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November 04, 2009
Confidence - 8
by John B. Snow
I’m heading off to Canada next week for a Saskatchewan whitetail hunt and pretty quickly settled on bringing a lever gun with me. Took my Marlin 336C in .35 Remington out yesterday to get my new scope dialed in (and an interesting little scope it is too…more on that later) and after I got it on paper I cranked off this 5-shot group. Not too shabby: 0.631 inches. I did it with 200-gr. Hornaday Leverevolution ammo. I turned it down a quarter inch to put it 3.5 inches high at a 100. That will put it dead on at 200 and 15 inches low at 300, which works fine for me. Having confidence in your rifle before starting off on a hunt—there’s no better feeling. As a side note, if you have an old lever gun and haven’t tried any of the Leverevolution ammo in it, buy a box and give it a try. I’ve shot a bunch of it in .30-30, .45-70, .35 Rem., .450 Marlin and it has always been as accurate as other factory loads and sometimes a whole bunch better.
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Comments (8)
i have always liked lever guns hope you have great fun up north.and tag a big one!
I love to see groups where all the holes touch and make one big hole. Nothing sweeter.
I have the same gun and was wondering what type of scope you had on it and what else you have hunted with it. I also have a 30-30 Winchester and love to shoot both of them. Great shooting by the way!
I plan on picking up some leverevolution shells for my .30/30 next season.
i have 2 30-30 rifles and a 300 savage in lever action. do they have ammo for the 300? love to shoot all three. lever actions are not dead!
That is a sweet shooting little rifle. Good luck in Saskatachbush, shots can get a little long in that province and the bald prairie doesn't offer much cover to get close-- still it all depends where you end up!
You're right about the potential for long shots out there, but I'll feel very comfortable stretching it out to 300 yards, or a touch longer, with this rifle. It's plenty accurate and the terminal ballistics will knock even a big deer on his kiester with a broadside shot through the ribs.
While Hornaday isn't loading the flex tip bullets in .300 Savage, you can purchase the bullets separately as components from them if you like to reload.
A couple words of caution, however: If you have an old Savage 99 in .300 you might want to think twice before loading modern bullets with thick bases made of copper or gilding metal. In a worst case scenario, you run the risk of damaging the rifling.
Also, with the 99s rotary magazine you aren't limited to blunt nose bullets as with lever guns that are tube fed.
The factory 150-gr. Federal Softpoints I use in my 99 when sighted a couple inches high at 100 are dead-on at 200 and about 5 inches low at 300. That works for me.
Sounds good John Snow. Half the fun of such ventures comes in the planning and anticipation. I look at certain rifles and the memories of special outings with them in hand are made fresh in an instant. I hope that this will be one of those occasions for you.
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i have always liked lever guns hope you have great fun up north.and tag a big one!
I plan on picking up some leverevolution shells for my .30/30 next season.
i have 2 30-30 rifles and a 300 savage in lever action. do they have ammo for the 300? love to shoot all three. lever actions are not dead!
I love to see groups where all the holes touch and make one big hole. Nothing sweeter.
I have the same gun and was wondering what type of scope you had on it and what else you have hunted with it. I also have a 30-30 Winchester and love to shoot both of them. Great shooting by the way!
That is a sweet shooting little rifle. Good luck in Saskatachbush, shots can get a little long in that province and the bald prairie doesn't offer much cover to get close-- still it all depends where you end up!
You're right about the potential for long shots out there, but I'll feel very comfortable stretching it out to 300 yards, or a touch longer, with this rifle. It's plenty accurate and the terminal ballistics will knock even a big deer on his kiester with a broadside shot through the ribs.
While Hornaday isn't loading the flex tip bullets in .300 Savage, you can purchase the bullets separately as components from them if you like to reload.
A couple words of caution, however: If you have an old Savage 99 in .300 you might want to think twice before loading modern bullets with thick bases made of copper or gilding metal. In a worst case scenario, you run the risk of damaging the rifling.
Also, with the 99s rotary magazine you aren't limited to blunt nose bullets as with lever guns that are tube fed.
The factory 150-gr. Federal Softpoints I use in my 99 when sighted a couple inches high at 100 are dead-on at 200 and about 5 inches low at 300. That works for me.
Sounds good John Snow. Half the fun of such ventures comes in the planning and anticipation. I look at certain rifles and the memories of special outings with them in hand are made fresh in an instant. I hope that this will be one of those occasions for you.
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