300 Savage Bullet

[blacktailhunter]

I guess I am just a little too nostalgic when it comes to my Grandpa's old 99. It was the first center-fire rifle I ever shot. It's all I used until I got money to buy a new rifle. That's a different story.

I load the 180gr Speer Mag-Tip over RL-15. This load smokes along at 2440fps and flat puts a channel through game animals. I never did recover a bullet.

The last animal to fall to this rifle was a large cow elk that my son shot. He mistakenly thought the animal was quartered to, but it was actually quartered away. I understand this since it does wear the Stith scope and mounts that my Grandpa had installed at the time of purchase. It has a field of view measured in inches and has cadaracs(sp) due to it's age. End of story was an elk that had been hit in the left ham. She stumbled a few steps and fell for good. The first thing I noticed when moving her for the gut job was a nice exit hole in her arm-pit. That bullet put a nice 3" tunnel from stern to stem, jellied one lung, and put a decent contusion on the heart. Grandpa would be proud!

 

[Antelope_Sniper]

Great Story Blacktail. So much for the little 300 not being enough for elk1 :grin:

Val, that looks like a pretty respectable load.

I think it's interesting to note that all the loads mentioned are with old classic bullets, hornady, spear, and one of my favorite's, the old Remmy bullets.

 

[1Shot]

You did not say what you were hunting with your 300 Savage but I take it is deer. I have been using the 125 Ballistic Tips in a 30X47 HBR wildcat which is the 300 Savage case with the shoulder pushed back 10 thousands but left the same OAL. My load is 42 grs IMR 4895 (all that you can get into the case and seat a bullet). I get 2850 fps and it kills deer like lightening struck them. You could use the same load or maybe a grain more for your 300 Savage.

 

[OldMan]

I have never used the old 99 to hunt with, I guess i have too many guns! On second thought, there is no such thing as too many guns. It is so accurate and kicks so little that it's just fun to shoot. The load I used was 44 grains of RL15 with a 165 Speer hot core, but I chrono'd it at 2715. This scared me as it is way over the listed fps so I would like to work up a lower pressure, safe load. If the 125 BT works well in it I might even deer hunt with it sometime !

 

[Richracer1]

I have some 125BTs and Hrdy 130 SPs on the way.

Can anyone tell me the length of a 150 TSX?

 

[Bigfoot]

According to Load From a Disk software the 150 TSX is 1.38". The 130 is 1.26". I've learned to not fully trust the measurements given by LFAD so don't bet the bass boat on those numbers.

Great thread, keep it coming.

I've got a good handle on how the 150s perform at 300 velocity.

I wonder if some here can compare the performance of the 125 BT, the 130 Hornady and the 125 Sierra Pro-Hunter on deer. I'm sure that one of them would be all that's needed for blacktail. Velocity would be around 2600-2800. Ideally listing them in order of soft-to-stiff?


Thanks
Bigfoot

 

[Bigfoot]

Sorry about the thread killing post. :lol:

 

[DrMike]

Sorry about the thread killing post.

Happens to me all the time.

 

[1Shot]

The 125 Sierra and the 130 Hornady SP would be about the same jacket thickness. These bullets are lighter constructed than the 150 gr bullets but not as lightly constructed as the V-max or varmint bullets. The 125 Nosler ballistic tip would be my choice and it is my choice that I use in all my 30 cal. rifles to shoot white tail deer in the 80 to 200 pound average class. It would be great for black tail deer. I have shot somewhere between 20 and 25 white tail deer with the 125 Nosler ballistic tips and I have not had a single one even take a step after being hit. I use center front shoulder shots when possible. If that is not possible I either enter or exit a front shoulder. I just look in my Hornady book and see that the 130 gr SSP 30 cal bullet that is made for single shot pistols is an inter-lock bullet. The standard 130 SP Hornady is not.