Savage 308 99F disgusting?

[starmac]

I never knew there was a cabellas there, I have been to the bass pro shop down in that country back a few years ago. Where is the cabellas.

[starmac]

I read a book 30 some odd years ago, about trapping in alaska.
I don't remember the title or when it was printed, or even a lot of it's contents, but I do remember one line in it.

The author said a good rifle was a must, because of the bears, he suggested a model 99, 300 savage.

[TXGunNut]

I never knew there was a cabellas there, I have been to the bass pro shop down in that country back a few years ago. Where is the cabellas.

Fairly new store, west of Bass Pro on 170 @ I-35W. Just south of Texas Motor Speedway. Or borrow my car, it knows the way. Already has an empty rifle case in the trunk.

[starmac]

I hope I won't be in the neighborhood for a good while yet. Is it like most cabellas with truck parking.

[TXGunNut]

I hope I won't be in the neighborhood for a good while yet. Is it like most cabellas with truck parking.

Yes, first parking lot off 35W svc road. Give me a holler if you'll be around during a weekend. There's a good IHOP just S of there and I'd be up for a burger in the cafe upstairs @ Cabelas. Buffalo and Elk burgers pretty good.

[oscarflytyer]

They are foolish people, with short peckers.

Guilty!

I have a 99 in 284 Win. I want another 99. But it has to be either a 300 Savage or 250 Savage. I want one of the original Savage calibers. I would pass on a 308 unless I could get it very cheap, and then probably sell/trade it for the above. Just me.

[Four Fingers of Death]

When I lived in Sydney some 20+ odd years ago, there was an old guy that came to the range (probably about the age I am now, lol). He owned two rifles, an old Brno 22 which he used to hunt rabbits and foxes with and a 308 Savage which he used for everything else. He used a mixture of cast and jacketed bullets. He used mostly cast, saving the jacketed bullets for hunting out west where the ground is flat and the paddocks big, he used to use 125 Gn Nosler Ballistic Tips and for Sambar (elk sized) he used 180 Gn SAKO bullets.

He didn't see a need for another rifle. but occasionally pulled out a fine old double barrel shotgun which was used on everything from rabbits to foxes to ducks and even the odd round of skeet.

He was a bit of an identity with his Savage and the tray of reloads with the cast boolits and sometimes paperpatched boolits.

[TXGunNut]

I'm glad most folks don't much care for the guns I like. If they did I'd have to look longer and pay more.

[Boerrancher]

I'm glad most folks don't much care for the guns I like. If they did I'd have to look longer and pay more.

I will second that notion. I am glad that most of the folks around here are into big caliber bolt guns and all forms of black guns. I will stick with my older calibers in lever guns and my front stuffers. It is not that I have anything against black guns and I even own one or two, but they just don't have the appeal to me that the older guns do.

Best wishes,

Joe

[Ron.D]

I just love my 99. it was a .308. Had it rebored to .358, 16 twist. My favourite bush gun.

[Good Cheer]

Bought a used 99 in 308 specifically to have it rebored to .338Federal. I really should send it off. Got the dies. The RD mold. The brass. The gas checks. And now I got a week off and round tuit to spare. It's time.

[starmac]

Bought a used 99 in 308 specifically to have it rebored to .338Federal. I really should send it off. Got the dies. The RD mold. The brass. The gas checks. And now I got a week off and round tuit to spare. It's time.

I have thought for a while that that would make a fine rifle.


I was reading a book of hunting stories in alaska last might, where a guy got a goat at 300 yards with an old lever action action 300 savage. I didn't mention model, but it had to be a 99.

[Artful]

I used my Savage 99 in 358 for Coastal Mountain hunting in Oregon - good out to 250 yards and one shot kill every time.

I should look for one in 308 to go with it, being I have so many 30 caliber molds now.

[9.3X62AL]

I used my Savage 99 in 358 for Coastal Mountain hunting in Oregon - good out to 250 yards and one shot kill every time.

I should look for one in 308 to go with it, being I have so many 30 caliber molds now.

I have used much flimsier pretexts than this to justify gun purchases for a long time.

[rintinglen]

I have used much flimsier pretexts than this to justify gun purchases for a long time.

More truth in that statement than any 6 political speeches. I plead guilty.

[starmac]

I generally don't have to justify them, but 30 some odd years ago on my first anniversary I came home with a 10/22. This would not have been a big deal, but I had already bought a 44 and a 44 ruger carbine that week, sooo being pretty sharp I announced , this one is yours. All these years later she still believes that is her gun. lol
Now last week I sorta made the same mistake. I walked in with a 357, she knows I have never shot 357's so, I get the what is that for. Again being the sharp guy I am, I said it will be easier for you to handle, sho nuff she thinks it is hers. I started out with it the next day, and got the, where do you think you are going with my gun, it doesn't even get to live in the same place as mine. lol

What ever you do, DO NOT justify a firearm purchase by saying, this one is for you. lol

[Four Fingers of Death]

I once got a rifle in exchange for an agreement to reload for a guy I worked with at Long Bay Jail. I loaded him a batch or working up loads, handed them over with instructions on what to do, how to keep the various groups of five rounds at each powder level separate so I could see any pressure indicators and even gave him a ruled up sheet to record the groups with and also a couple of targets with multiple bullseyes and the load printed on each bull, etc. He was stoked and bought the rifle in next day and we shook on it. I took the rifle home and my wife was there when I got home and I proudly showed her the rifle and described how I was going to load ammo for the guy who gave it to me. My wife was suitably impressed and the gun went in the wardrobe in the bedroom.

Funnily enough, I never clapped eyes on the guy again. There were a lot of us working there then and what with rotating shifts, leave, etc it wasn't unusual to not see people for long periods. I eventually forgot about it.

Some time later, I bought another rifle and took it home. My wife was chatting over coffee with one of the neighbours and I had to walk past them with the rifle. SO I walked in like it was the most natural thing in the world to come home with a new (to me) rifle. I said hello and gave the wife a kiss as I went past and my wife said proudly " been loading ammo again?" Welllllllllll, I knew what she meant, but that was not what she asked, so I truthfully stated 'yep, always out in the garage on the loading press.' She then proudly told her friend how clever I was loading ammo in exchange for the rifles. I didn't tell any lies, but she didn't structure her question correctly, haha.

Next day at work I asked about the guy that I had loaded the ammo for, I had completely forgotten about him. I was told that he has secured a transfer to a jail in the country. I then remembered him talking about wanting to move out west. I rang the jail he had transferred to and they said that he had resigned and joined the Northern Territory prison service, thousands of miles away.

Cheapest rifle I ever got. That was in 1985, If he bobs up again, I will honour the deal, but I don't expect him to bob up in a hurry.

[jlchucker]

I'ld be happy as a dead pig in the sunshine to find a 99 in .308, for the right price.

I'd be happier to find one in the Model 99A version that they were selling about 20 years ago or thereabouts. The one with the schnabel forearm and straight grip. That one looked like a classic. I think they made them in a couple of other calibers, too--but 300 Savage may not have been one of them.

[jlchucker]

The biggest problem I see you might have with that M99, is you may never want to tote a bolt action afield again. lol

You have a point, but some of us lefties wouldn't mind--as long as the safety was up on the tang and not down on the lever. The latter configuration isn't quite as ambidexterous.

[starmac]

Mine has the safety on the lever, and I have never minded it (lefty) It also is the takedown model with the schnabel forearm. It didn't start life out as a 300 though. the caliber has been X'd out and re stamped sometimes years ago. Probably was originally a 30/30.