The combination of a straight case with a sharp shoulder and a short neck gives the Savage a modern appearance, and these factors also facilitate accurate headspacing and reliable extraction in a lever action rifle. 308 Winchester has almost the same body but is a bit longer in the shoulder and neck.
300 Savage with a couple of sporting rounds of twentieth century And along with that goes a rather sharp shoulder (30 deg.). Eagle eyes will quickly note that the neck is very short, and that is what you naturally get when you make the body of the case large enough to pack some powder punch, while keeping overall length down. 308 Winchester by thirty years, and it does its work in a case only 1.87 inches long, and a COL of 2.6 inches. 300 Winchester Short Magnum may be the most popular of the crop. Many rifles have been chambered for these, but details of how these have done in the marketplace I do not have. 308 Winchester really filled the bill when it came on the sporting scene in the 1950s, and more recently there has been an orgy of short cartridges, short magnums and even Super Short magnums in. Rifle folks, including the military, just seem to like the idea of a compact rifle action, but they don’t want to sacrifice power to get it. Over the years, one of the recurring themes in American sporting arms is the idea of a short cartridge being used in a short-action rifle. In the meantime, however, Savage sold a gazillion Model 99s and they and others chambered bolt actions, pumps, and autoloaders for the short three-hundred. The good, big cartridge will beat the good, little cartridge every time. Their new round filled the bill pretty well in 1921, but as new powder and bullets came along, the larger case capacity of the ’06 put the Savage in the shade. 30-06 if it were to work in the Model 99. 30-06, but it had to be much shorter than the. Savage wanted a cartridge that would scoot a 150-grain bullet at about the same speed as the. 300 Savage was introduced in their great Model 99 lever action rifle in 1921. Savage does not always get credit for being the historically innovative company that it has been. One new load for an old cartridge probably does not constitute a “rebirth.” But there is deeper water here so hang on while I dip my big toe in the fascinating stream of American firearms history, usage, and marketing. Now I want to say right out of the gate that my title probably overstates the case.
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