.300 Savage

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The .300 Savage cartridge is a rimless, .30 caliber rifle cartridge developed by Savage Arms in 1920. It was designed to replace the less powerful .303 Savage in their popular Savage Model 1899 hammerless lever-action rifle, which they started to produce again as Model 99, as well as the new Savage Model 1920 bolt-action rifle. Despite having a short case in order to fit the original Model 99 magazine and a rather stumpy neck, the cartridge is capable of propelling a 150 gr bullet at over 2600 ft/s with an effective range of over 300 yards.

Performance

Pressure level for the .300 Savage is set by SAAMI at 46,000 CUP.

Official SAAMI .300 Savage dimensional line drawing

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