Rem 722 in 300 Savage

waco

waco

Springfield, Oregon
Just saw one at the LGS with a very nice, and wide, trigger. Full Mannlicher stock, Weaver K4 scope. Rifle had a jeweled bolt and handle. Pretty nice wood as well. Bore looked beautiful!
$225
I have zero experience with the 300 Savage. How does it do with cast? I know it has a pretty short neck.
Your thoughts please.
Waco
 
Eutectic

Eutectic

Active Member
Mighty short neck on that old gal Waco.... That said I knew some who casted for it a lot of years back... Lyman had a mold designed for it # 311414. Seems I remember someone shooting the Squibb bullet (#311413) in a 99 Savage who wasn't pleased. I've always thought that 722 in .300 Savage would be a nice gun to have. They shot well with jacketed.

Pete
 
RBHarter

RBHarter

West Central AR
I wonder how long the neck would be if you ran a 308 case in a 300 die ......... No the 300 holds it's own . Choose bullets for the x39 and 300 WM . The Warner/Squibb copied Cramer #45 would work too .
 
waco

waco

Springfield, Oregon
I'm going to pick the rifle up Thursday. Too nice to pass up.
I'll post pics later next week.
 
Eutectic

Eutectic

Active Member
You can make it shoot like a house afire..... Even if you have to design a mold at Accurate to do it!

Pete
 
Rick

Rick

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Staff member
A short neck can be a PITA but can shoot well. I did quite well with a 7 TCU and cast and that is about as close to no neck at all as I've ever had. Neck sized fire formed brass and a seater die that seats as close to straight as possible.
 
Pistolero

Pistolero

Well-Known Member
Good cartridge, basically a shorter version of the .308, before the .308. Slightly short on powder
capacity, but with a 150 gr will match old .30-06 velocities. Today's slower powders
has current hottest .30-06 load outrunning it, but not by a whole lot.

Good hunting cartridge, but if you try to go up in bullet wt, the smaller powder volume
keeps the velocities down.

Many rifles have rifling twist to support 150s and not much heavier unless you go to RN
to keep overall bullet length down. BUT, that is based on Savage 99s, not sure what
twist would be in a 722, may be faster.

Proper brass can be in short supply sometimes, but can be made from any .30-06 head
sized case, so easy if you don't mind wrong printing on case head.

Bill
 
Brad

Brad

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I happen to have a 700 in 300 Savage in the safe right now. It was a gift from Khornet to my daughter a few years back.
Short neck can be a pain but I bet Tom can help design a mould that will take that into account.

I like the cartridge.
 
waco

waco

Springfield, Oregon
I was told you could run .308 brass through a 300 Savage FL size die then just trim.
 
Brad

Brad

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Good question for Khornet.

I would worry that case neck thickness would be a problem?
 
fiver

fiver

Well-Known Member
the 35/300 is already the 35 Remington.
load data is a titch hard to find but 35/30-30 data can be safely used to get started.

one of the designs I was working on for the 300XCB round was a 308 run into a 300 savage die.
you end up with a thicker 30-30 rebated rim case. [case capacity]
but it slides right in the die in one easy stroke.
 
RicinYakima

RicinYakima

High Steppes of Eastern Washington
Before anything radical, consider loading a 31141 bullet in a case and extending the throat with a 1 1/2 throating reamer to accept that bullet. You will be happy if you do.
 
Pistolero

Pistolero

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I believe your .308 conversion will work, although .308 rim is thicker than .30-06 rim, but
that shouldn't be an issue unless the extractor is set amazingly tight.
I have had no probs with the short neck, at least in loading Jbullets. May be more of an issue
if you want to use long cast. I'd try 311413 at moderate velocities, like 8-10 gr
Unique or 14-16 gr 2400. Should work.

Bill
 
fiver

fiver

Well-Known Member
if your just looking for a cast bullet to run in it.
the rcbs 30-165 silhouette on top of 17 grs of 2400 or one of the normal standard 30 cal loads dropped back about a grain will make holes in paper pretty close to each other.
 
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