Will the 325 WSM work on Grizzly especially for Brown Bear? I'll take my 338 Win Mag with 250 grain Nosler Partitions. I've put my boot in the rear paw print of one Grizzly near Chicken AK. The tips of the claws extended a good 4 inches past my toe.

Bottom line,

All the firepower in the world is useless if you cannot accurately within milliseconds place the shot, recover instantly to repeatedly give additional shots accurately.

What the fella is trying to say, it's easier for a company that mass produces many products can afford to retool for another product. What makes many products more expensive is the retooling and place to manufacture etc, it isn't cheap!

my dads shotgun is a savage 67 e and it aint pretty but its accutet i killed my first deer with it. i think savage guns are the best only second to henry

While I'm sure it will kill bears, so will a .30-30. It is not a bear rifle. One needs to "Use Enought Gun". A .325 isn't. They should have gone with a larger bore.
I wonder why they picked this one when there are so many better choices for a "Bear Rifle".

MG

Average range of a bear? Take the 30 WSM and punch it out to 35, 375 or perhaps 418, 458 perhaps maybe to big???? Maybe not?? Interesting thought, but what the hell do I know about up close and personal in Alaska! I wished I had a dollar for every time I thought I craped my pants!

I came to firearms later in life so I am still enamored with classic lever, pump and bolt action styles which are as timeless of design to me as a Gibson Les Paul, a Fender Stratocaster or many of the classic cars such as Mustangs and Camaros. I find the trend towards "black" rifles disconcerting on an aesthetic basis, although I hold no grudge against their use (don't want to suffer the fate as Mr. Zumbo). I've noticed Remington has cut back on many calibers for their bolt actions and Savage has discontinued a lot of models I was interested in (the slug rifle and the muzzleloaders of which I am fully aware of the problems associated with the later) for what I consider to be ugly laminate rifles with bad lines. Hope I get enough do-re-me saved up before Ruger discontinues the No.1. Hard to find their .44 lever action, might need to go the Winchester 88 route as a Sako Finnwolf is too expensive and I prefer American made items when possible. I never aspired to be Buck Rogers (just John Wayne). My 2 cents which has proved over time to be worth just that! Must be getting olddd....

Looks nice. Not sure if it would be considered "The" Bear Rifle, since many other calibers would do as well, maybe better.

But Savage is making some accurate guns at a good price point. Glad to see an American maker doing well.

Also from the video it's good to see DP "cleans up" pretty well too. :)

Dave does clean up rather well, but did anyone else notice he kind of resembles one of those bobble head dolls in the video? Just saying...

I am really glad to see Savage succeeding in an economy like this. I think they have figured out how to make cheap accurate rifles better than anyone. One day I hope to own another. I had one of their .22/.410 OU's once upon a time. It was my favorite gun as a kid.

Owning a 338 Win Mag and stepping down to a .325 WSM feels like I'm stepping down to a 338-06

Thanks Clay. Can I come over for some venison tenderloin (skunked this year) and some hand loads? I'll try to be as unobstrusive as possible. Forgive the big words. Mr. Petzal is getting inside my head. Fine writers have that effect (hopefully). We have to fight the degradation of our language via text messaging with every fiber of our souls.

Excuse me $6 dollars per shell.

What am i missing here, The 325 WSM is a .338 gun with a short throw on the bolt. Yes, maybe a 458 Lott can kill a bear with one shot but if I am on the ground trying to relocate my shoulder and there are two bears what am I to do. Ballistics wise the 325 and 338 are close and the 338 has a proven record, short bolt throw with a proven caliber's power good choice savage

The .325 may fall a hair shy of the terminal performance of a .338 winmag, is only .015mm shy of the diameter of the .338 (.323 vs .338) and may not quite reach the speed and trajectory of the .300winmag, but it's so close I doubt any bear would know the difference.

I'm slinging a 200gr Barnes TSX out of mine at just under 3k fps. It's flattened a lot of hogs, from 300lbs down. It's also knocked the tar out of a scimitar-horned oryx. Haven't shot a bear with it, and probably won't, but there's no question it's completely on par with the .338... which, as someone pointed out, is also available in the new Black Bear Hunter if that's what you prefer.

I shot the .300winmag version of the Black Bear Hunter on Monday, and played with the brake, turning it on and off. It's a really nicely designed rifle, it shoots like a dream, and with the brake turned off, it's no worse than any other magnum rifle for noise and recoil. With the brake on, it's loud as hell, but the recoil falls to a very bearable force.

They have a great business plan, and its terrific to see the marketing manager understands the operating principle. The breadth of their products reach a broad scale of the shooting community, and the backbone of it is affordability and quality, which will drive volume. Nice suit Dave.
Thanks.

HogBlog

While your pushing a 220 at 2706 fps

IMR 4831 66.0C 2706 54,900 PSI
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I'm thumping a 250 Grain Nosler Partition at 2816

IMR4350 70.0C

The #1 choice of cartridge by Alaska Residents is the 338 Win Mag.

Shooting Black Bear with any cartridge larger that 30-06 with a 165 is a joke!

Go to Alaska with the Big Boys, I'll bet you will scrambling for something bigger than a .325 WSM.

By the way, 325 WSM 200 grain at 3000 fps? How about a 338 Win Mag 225 at 3000 fps.

Bottom line,

If I was going to shoot a 325WSM, I'll use a 300 Win Mag, but I still prefer my 338 Win Mag over the 300 Win Mag.

Black Bear?

Magnum Rifle?

I'm comfortable using my 25-06 LOL!

i did just fine with my '06, .300 win mag, and weatherby .270 mag in alaska.

Bee

10-4

I'll stick with the .338 Win Mag, thanks just the same.

FirstBubba is right,

Bill C. usta say, "The only reason they make magnums is so the Cajuns in south Louisiana can feel pain and hear noise when they pull the trigger!"

FNG, Who was the ivory collector in Africa who killed so many elephants with a 7X57 and 175 gr solids? Suppossed to have killed more elephants than any other person? Just askin,,

I'm sure that this new round will do a bear, just like anything else will if the shot is good. But personally I'll use a larger bullet if I think a cranky bear might be hunting me. Thankfully the little black bears in Arizona are not usually cranky, but for them a .30 will typically do the trick. Still, a new plus .30 round isn't a bad thing, elk and all else factored in.

There is no such thing as a free lunch.

A .325 is not quite a .338, but it doesn't kick as hard either. If I could afford to hunt brown bears in Alaska, I'd give the .325 some thought. The lightweight .300 Win Mag I used to hunt with and the .338s I've shot kicked pretty hard even before my eye and shoulder problems. For a guy like me, who only has old-timey lever actions in soft-kicking .30-30 and .35 Rem, the .325 is an elephant gun. Maybe it's a good thing I plan on staying home.