Reading my book on the Savage 99.
The lion's share of the things are in .300 Savage. .250 Savage is the next most common.
With the Winchester 94 and Marlin 336 being mostly in .30-30 and .30-30 being so ubiquitous; I wondered why the .30-30 version of the Savage wasn't more popular.
It's probably knotheads.
The people who find a small advantage of one round over the other and then insisting on it, regardless if the advantage is real. Or if the advantage is outweighed by other liabilities.
.300 Savage does have some advantages over .30-30; especially in the Savage, where you can use spitzer bullets. Same bullet weight, higher velocity, better ballistic shape to the bullet, better sectional density... It's all win!
At the end of the day, can the deer tell the difference? The knothead says, without hesitation, "YES! Absolutely!"
Knotheads also like .270 Winchester.
Knotheads will fight about the relative superiority of 6.8 SPC vs 6.5 Grendel while ignoring both rounds slow fade into obscurity against .300 Blackout.
Knotheads, the truth be told, will also insist that there was no reason for .300 Savage when .250 Savage had already been Divinely Revealed to Charles Newton.
PS: .300 Savage is more available now than when I was first introduced to it. I think it is because of a large number of 99's coming out of closets for sale as the original owners are being moved to Retirement Homes and The Great Beyond.
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"...6.8 SPC vs 6.5 Grendel..."
ReplyDeleteI never saw supposed need for 6.8 (the "because it's better than 855" argument wasn't that great).
6.5 is a better-ish long range cartridge, but I don't know if it will stick around long enough to be popular.
But 300 blowup is a good idea with the worst implementation. SAMMI really screwed the pooch by letting a new cartridge become standardized when you can chamber it into a firearm in the parent cartridge and cause a catastrophic failure.
If either side of the 6.8 and 6.5 debate would stop using outdated information on forums to "prove" their round is better there wouldn't be a debate.
DeleteI've blabbed about it before: https://mcthag.blogspot.com/search?q=6.5+grendel
They're just not different from one another until get to ranges where most people can't shoot accurately, then it's 6.5's game. To quote Willard, "the deer can't tell" and most people aren't hunting at ranges where the 6.5's really shine past 6.8.
It's rabid devotees of 6.5 that have made many a 6.8 fan too.
I'm in complete agreement with you on .300 Blackout!