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This is my first time posting pics, so I hope this works  This is Elmo and his 99      Can you see them? Elmo | ||
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That is a beautiful 99. I'm interested in the specs: Caliber, who made the stock etc. Thanks, Weagle | |||
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Stunning. I have always been a little partial to 99's. Who makes the stock and rear sight. I love that sight. So sleek. So shnazzy. Caliber and production date? -Spencer | |||
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One word on your rifle...ssswwweeeeeeet!!!! Mike Legistine actu quod scripsi? Never under estimate the internet community's ability to reply to your post with their personal rant about their tangentially related, single occurrence issue.  What I have learned on AR, since 2001: 1. The proper answer to: Where is the best place in town to get a steak dinner? is…You should go to Mel's Diner and get the fried chicken. 2. Big game animals can tell the difference between .015 of an inch in diameter, 15 grains of bullet weight, and 150 fps. 3. There is a difference in the performance of two identical projectiles launched at the same velocity if they came from different cartridges. 4. While a double rifle is the perfect DGR, every 375HH bolt gun needs to be modified to carry at least 5 down. 5. While a floor plate and detachable box magazine both use a mechanical latch, only the floor plate latch is reliable. Disregard the fact that every modern military rifle uses a detachable box magazine. 6. The Remington 700 is unreliable regardless of the fact it is the basis of the USMC M40 sniper rifle for 40+ years with no changes to the receiver or extractor and is the choice of more military and law enforcement sniper units than any other rifle. 7. PF actions are not suitable for a DGR and it is irrelevant that the M1, M14, M16, & AK47 which were designed for hunting men that can shoot back are all PF actions. 8. 95 deg F in Africa is different than 95 deg F in TX or CA and that is why you must worry about ammunition temperature in Africa (even though most safaris take place in winter) but not in TX or in CA. 9. The size of a ding in a gun's finish doesn't matter, what matters is whether it’s a safe ding or not. 10. 1 in a row is a trend, 2 in a row is statistically significant, and 3 in a row is an irrefutable fact. 11. Never buy a WSM or RCM cartridge for a safari rifle or your go to rifle in the USA because if they lose your ammo you can't find replacement ammo but don't worry 280 Rem, 338-06, 35 Whelen, and all Weatherby cartridges abound in Africa and back country stores. 12. A well hit animal can run 75 yds. in the open and suddenly drop with no initial blood trail, but the one I shot from 200 yds. away that ran 10 yds. and disappeared into a thicket and was not found was lost because the bullet penciled thru. I am 100% certain of this even though I have no physical evidence. 13. A 300 Win Mag is a 500 yard elk cartridge but a 308 Win is not a 300 yard elk cartridge even though the same bullet is travelling at the same velocity at those respective distances. | |||
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Whew...Thanks T. Carr for the pic posting tip That's 99E in .308, with an XS System Ghost Ring sight. I bought the semi-inletted black walnut stock from a place in Kansas who shall remain nameless. The stock had some serious flaws so I had to modify it extensively. I did the ebony work myself. It got the full Atkinson forend bedding treatment and is fully bedded where receiver meets the buttstock internaly It has pachmayr flush swivel sling mounts because 1. I like them a lot (My Steyr's have them) 2. The 99 uses a machine thread sling stud to mount the forend to the barrel and the damn thing tends to loosen up with sling motion. It has a WestSystem marine epoxy finish on the stock and KGI Gunkote epoxy on the barrel and action instead of blueing. The rifle is for bad weather hunting where rain and snow make a scope useless. (Think whitetails in the thick northern 5 degree Wisconson woods at Thanksgiving)  This rifle shoots "minute of paper plate" offhand with the ghost ring, and 1 3/4" groups, scoped and benched @ 100yds with a 150 grn Partiton @ 2700 fps Regards Elmo | |||
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Absolutely beautiful rifle Elmo. I don't want to re hash bad memories for you but what was the problem with your timber? What ever you did to fix it, it surely worked. | |||
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That is very nice, I know little about 99's, but always wanted one. I plan to someday build a 99 in 284, I have a NIB 284 clip which are very hard to come by. I have a 7mm unturned blank and my gunsmith buddy has a tang safety 99 in his scrap pile, just have to get him to get it cleaned up and barreled. I have a two piece blank and Dennis Olson has a pattern. It will come together someday. If mine comes out half that nice would be pleased. That is about as nice as I've laid eyes on. Billy, High in the shoulder (we band of bubbas) | |||
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Very nice !!! Who is the hot blonde in the first picture? | |||
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Stock problems 1. The action inletting was 3/32" off center line and about 1/16" out of plumb. 2. The bolt hole, where the buttstock attaches to the rear of the action was about 3/16" low and left at the action and not concentric to the larger countersunk hole bored in from the butt. The attachment bolt head could not reach the bottom of the counter sunk hole without binding up against the side of the hole. 3. The forend schnable was undersized and mangled but that didn't matter because it had warped out so far to the left, that it wasn't useable anyway. 4. The action end of the forend was undersized to the point that when the round tenon was mated to the action, the bottom of the forend didn't extend to the bottom of the action. So I had to whittle a "sliver moon" shape off the bottom of the round tenon to lower the forend enough to be just proud of the bottom of the action. Of course this caused... 5. The top of the forend to drop below the centerline of the barrel...which didn't matter any way because the jackass who rough machined the damn thing left a big ol' planer snipe (think divot) in the top of the forend where the barrel joins the action. Which of course meant that getting rid of the snipe would lower the top of the forend even farther below the barrel centerline. You folks might be wondering by now, why didn't I just send the P.O.S. back.....and the answer is... HELL, I DON'T KNOW....I GUESS I WAS JUST BORED  The fixes 1. Whittle here, scrape there, 4 or 5 bedding operations (whilst being very nervous about glueing the action to the stock) and a little artfull laminating of a tiny wood strip to hide exposed bedding along one side of bottom tang. 2. Bore countersink hole all the way through and use epoxy filler to rebuild bolt shaft hole 3. Drive 120 mile round trip to buy ebony and whittle a new schnable. 4. Rebuild tenon back to roundness with acraglas gel, while doing Ray's forend bedding trick. 5. Scarfed two strips of ebony to the ebony schnable and laminated them to the top of the forend and ran them all the way back to the action. This actually looks pretty good and I like the way it turned out. See pic #4 Regards Elmo | |||
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GSP7 The hot blonde is the real Elmo He's 10 years old and is the best dog there ever was.  Elmo | |||
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Nice looking 99, awesome... I've got a 99-358, which i've thought several times to restock...might get off my duff and do that some day jeffe opinions vary band of bubbas and STC hunting Club Information on Ammoguide about the416AR, 458AR, 470AR, 500AR What is an AR round? Case Drawings 416-458-470AR and 500AR. 476AR, http://www.weaponsmith.com | |||
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That could be the prettiest Savage 99 I have yet seen! (Nice dog, too!) "Bitte, trinks du nicht das Wasser. Dahin haben die Kuhen gesheissen." | |||
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I've never owned a 99, but someday! Very nice! NRA Life Member, Band of Bubbas Charter Member, PGCA, DRSS. Shoot & hunt with vintage classics. | |||
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Elmo You should post those pics over on 24hourcampfire.com in the Savage Collector's forum!! That is a really nice rifle. I have a takedown 99 EG in .300 Savage at the smith's(Roger Ferrell's) getting a new pad and some steel scope mounts(it was already D & T'd) I am debating on having Roger do the full deal and refinish and re-blue it also. Mike | |||
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