Charles Cottar & the Savage .250-3000

1919 Savage Rifle Advertisement

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CHARLES COTTAR'S SURPRISE AT THE .250-3000

Is anything much harder to kill than the rhinoceros? His temper is bad, his skin is inches thick, and he weighs close to a ton. He charges on sight, and he will hunt a man as a terrier does a rat.

    Mr. Cottar has killed a number of charging rhino with his little .250-3000 Savage rifle. He has learned to expect it to kill them.

    But when he killed one that ran away-killed it with one shot-striking in the ham and ranging clear forward through the lungs at 175 yards he was really surprised. He didn't think any rifle could do that. 

    Mr. Cottar has been killing leopard, lion, rhino, hippo and elephant with the 250-3000 Savage for four or five years. He has found it the most generally useful rifle for African hunting.

    It is a six-shot, seven-pound, lever-action take-down repeater, with checked extra-full pistol-grip stock and fore- arm and corrugated steel shot-gun butt-plate and trigger. It has the lines, beauty and feel of an expensive shot-gun. And it shoots a vicious little 87-grain Spitzer point bullet 3000 feet a second, straight enough to make possibles on

the 800-yard target and hard enough to penetrate 5/8" boiler-plate or Mr. Cottar's rhino. 

    Look at it and later on buy it at your dealer's, and write us for a detailed description.

SAVAGE ARMS CORPORATION

UTICA, N. Y.

Sharon, Pa.                          Detroit, Mich.

Executive and Export Offices

50 Church St., New York City

Manufacturers of Hi-Power and Small Calibre Sporting Rifles, Automatic pistols and Ammunition

Charles Cottar

Savage Arms Corporation