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    Back to the Model 99.

    Savage made many visible changes over the years and significant not so visible changes. One not so visible is the rate of twist. My 250-3000 is a 1 in 14 ROT.

    I always play with different loads for different applications. I wanted to develop loads using heavier bullets than are commercially available. Long story short, I couldn't even get on target with those loads; I was mystified.

    Eventually I moved the target from 100 yards to 25. At that range I hit the paper and solved the mystery. I could see the problem, the target had odd shaped holes, one of which looked like a perfect profile of the bullet. The slow twist was not able to stabilize the heavier bullets. I backed down to lighter bullets and life was good. Latter production guns had faster ROT.

    As a side note, my grandson who is 12, used this gun for his first time this year. I got to hear my son give him the same talk about caring for the gun that my son and his uncles had been given. I think it was word for word!
    Last edited by Dave Grubb; 01-02-2019 at 09:25 AM.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Dave Grubb View Post
    It means my tablet inserted the wrong word, obviously it should read production.
    I knew that.
    This is your mind on drugs!

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    So why did you ask?
    "A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity, an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty” ---Sir Winston Churchill
    "Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all." ---John W. Gardner
    “You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.” ---C. S. Lewis

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    I was thinking you'd get the hint from the smily shaking his head but you took it literally, as in "uhuh" and why wouldn't you? I didn't know that, I didn't take the time to look at the post and think about mis-spelled words. Since I know zip about guns I went straight to I wonder what that means.
    Last edited by mgrist; 01-03-2019 at 11:12 PM.
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