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Post by bula on Apr 23, 2018 11:49:56 GMT -5
Am going thru reloading stuff, brass, etc., of a friend. Have several boxes of now empty brass, 303 Savage. No such critter in any of my loading manuals going back to early '80's. School me..
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Post by Encore64 on Apr 23, 2018 11:56:57 GMT -5
The 303 Savage is very much like the 30-30. It was an early offering in the 99. It used .308" bullets usually 190 grains.
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Post by coldtriggerfinger on Apr 23, 2018 12:23:42 GMT -5
I think it was quite popular in Canada. A very close friend used a Savage 99 in 303 Savage to hunt moose in Northern B.C. in the 70s. It did a fine job. One of the bulls he got was over 50" He is a Canadian.
Back then the 32 Special Winchester ( one of my brothers has had and hunted a 32 Special for around 40 + years) . And the 32 Remington were actually rather popular.
Savage always had their own carts chambered in their rifles. Until they started clambering the Winchester carts.
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Post by 2sheriffs on Apr 23, 2018 15:25:42 GMT -5
Use 30-30 data for reloading. As usual, start lower and work up. The 303 Savage is completely different from the 303 British. 303 Savage uses .308 bullets
Ron
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Post by bigbrowndog on Apr 23, 2018 19:44:10 GMT -5
The 303 British, is head and shoulders above the Savage offering. In a good rifle it is 308 equivalent.
Trapr
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Post by jsh on Apr 23, 2018 19:59:24 GMT -5
...........never owned or fooled with one, had it in my mind the savage was a true .303?
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Post by petep on Apr 24, 2018 4:36:12 GMT -5
If you google "303 Savage in a 303 British" and look at the images you will see how different the two rounds are.303 Savage will fire in a 303 British chamber ,a 40 S&W will also fire in a 45 ACP revolver but it is not advised!
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Post by bula on Apr 24, 2018 8:25:31 GMT -5
Thanks guys !
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Post by warhawk on Aug 4, 2018 20:19:55 GMT -5
Going thru some old posts and saw this. I am 58 years old now, I killed my first deer as a teenager, with a Ruger 44 Carbine. It was a little forkhorn and I shot it broadside, right thru the very center of the deer, center him up and down and front to back, that’s where I hit it.
One of my elderly relatives was along on the hunt. He carried a Savage 99 that was ancient even then, fore end held in place with electrical tape and a penny under the rear sight to replace a lost sight elevator. It was a .303, the only one I’ve ever seen. He looked at my deer on the tailgate of the pickup, spit a long stream of tobacco juice and said .... “Plumb near missed him, didn’t ya boy?”
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Post by 45MAN on Aug 5, 2018 18:38:18 GMT -5
I HAVE LOADED FOR THE 303 SAVAGE. USED 30-30 BULLETS AND EQUALED 30-30 VELOCITIES. MY SAVAGE TAKE DOWN, CIRCA 1927, SHOT VERY WELL WITH THE HANDLOADS. I THINK I GOT MY BRASS FROM HUNTINGTON. LATER HORNADY MADE A RUN OF 303 SAVAGE AMMO, I BOUGHT SOME BUT HAVE NEVER TRIED IT. I AM A HANDGUN HUNTER AND RARELY SHOOT RIFLES BUT I GOT ON A SAVAGE 99 KICK YEARS BACK, EVEN SHOT A BIG HOG WITH A 99 IN 22 SAVAGE HIGH POWER.
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