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I just heard from my buddy back in Pennsylvania. The 99 will likely get here Thursday. The shells will follow with my 80's Italian LH Flintlock .50 a few days later (clearing my stockpile of guns back there, people keep dying on me). I've never owned a sub-caliber rifle before (all 30s, .30-3O [the dirty-dirty]. .308, .30-06. .300 Weatherby) so this should be interesting. I did find some Speer 87-grain Hot-Cors at Midway that are on their way as well. Fun thing to contemplate, way better than funerals and flooded grouse camps. I've looked into the market for these guns a little further and like most of the decent weapons from the post-war (WWII) years, they have climbed in value significantly (they used-to be fairly common and quite inexpensive where I grew up). The commentary over on the Savage collectors site is that nobody owns just one. I guess we'll see...
Edit: I guess I did own a another Savage before (bolt gun, Model 340) and in .22 Hornet. I'd forgotten that one.
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Now all I need is brass.
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Very crisp.
If you can’t find .250 brass necking out .22-250 should get you started.
To ensure correct headspace it may be worth expanding them to 7mm and then adjusting the .250 FL sizing die until the breech closes with a slight resistance.
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In a parallel world, once upon a time I found myself with 2 new Steyr-Mannlicher carbines in 22-250 but only one stock. I decided to send the stockless one (unfired!) off to Snapp's in Michigan and asked for him to rebore it to 250 Savage. This was very successfully accomplished but my old die set slightly oversized the brass so I adjusted the die to not approach the shoulder and give a firm seat on closing the bolt. At a gun show, I was looking at stock blanks and spotted a very dusty one in "Mannlicher" length that had German railway shipping labels on it. For $10 how could I go wrong for a well aged piece of European walnut. A friend mated the 250 to the blank and presto, my favorite non-single shot deer rifle.
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I've gotten quite the education over on the Savage Collector's Webpage (on 24HourCampfire forum) about this gun. Because it isn't drilled and tapped for a scope, the denizens there didn't think it was a mid-50s gun. They asked me for the SN and then responded that from the records they evidently possess (or have access too) it was one of only 501 made in that rather-odd serial number range, and was made in October/November of 1953. The date code is evidently misstamped with an "E" that looks like an "F" (at first glance, I though it was an "I"). All of that means very little, of course, but is part of the fun of discovering the history these old guns. They all have a story, evidently. Love that brass rotary magazine.
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My old warrior, I hasten to add that it was not mint (indeed somewhat battle scarred since it was made in 1948) when I bought it some 40 years ago. The buffalo horn fore-end tip was the result of a misguided attempt to fit a sling eye too close to the original fore-end tip. The cheek rest was cut from the shattered remains of the stock of a Ross Sporter. The sling is a Parker-Hale SportTarget.
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I like it. Looks like it means business. Way-more utility than mine has.
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