Here's a '55 243 Featherweight with a stock carved by my dad in the 60's, and a .300 from 1937, probably refinished. I love these rifles but they seem underappreciated to me. Hope these pics. work out. I'm having photobucket problems. OOPs. There's my dirty feet in one photo.

Nice toes! Oh, I mean nice gun

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Still Running Against the Wind

Very nice rifles, but I can't remember ever seeing one for sale locally even when they were in production. They seemed to be regionally popular with most of them being sold in the Northeast or upper Midwest or at least that is where I have seen most of them.

I have a post war 99F in .308. I love it, accurate, handles great, and it's truely ambidexterous.

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Wayne
Torn & Frayed

Had one in 308, shorty carbine. Wonderful platform, heavy to carry, very loud. Accurate. Buddy borrowed it, managed to get muzzle down in snowdrift.

Shot gun, obstructed barrel, missed elk. Bulged barrel. Traded off to gunsmith.

Miss it.

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Dum vivimus Vivamas

I'm in Sacramento. There's always some around. On one of our trips up to Oregon I wnnt into a gun shop in this logging town. There was about twelve in this one place, all used. Anecdotle, but they were no doubt very popular in this wooded country.

Handy gun. Great caliber. Lucky elk. Sad story. Smiley Face.

My oldest boy and his first deer - Savage 99 in 250/3000.

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“What you got, ain’t new.”

My two passions are Smiths and Savage 99's. I am up to five of the Savages (I got a late start). I have an 1899 250/3000, an 1899A in .303, a T in 30/30, and two EG's, a .250 and a .300. Here are the T and the EG in .250.



And the 1899 in 250/3000



Not the greatest pics, but no feet in them.

Used to collect them until the prices started going nuts and competition for the nicer ones too cutthroat a while back. Sold them all off but one, a worn 99G 300 gray, wood rat that has a nicer trigger than any lever gun should and shoots lights out.

John Moses Browning didn't often get out-designed, but IMHO when old Arthur Savage came up with the 99 he pretty much put all the Winchesters on the trailer.

I have a 99 take down with a 18" barrel in 30 30. I have owned it for 50 years. It was my first deer rifle. Many of them were in 303 Savage, 300 Savage and latter 308.

Fred P............

My first deer rifle in 1958 was a 99r with Williams peep sight cal 300 Savage; later inherited my Grandfathers early 99 (octagon barrel) with a Weaver scope in .303 Savage (ammo no longer made but have found some hand loads here and there) passed both of the on to my son as I no longer hunt or reload. (still go to the range with hand guns )...... lots of memory's with the 99s'

I owned a .300 exactly like yours except I had the bolt jeweled. Used it when I lived in Wisconsin and, regrettably, sold it when I gave up deer hunting. It was the perfect gun for that purpose with a 2X scope.

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"Nevermore"

I have two, a 99E .300 and a 99F .308. Both have Williams aperture sights. I refuse to scope them. The .300 is the single most reliable repeating rifle I have ever used. It chambers everything I feed it without fail, including cast SWC revolver bullets. The .308 is flawless with all "normal" ammunition but balks when it is fed the SWC. My .300 is currently in "tactical lever rifle configuration" with a black and green painted wood stock and black metal. I am carefully considering a synthetic stock from MPI Stocks (the only outfit I know of that makes a synthetic for a Model 99) and then maybe my .308 will get "the works." The 99 is one of the best rifles ever made; the modern mass produced junk can not compare.

Dave Sinko

Whats not to like about a lever action?
I love looking at the Savage 99's but I don't think I could bring myself to take one as sweet as that into the woods, so I'd never own it. I have a Henry h001, a Winchester 94ae, and three Marlins, a 336w, 1894c and a 336xlr. None are safe queens. Now if I ever come across a beater Savage that shoots straight I would get it. Otherwise I'll be happy to admire someone elses display piece.

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I have a 250/3000, it's one of my favorite rifle.

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Al
Have Gun Will Travel

I like em.

Did you know Savage made pistols?

Hey, a gun shop here (Sacramento) has about six of those little autos. Probably one guy selling on consignment. What are they, .35 caliber of some kind? And are those .22's sixshooters or single shots made to look like sixguns?

The revolver look a likes are single shot 22s. The barrel and fake cylinder all rotate to the side where you can load one shell. They are called model 101s. They made 2 or 3 different models of auto pistols. They can be had in 32 or 380. They are great little pistols. Savage actually made a few 45 autos for military testing, but the 1911 won out and the rest is history. If the price isn't too bad on the autos, I'd suggest you pick one up and try it.

I've always admired them. Unfortunately I've never found one in good shape for a decent price.

99s are great rifles. Not much to complain about them. Their early models are classic looking sporting rifles with their stock designs, oct & 1/2 oct bbls, etc.

Re:Savage pistols.. they made a very few small vest pocket type semiauto pistols in 25acp also. Very rare items.

I would say they are still popular. Mine's not one of the really desireable ones (so say the collectors), but she still turned heads and started conversations at the range yesterday.

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Where's my dad's America?

Hy Wyatt; A uniquely beautiful, dynamic, and interesting lever action rifle. I like 'em.

As a young fellow I took a number of deer with a Model 99 .300 Savage. Regrettably, sold it with a group of guns in order to finance a collectible car. Picked up another .300 Savage though in 2005 that is even better than the original. It's a 1950s example, made just after Savage began providing the rifles factory drilled and tapped for scope use.



They shoot too. Here's a 5-shot group off the bench at 100 yards. Shot earlier this year with the rifle.


Big hunting with Dad. My eldest son was 5 months old in this photo. He's 27 now.

Great rifle and recolections. I kinda look like you did and my almost 27 year old son's baby pics. looks EXACTLY like your son in that picture. I mean dead on. He had a natural wide mohawk haircut when he was born like your kid seems to have.