The .300 Savage cartridge is a
rimless
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, .30
caliber
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rifle
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cartridge developed by
Savage Arms in 1920. It was designed to replace the less powerful
.303 Savage
The .303 Savage is a rimmed, .30 caliber rifle cartridge developed by the Savage Arms Company in 1894 which was designed as a short (as short as the .30-30 Winchester) action cartridge for their Savage Model 1895 later 1899 hammerless lever-ac ...
in their popular
Savage Model 99
The Savage Model 99, Model 1899, and their predecessor the model 1895 are a series of hammerless lever action rifles created by the Savage Arms Company in Utica, New York. The Model 99 family featured a unique rotary magazine, and later added some ...
hammerless
lever-action rifle.
[The Savage Model 99 by Jon Y Wolfe at Chuck Hawks](_blank)
/ref> Despite having a short case and a rather stumpy neck, the cartridge is capable of propelling a bullet at over with an effective range of over .
Performance
Pressure level for the .300 Savage is set by SAAMI
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at 46,000 CUP
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.[Reloading data at Accurate Powder](_blank)
See also
* .30-06 Springfield
The .30-06 Springfield cartridge (pronounced "thirty- aught-six" ), 7.62×63mm in metric notation, and called the .30 Gov't '06 by Winchester, was introduced to the United States Army in 1906 and later standardized; it remained in military use ...
* .303 Savage
The .303 Savage is a rimmed, .30 caliber rifle cartridge developed by the Savage Arms Company in 1894 which was designed as a short (as short as the .30-30 Winchester) action cartridge for their Savage Model 1895 later 1899 hammerless lever-ac ...
* .308 Winchester
The .308 Winchester is a smokeless powder rimless bottlenecked rifle cartridge widely used for hunting, target shooting, police, military, and personal protection applications globally. It is similar but not identical to the 7.62×51mm NATO ...
* Table of handgun and rifle cartridges
This is a table of selected pistol/submachine gun and rifle/machine gun cartridges by common name. Data values are the highest found for the cartridge, and might not occur in the same load (e.g. the highest muzzle energy might not be in the same ...
References
External links
Savage 99 Web site
C.I.P. TDCC sheet .300 Savage
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300 Savage
The .300 Savage cartridge is a Rim (firearms)#Rimless, rimless, .30 caliber rifle Cartridge (firearms), cartridge developed by Savage Arms in 1920. It was designed to replace the less powerful .303 Savage in their popular Savage Model 99 hammerle ...
.300 Savage
The .300 Savage cartridge is a rimless, .30 caliber rifle
A rifle is a long-barreled firearm designed for accurate shooting, with a barrel that has a helical pattern of grooves ( rifling) cut into the bore wall. In keeping with their fo ...
Savage Arms