt and barrel into your AR. Pretty much the same thing.

I don't have an AR rifle, bolt kind of guy!

 

[Caseknife]

Grendel doesn't have the history that the 250-3000 does. Me, I would rather have the history.