[Rock_Steady]

Hey guys, just thought it would be nice of me to actually follow up on something once in a while. :)

back in this thread:

http://www.thehighroad.org/showthread.php?t=162675

I was asking about the .250 savage and using it on Deer-sized game. Just wanted to followup, thank you all for the advice and general teaching, and let you know that the .250 is more than capable of very humanely taking down a deer. I bagged a nice-sized doe on Thursday the 1st of December. I was tired of sitting in my stand so got out and wandered up the hill into a draw, and was surprised to find myself almost surrounded by does. I picked a nice sized one and fired once. She dropped, and didn't get up again. Inspecting the wound, the round entered the lung and then struck the spine (I was firing up a pretty steep incline). I found fragments of the round in the spine and some stuck in the tree behind the deer's position. It was a 100 gr remington pointed softpoint, factory load.

anyways, thanks again and maybe the info was useful for someone else.

--Rock

[Vern Humphrey]

My dad killed a tiger in Sumatra with a .250 Savage, and a lion, kudu and a cheetah, plus scads of other game in Ethopia.

[sumpnz]

Congrats on the deer! About 2 months ago I killed a large cow elk with my rifle in 6.5x55. Not quite as dramatic since I didn't hit the spine, but still plenty effective.

[pete f]

my kids all learned on 250's nothing better in my mind. I shoot a 300 savage. only because the gun has personal history, you want a gun to learn on, the 250 is it. no recoil. kills deer and black bears. prongs and muleys all die too. works as you get older too. I havea good friend whose dad is getting on and has trouble with bigger rounds. arthritis and a bad job of a cataract repair require a soft shooting rifle, he has shot five or six with my 99a in 250-3000. he had stopped for a few years for fear of hurting his eye when he shot his 06.

I find the old silvertip load from winchester is a bit tougher bullet, but we have on had two or three deer that need a second shot and that is always our fault. not the rounds. 250-3000 kills way better than it seems it should.

[Crosshair]

Well if you think about it. If not for the 250 Savage we may not have had the 22-250. THE most versitile 22 round ever.

[mr.trooper]

if you can find a gun with a 1-9" barrel...

[NavajoNPaleFace]

if you can find a gun with a 1-9" barrel...

HUH????????????

[Oldnamvet]

My dad killed a tiger in Sumatra with a .250 Savage, and a lion, kudu and a cheetah, plus scads of other game in Ethopia.

Vern - you should write your autobiography. From what I have read of your posts, it would be quite a life.

[steveracer]

Hers is a .250 savage Ruger M77 Mannlicher, with a 3x Leupold from a billion years ago. She's had it forever, I think, and NEVER missed, or failed to kill on the spot. They call her Boom-flop in camp. You hear a boom, and the whitetail flop. It's almost boring.

[Rock_Steady]

Well, mine is a M-77 in .250 savage. I do seem to have a bit of a problem with rounds moving around when the barrel heats up - think I'm gonna do some stock work to try to alleviate that. I think the stock is pressing on the barrel after a few rounds - otherwise a great gun! Mine has an ancient leupold in 2-7X40 - works great for me!

[kato28]

Back when I was 15 yrs old my Dad took me on my first whitetale deer hunt in upstate PA. (41 yrs ago)

Opening day 7:30 in the morning, sitting next to Dad on a log looking down the backside of a mountain, an eight point buck was walking right to left 75 yds below us. Dad gave me the ok to take him. I squeezed the trigger of my older brother's Model 99 Savage chambered in 250-3000 Savage and loaded with 100 gr Silvertip bullets. With my eyes wide open I actually saw the fur fly at the point of impact just behind its shoulder. He shook and took off like a bat out of you know where. Dad opened up with his 300 H&H, 180 gr Silvertips....I remember seeing huge fireballs pouring out of the muzzle of that beautiful Model 70. The old buck did not go far with Dad taking out his front and rear legs.

The deer dropped fifty of so yards later. While we dressed the deer, I saw a slight silver glimmer as we opened up the deer. It was a perfect 250-3000 mushroom that had gone directly thru and left a silver dollar sized hole in the animal's heart.

Thirty years later and till he went to Heaven's hunting ground, Dad put the 300 H&H in the safe and was carrying the same Savage 99 in the woods that my brother and I had used on our respective first hunts. I had a 1X4 Leupold put on top to help with Dad's sighting.

I have a couple of very young grand daughters...can you guess what their first deer rifle will be??

Thank you,
Michael

[koja48]

And the legacy lives on, as it should. This is a good thing you do, Grandpa Kato.