I think I'm elk hunting with a .300 this year.

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taylorce1

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.300 Savage that is! This will be a 3rd season cow/buck deer hunt. I built this little rifle out of Mauser 93 action and spare parts pretty much and right now it is far out shooting my .300 H&H I wanted to use. So it looks like the H&H will be the back up for this years hunt. I hope to chrony some loads next weekend and I hope I'm getting around 2650 with 165 grain bullets.

Right now it really loves the 42.3 grains of RL15, CCI 200 primer, and 165 grain Hornayd's. Nice thing is I'm consistantly shooting 3-5 shot groups around .5-1". The best I'm able to get my H&H to shot is 1.5" for 5 rounds with 180 grain Nosler Partitons. The H&H is shooting good enough I'd be happy hunting with it but it is hard not to want to use the .300 Savage especially since both are capable elk cartridges.
 
You don't need me to tell you it will work fine.
Just for grins,look in the Speer book for an idea.
I set a woman up with a deer/elk Savage 99 long ago.I recall this from then.
Speer says,for elk,their 180 Mag Tip is sweet.It looks like a Grand Slam,.with the flat tip,but Speer says it expands and performs at 300 Sav velocities.
Not telling you how to feed your rifle,just letting you know of an option!!
 
Darn T, when I saw the title I was ready for all the accusations of misinformed Bubba, pecker compensation, sniper commando wannabe, and so forth. Oh well, maybe later.

Good luck with the hunt.
 
Darn T, when I saw the title I was ready for all the accusations of misinformed Bubba, pecker compensation, sniper commando wannabe, and so forth. Oh well, maybe later.
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Sorry it wasn't exactly what you were looking for but I had to bait you guys in somehow!:D



I'm going to see if Nosler Accubonds in 165 grain will work as well as the Hornady's. They will give me a little tougher bullet than the Hornady even though I doubt I'll need them at the velocities the Savage will produce. I've still got time to work it out so I'm not too worried about things.
 
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In my opinion that Accubond is a more reliable, accurate bullet than the Hornady bullet. I know my rifle likes them.

Hey good luck man!!:)
 
Keep the pressures down for the m93 action, it is a sweet little shooter but you don't want to risk a case failure in one. Always wear shooting glasses.

Jimro
 
I get right at 2,600 with that load. Should be plenty if you keep the range within reason.
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Yeah, my book says that it is a 2600 fps load out of a 20" barrel, I've got 3.5" extra of barrel so I'm hoping for an extra 50 fps minimum.

I've had good luck with Accubonds as well for accuracy, but they cost me the same amount for 50 as 100 of the Hornady's. The Hornady load should get me close for the AB bullets so I don't have to shoot as many to dial them in. I'm always on the hunt for factory seconds in Nosler but this rifle didn't like the 150 grain BT I was shooting and I couldn't find any in 165 to do load development.

I did a lot of searching to find low pressure rounds that would work with the M93 action. There are a lot of low pressure chamberings out there in a multitude of calibers, I just found the deal on the .30 cal barrel. The .300 Savage offered the best balance of power and trajectory without going over pressure. Plus I'm almost two full grains from max in this load so I figured if it was shooting that well there was no need to go any further. I'm going to eventually add a commercial bolt shroud to help deflect the gases in case there is a case rupture.
 
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