Well that tears it... (new caliber)

I saw an ad last week for an estate sale in my town, to be held through the weekend. Said sale was to include reloading supplies and equipment, so I thought I would mosey on over and see if there was anything interesting available.

As it turns out... (I can tell you're all waiting in suspense)... there was, and I brought it home. I got some bullets and a whole lot of brass, not to mention some cartridge boxes and some organized shelving that I could put to good use (my current system of organization being of the "a tornado came through here" school).

I was sitting down sorting brass yesterday and looking at what I thought was about 300 cases of 6.5 Creedmoor. It turns out it was about half 6.5 Creedmoor brass and the other half .250 Savage brass.

So I have about 150 empty brass cases for .250 Savage. I thought to myself "What am I going to do with this?" The reply came to me almost immediately: "Uh, I dunno... shoot some deer with it maybe?"

There's a shop a few townships over that seems to really appreciate the Savage 99, and they keep quite a few of them on the used rack. I am certain they will have one or more of them chambered in .250-3000.

A couple of questions:

1) Will the 14:1 rifling twist stabilize a 100-grain bullet adequately, or should I look specifically for the later 1:10 twist? and

2) Does anyone here have any experience loading and shooting the .250 Savage?

-AaronB

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If you look at factory 100 grain ammo, you will see that the bullets are kind of between a round nose and a blunt spitzer. The factory 100 grain loaded ammo stabilizes just barely, but not well enough for great accuracy. A 100 grain Spitzer would never stabilize in my 1 in 14 twist Savage. The best I could find was the Sierra 90 grain hollow point. I tried Nosler 100 grain plastic point bullets, but they went through the target sideways at any distance. None of the 100 grain Spitzers I tried ever would stabilize. The bottom line is that if you want to load any bullets heavier than about 90 grains, the 1 in 14 twist isn't going to get you there.

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I have read that the 100-grainers will stabilize in the 1:14 barrels if you push them to top velocity, i.e. 2800 fps or so. The reason is, at that velocity you're spinning them fast enough for them to stabilize.

Of course, I read the above "information" on the internet, which makes it worth exactly what I paid for it. Still, it does lead me to ask, when you were trying the 100-grainers in your rifle and they were keyholing, how fast were you pushing them?

-AaronB

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The one in 14 twist won't stabilize real spitzers...

How fast were you pushing them?