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For you wrong handed riflemen

Ricci.Wright
The Savage 99 is a very nice lever gun. Great for left handed shooters and nice and flat so a good horseback gun as well. This one is an older gun with the brass cartridge counter in the rotary magazine. The .300 Sav is a pretty decent caliber from what I understand. It is just $400.00 right now with eight hours to go.
https://www.gunbroker.com/item/853564381
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  • SCOUT5
    I'll follow it.  A 99 is a rifle I want but have just a bought crossed  off the list just because I have more rifles than I can hunt with now.
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  • bullshot
    I have one also 1953 in 308 that is pretty minty for it's age. this isn't the best picture however.
     







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  • bullshot
    $400. is a giveaway price btw.
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  • Warbirds

    Nice rifle.


    A lever gun in an unusual caliber isn’t on my list (I would never actually shoot that rifle) but I hope it does well.


    Good luck!

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  • BobJudy
    Warbirds said:

    Nice rifle.


    A lever gun in an unusual caliber isn’t on my list (I would never actually shoot that rifle) but I hope it does well.


    Good luck!

    A pretty common and well thought of cartridge in its day. Most companies still offer loads for it. Its performance was the basis for the 7.62/308 when the military was looking to replace the 30/06. I have a 1949 vintage 99 in 300 that has a Williams receiver sight on it. slightly different model as mine has the Schnabel fore end. IMOP it is a much better design than the Win or Marlin levers. Spool magazine is easy to load and unload and can use them new fangled pointy bullets. Bob


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  • Warbirds
    BobJudy: 31534856740379/comments/31534857379355
    Warbirds said:

    Nice rifle.


    A lever gun in an unusual caliber isn’t on my list (I would never actually shoot that rifle) but I hope it does well.


    Good luck!

    A pretty common and well thought of cartridge in its day. Most companies still offer loads for it. Its performance was the basis for the 7.62/308 when the military was looking to replace the 30/06. I have a 1949 vintage 99 in 300 that has a Williams receiver sight on it. slightly different model as mine has the Schnabel fore end. IMOP it is a much better design than the Win or Marlin levers. Spool magazine is easy to load and unload and can use them new fangled pointy bullets. Bob


    It is a cool cartridge, I am just beyond capacity to add any more dies, brass and powder. It could be chambered in a dozen other calibers. I just don’t have the capacity.

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  • wolfpack
    Nice rifle in a vintage caliber. If I didn't already have a 99 in 300 savage I would be interested. The 99 was a little ahead of its time
    when it was introduced.  Plenty of ammo still available for the old 300 savage and it is a great deer caliber. Can't go wrong with this rifle.
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  • mrs102
    Everyone was left handed until they committed their first sin.
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  • Rocky Raab
    That's a pretty sinister claim, Dexter.
    (How many will get that?)
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  • Ricci.Wright
    Should have tied their hands behind their backs when they were young. :o  
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  • Sam06
    Should have tied their hands behind their backs when they were young. :o  

    They basically did that to my Grand pa.  He was left handed and his parents made him do everything with his right hand.  He was a lousy shot with a rifle and pistol but a good shot with a shotgun. 

    The only thing he did left handed was fish.
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  • Rocky Raab
    I thought the "switch over" was for muscles below the neck. Not applicable to face muscles.
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  • Sam06
    Rocky Raab said:
    I thought the "switch over" was for muscles below the neck. Not applicable to face muscles.

    I would think it would effect eye dominance too.
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  • drobs
    I've read good things about the 300 Savage cartridge. Never got interested in Savage 99's though. Kind of ugly in my eyes. The bolt / receiver looks cheap / unrefined.
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  • Rocky Raab
    I read an article years ago about the 300 Sav. Can't remember anything about it except for one passage. It described how the annual deer camp featured hunters with many rifle/cartridge combinations. Including Gramps and his .300 Savage. One would hear various "Boom! Boom!" and "Bang!" blasts with unknown results, but when you heard a distinctive "Blam" that was Gramps, and there'd be a deer down.
    What a fitting description of a fine but lamentably overlooked cartridge.
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  • SCOUT5
    drobs said:
    I've read good things about the 300 Savage cartridge. Never got interested in Savage 99's though. Kind of ugly in my eyes. The bolt / receiver looks cheap / unrefined.
    Drops.  Look it up and see the how and why  that action works the way it does.  Actually a good system for it's purpose.  A lever gun that could handle those pressures and be marketed at a realistic price was quite an engineering feat for it's time.   Rotary magazine to handle spitzer style  bullets.  Unrefined is not a label I could give it.  But preferences vary and that makes our world interesting.
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