straightshooter wrote:My setup is this.
25/303 Sportco #4 with open sights only is now only loaded with 75 grain HP projectiles and doesn't get much use. I keep it for sentimental reasons.
250 Savage is loaded with 87, 90 and 100 grain Hornady or Nosler projectiles as the whim takes me. Trouble with those projectiles, at least the ones I have stockpiled , is they are made for North American hunting and mostly are too hard for suitable to the caliber Australian game such as pigs and goats even at close range like 80 meters where they will sail through with not much noticeable expansion. Except as noted this caliber is a perfectly adequate for up to 200 meters without having to aim off. This rifle doesn't and won't get much use because it's worth way too much money.
25-06 is loaded with 100 grain or 115 grain Nosler Partition. I have stockpiled enough of these for any anticipated future hunting needs. This setup works well for any suitable game out to 250 meters without aiming off and sometimes if I guess right even a lot further.
I would suggest you think through carefully lengthening the throat. With a small case capacity there is almost nothing to be gained if you stick with sane chamber pressures. For a variety of reasons a throating job such as you describe, if not done perfectly, can very easily be detrimental to accuracy which can be very disappointing if you enjoy good accuracy to start with.
wise words mate . i've looked into the negatives of long throating the chamber , gotta have faith in my smith i guess . loaded to listed COL , 100gn speer are a fair way into the case . seated, a 87 speer flat base level with the bottom of the neck is 2.500" COL . 70 thou off the lands is where i want to be when seated at this length . this is the shortest projectile i want to use . speer list the COL as 2.465" . the max for this cal is 2.515" , originally housed in the short mag of the 99 savage . so not increasing it greatly , 50 thou should do it . at this stage i'm investigating this idea of long throating , nothing set in stone yet , 100's are the main projectile i want to use , and seated to listed col they take up a bit of room in the case .
extending the throat is a common thing to do with the 257bob when used in a 98 or 30-06 long action apparently.
i had weird performance from nosler BT's in my 30-06 . pin holes close in , great expansion at distance . the opposite of what a lot of projectiles do .
I'll have to see how the rifle likes them , 87,100 gn FB speers , 100gn game kings, are what i'm thinking of . i've gotta barrel on it's way , so the bits are coming together
. a lot of guys just resize and go according to yank forums 
looks like necking up 22-250 is the go . either that or buying proper hornady brass , which ain't cheap . however i have found a guy who cleans, anneals, resizes and neck turns new or once fired range brass into obsolete calibers . spoke to him last week and he's got proper forming dies apparently . might give this a go . uses ppu or sako 308 brass to form 250 savage
