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    Measure the OD of YOUR rifle's muzzle.
    If it's under .610", no deal; if it's over .610", you're good to go.
    Shoot!! not my lucky day pietro. My using a tight stainless caliper. My T-D barrels OD at muzzle measured .568. "Pretty skinny barrel no doubt"
    Although after measuring 2 or 3 times I kinda felt disappointed a millisecond or two. Never the less you did saved me (to & from JES) insured postage mola >and that sir make the info passed/along much appreciated. My Regards & Thanks, O_M

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    Dec 1, 2007, a young man wandered into the Monroe gun show with a 1904 Sav 99 in 30-30 he got when his elderly neighbor died.
    I did not dicker him down, but paid the full $560 he wanted.
    Looks like it was treated like a safe queen, and I continued the tradition.

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    I would up the ante a bit for deer hunting, to something on the order of 180-190 grain bullets with as flat a nose that you can find. Push it with a charge of enough 3031/4895/4064 to get you as close to 2000fps as you dare. 1700-1900 does it for me. I've knocked deer a*s-over-tin cups with such loads, while those hit with 150-160 RN's died hard. Keep your bullet alloy as soft as you can get away with too. Savage M1899H's in .303 and .30-30 have spent more time with me in the deer woods than most others in recent years.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Clark View Post
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    Dec 1, 2007, a young man wandered into the Monroe gun show with a 1904 Sav 99 in 30-30 he got when his elderly neighbor died.
    I did not dicker him down, but paid the full $560 he wanted.
    Looks like it was treated like a safe queen, and I continued the tradition.
    That old gal needs to go huntin'. She can put her safe queen crown back on afterwards.

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    Quote Originally Posted by gnoahhh View Post
    ...Keep your bullet alloy as soft as you can get away with too....
    What about cheating a bit with somewhat harder alloy for everything else; but softer, even if it leads a smidge, for hunting only?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Landy88 View Post
    What about cheating a bit with somewhat harder alloy for everything else; but softer, even if it leads a smidge, for hunting only?
    Depends entirely on accuracy results in the individual gun, but sure, why not.

    I have a lifetime supply of WW's, tin, and pure (or close to pure) lead so I tend toward the soft end of things for everything. My stash of linotype and monotype is dwindling to a couple hundred pounds so I've started rationing it.

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    overmax, just have jes rebore it to 32 special. plenty of good molds available.

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    Try a HP mold.

    I have had outstanding results with a 311041 hp cast in a med. alloy of 95/2.5/2.5. in a 303 savage and 30 herret contender. Lots easier than making softnose bullets.

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    Quote Originally Posted by NorthMoccasin View Post
    overmax, just have jes rebore it to 32 special. plenty of good molds available.
    JES starts out at .33 caliber. Too bad for .32 Special and 8mm fans.

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    We love ours. It is an early model with the tang sight. Shoots great!


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    Would it not be wonderful if Savage brought back the model 99? Even if they would just remake some barrels in .223 Rem, 243 Win, 6.5x55 Sweede or Creedmore and 25-06 I would be hunting for a Savage 99 and then a 6.5x55 Sweede new barrel pronto. Loaded with a 120 gr soft pointed j word bullet it would be a perfect coyote predator hunting firearm. Sweet handling, light, accurate and very good looking. What's not to like?
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    Currently casting, reloading and shooting: 223 Rem, 6.5x55 Sweede, 30 Carbine, 30-06 Springfield, 30-30 WCF, 303 Brit., 7.62x39, 7.92x57 Mauser, .32 Long, 32 H&R Mag, 327 Fed Mag, 380 ACP. 9x19, 38 Spcl, 357 Mag, 38-55 Win, 41 Mag, 44 Spcl., 44 Mag, 45 Colt, 45 ACP, 454 Casull, 457 RB for ROA and 50-90 Sharps. Shooting .22 LR & 12 Gauge seldom and buying ammo for same.

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    Couldn't work in .25-06 and probably not in 6.5x55, they had to change the action some to get it to accept the .308 and .243. Also, the magazine rotors are pretty caliber specific, you most likely couldn't just change out a barrel and expect it to work.

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    when I was a teen my dad had a 99e in 243 and I had a 99 in 303,ive been looking for 15 years for a few nice ones.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Texas by God View Post
    JES starts out at .33 caliber. Too bad for .32 Special and 8mm fans.

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    The .35-30 is a grand old wildcat; and, despite the envy it'd cause me, may be a great fit.
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    Would it not be wonderful if Savage brought back the model 99?
    Oh boy that would make my day.

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    Being an old guy I forget when Savage changed the bolt from Square back to round back. The 30/30 were prone to crack the square back actions so check the action before shooting them much.

    The newer rounded back had none of the early problems and are good to go. Also in the 99 spritzers or pointed bullets are fine and will stretch yardage you can shoot.

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    One of the local gunshops has a Savage 1899A takedown in .30-30 in really nice shape. I have thought about buying it but am short of funds at the moment or I probably would jump on it.
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    Not particularly a fan of the 99, but if I ever stumble over one in 30 30, it will be very hard to pass.
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    Quote Originally Posted by David LaPell View Post
    One of the local gunshops has a Savage 1899A takedown in .30-30 in really nice shape. I have thought about buying it but am short of funds at the moment or I probably would jump on it.

    No disrespect, David - but the Model 1899A was a solid frame; the takedown version was the Model 1899B.

    My 1899A was so stamped on the LH side of the front receiver ring, and I've seen 1899B's marked in the same location (as B's).


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    No disrespect, Pietro, but the M1899A and M1899A Short Rifle were both offered as takedowns after 1909 and 1917 respectively, for more money. The M1899B's (octagon barrel models) and M1899C's (half-octagon barrels) were never offered as takedowns. (This from "The Ninety-Nine, A History of the Savage 99 Rifle", Doug Murray, and borne out by observations among the Savage collector groups I hang with.)

    1909 was also the cutoff point for the square backed bolts (which had a nasty tendency to crack at the square corners of the receiver mortise which butts against the bolt), also referenced by the 90,000 serial number. In later years Savage refused to perform repairs on pre-1909 guns and insisted that such guns have their receivers replaced with the newer design ones.

    M1899H carbines were introed in 1905, takedown versions offered 1909 and thereafter. (Most H's after 1909 were takedowns.) .22 HiPower introed in the 1899H in 1912.

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