The perfect Model 70 No. 2 Rifle
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redneck2
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I had this long time yearning for Model 99 Savage types. I got to the point where I could easily afford them, and got two really, really nice ones
the beauty of the two was a very limited edition in 250-3000, only made 1914-18. Wood was astounding. My ultimate antelope rifle. I would take it out of the safe and just look at it. Beautiful, perhaps an unfired rifle a hundred years old
at some point it occurred to me that, were I to take it, the rifle would be carried around out in the dirt and dust on a four wheeler and subjected to rocks, sagebrush, and cactus thorns. I wasn’t going to be the one to beat up a rifle that had meticulously care for over a hundred years
sold it to a collector and I have every confidence it’s still 100%. A $400 .243 Weatherby Vanguard killed the antelope just fine
the beauty of the two was a very limited edition in 250-3000, only made 1914-18. Wood was astounding. My ultimate antelope rifle. I would take it out of the safe and just look at it. Beautiful, perhaps an unfired rifle a hundred years old
at some point it occurred to me that, were I to take it, the rifle would be carried around out in the dirt and dust on a four wheeler and subjected to rocks, sagebrush, and cactus thorns. I wasn’t going to be the one to beat up a rifle that had meticulously care for over a hundred years
sold it to a collector and I have every confidence it’s still 100%. A $400 .243 Weatherby Vanguard killed the antelope just fine
horsemen61
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@redneck2 I am looking to have a very fine tool built not a piece to sit in the safe as the years go by and the dents and the dings happen I will be able to look back and say “ahh yes I bumped the stock back in 2026 on a fence post one early morning” to my grandkids.
My wife’s Grandpa has a Winchester Model 70 featherweight chambered in .270 Winchester it has killed more game than I can haul in my semi with a long box hooked up.
Every grandkid has killed a deer with it I have killed several deer with it my brother in law has killed multiple deer with it. We can all look at that gun and tell many stories about where it’s been and what it’s done. It is a very fine rifle is it a collector grade no, is it a pre 64 no but even if it was we would still use it.
I understand why you sold that model 99 and don’t fault you for that. For me I will get immense joy from having something built to my specs more or less and using it.
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The stock and metal modifications were the work of Bob Emmons, who did much of the photography of Monte Kennedy's seminal Checkering & Carving of Gunstocks, during which time he met and learned from some of the finest custom gunmakers of his or any other era. When I first met Bob he was beginning his career in custom work and I had yet to see any of his stockwork, but I figured he should know what he was doing so we discussed him doing a project for me. I had learned early on that the way to get the best work from a custom artist is to inspire him with a beautiful piece of wood, the results of this investment speak for themselves. Then as now, the old Pre-64 M-70 was favored by custom craftsmen but the shape of the tang presents a stylistic problem. Bob overcame this problem beautifully by reshaping the tang so that if flows into the contours of the stock, as shown here. And the grain of the wood had such spectacular contrasts that we decided to show as much as possible, by fitting only heel and toe caps rather than a full cover buttplate. Same with grip cap, which is a ring of ebony. Bob Emmons is gone now but he left a beautiful legacy in this and other creations..
redneck2
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It’s your money, your rifle. And, if it’s something built today, you can get another one. Knock yourself out.
That 99, well it’s impossible to replace. And, I’m not gonna drag it across the rocks and lose $1,000 at the first scratch or ding. Kinda like using the Mona Lisa for a dart board
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