So now I'm looking for another unobtanium part......sav99 .284 mag.
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DustyGmt
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Not to hijack, quick Sav 99 story. My uncle went yard sale hunting and came across a mint Sav 99. 30-30 iirc. Husband had recently passed and the woman wanted it gone and sold it to my uncle for $250. He ended up selling for like $500. Could have got more I'm sure....
The local general store in my town, Singletons, has like 40-50, maybe 100, idk tons of 99's on the wall, a long with millions of dollars worth of other old guns tha just hang around the store for decoration.
After hurricane irene I saw them pulling water logged guns out of the bulkhead from the basement and piling them up into a pickup bed, hundreds of guns, maybe a thousand. I don't even want to think of what that did to their value. Sorry, not so quick story.
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I shot my first deer on the back side of Mammoth Mountain in the CA Sierras with a 99 in .300 Savage. I guess that has made me partial to them. I do feel that they are a bit awkward to carry on long hunts, but they are accurate enough and the .300 Savage more than sealed the deal in the end. Now Mammoth is all about skiing and I would get arrested for hunting in the same spot. When most folks go to Mammoth they look at the mountain and think about skiing, me I think about deer. Congrats on finding the magazine!
Gordon
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The .284 99 and the Win 88 in .284 were very advanced balistically for their time. Guys who I know used them had .280 like power in a lever gun
As for "sveltness" of the 99 , Ive had half a dozen from early "perch belly" 30-30 carbines. .22 HP and .250 early take downs . and these three. The top gun was a 99 in the .303 Savage which is quite the killer of big hogs where this one was found near where they were imported into Ca. in the 1930s . I recently sold it and the rare ammo for it I had, but I did shoot some animals with it in the 1980s. The most "svelt" and best 99 I have ever seen is this 1959 center one a 99 F model in .308 Winchester.It does it all and I won't sell it. Is is 7.5 pounds scoped and can hold just over 1 moa out to 300 yards or a little better. The bottom gun was one of the last good 99 s (even tho they called it an 1895) Tribute 75th Anniversary gun also in .308. I hunted it , carefully, but it was not as finely finished as the 99F , and not as svelt in the wood departmen even tho a straight grip with an octagon barrel. I got a grand for it a few years ago.
As for "sveltness" of the 99 , Ive had half a dozen from early "perch belly" 30-30 carbines. .22 HP and .250 early take downs . and these three. The top gun was a 99 in the .303 Savage which is quite the killer of big hogs where this one was found near where they were imported into Ca. in the 1930s . I recently sold it and the rare ammo for it I had, but I did shoot some animals with it in the 1980s. The most "svelt" and best 99 I have ever seen is this 1959 center one a 99 F model in .308 Winchester.It does it all and I won't sell it. Is is 7.5 pounds scoped and can hold just over 1 moa out to 300 yards or a little better. The bottom gun was one of the last good 99 s (even tho they called it an 1895) Tribute 75th Anniversary gun also in .308. I hunted it , carefully, but it was not as finely finished as the 99F , and not as svelt in the wood departmen even tho a straight grip with an octagon barrel. I got a grand for it a few years ago.
troy fairweather
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I lost a lot of stuff when Irene hit, house, many guns, about 50k in New snap-on tools, two 71 c10 pickups all my clothes, just about everything.
The wierd thing is, it was my grandmother's birthday,she passed in 96 her name was Irene.
iF guns to through a flood they can be saved, but it's a lot of work.
That's a major bummer!
Charlie98
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My first 99 was a 99F in .308... it's a fantastic gun even if someone Bubba'd the finish a little. I liked it so much I bought a 99B (I believe,) a straight-lever take-down .30-30 from the late '20's if I did my research right. I like it, but it's not all the 99F is. 'Svelt' is the word I use, also, to describe my 99F...
Got the magazine from @edwardware yesterday. Just gotta get a care package together for the molokai family...guess milks upto like 14 bucks a gallon now, so we're sending a bunch of stuff, and the mags going with the rest.
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One of my favorite rifles is a Savage model 99R in 250-3000. The Savage 99 is a neat rifle, that was way ahead of it time. Even the rounds they were chambered for were advanced, for their time. Some were used as a starting, for rounds we have today. The 308 and 22-250 are good examples. I have read a good bit about Author Savage. He was a very interesting man. He is responsible for a lot of the things we have today, including radial tires. The Savage model 99 my be ugly, until you really handle one and use it. Then you start to appreciate it for what it is.
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That's OK, Troy... we still like you.
I sold my Marlin 336 after the first range session with my Savage 99... If there is a classier lever-gun, I don't know what it is.
My model 71 is feeling triggered by this statement.
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Such as the 300 Savage being the basis of the 7.62 NATO round?! And all subsequent cartridges? Or that the 22 sav. HP could take 400 lb tigers and cape buffalo over 100 years ago? Or that both, in addition to 250 sav are all still produced and used all over the world? Or that we are talking about the years-ahead "hammerless lever action" M1899 that is 120 years old on this new fangled thing called the in-ter-net...
Im a big fan of both Savage and Stevens. Glad thats who owns Stevens. Seems like a perfect fit.
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My model 71 is feeling triggered by this statement.
my 71 is perfectly at home snuggled up next to the 99’s. He knows he’s the bigger brother and can whip their behinds.
Length isn't the issue. The 284 is wider in diameter than the 308 family of cartridges, which is why it uses a different magazine. Using a 308 family mag in a 284 might work, but I suspect that Savage went to the trouble to make a different magazine for a good reason.
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