Savage 99 Dilemma

[vzerone]

The price seems pretty good, and look at it this way: If you bought a $325 rifle, wouldn't you buy another one soon? You can only shoot one rifle at a time, and this sounds like you might get a lot of use per dollar from.

What has always puzzled me is why they gave up the rotary magazine. It doesn't even have the fiendishly fine machining job of the early (i.e. real) Mannlicher-Schoenauers. I think they could have kept a lot more of the market by keeping that.

Probably let it go because it was harder to make and cost more to do so.

[Ballistics in Scotland]

Probably let it go because it was harder to make and cost more to do so.

I'm sure that is what they thought, but far from convinced they were right. It was a unique rifle, and there was a market niche in which people didn't count the last pennies.

[starmac]

Well they didn't make changes because they were selling too many of them for a profit. The 99's were way ahead of their time, but popularity eventually ran low enough they couldn't sell enough of them at a price point with enough profit margin for them. I tend to think they come out with several calibers and made changes trying everything they could to keep them online, but the buyers were just not there in significant numbers.

[380AUTO]

So, did you get it?

Yes I did I'll do a follow up on it

[380AUTO]

Okay guys went back yesterday and got the rifle. I appreciate the help when I went back I noticed the bluing was a bit more worn than I had remembered BUT I went with the mindset to buy it and I did. I ended up paying the sticker price but I know if someone else would have beat me to it would've took me a while to get over the fact I didn't jump on it.

[380AUTO]

There she is. Almost 88 years old tight as a vault.

[Texas by God]

There she is. Almost 88 years old tight as a vault.

Very nice. That gun is saying- "To the hunt!" Well done; that money won't be missed.
Best, Thomas.

[vzerone]

Wow! Is that a special anti-tank 99? It sure makes you look small standing next to it!! Nah, nice rifle, you're lucking to have it. One rifle I don't own, yet.

[keyhole]

There she is. Almost 88 years old tight as a vault.

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Congratulations! That is truly a classic. There is nothing else like them. The 1899/99 have to be the best looking lever action rifles out there.
Let us know how it shoots.

[MostlyLeverGuns]

Well GOOD, now you have started down the path.

[Ballistics in Scotland]

There she is. Almost 88 years old tight as a vault.

Very much like many of us. But we may all be alive and healthy in the age of the ray-gun. I think you could pay a lot more than $100 for that sight nowadays. You got a good deal.