Mike,
Love those pics of your pop carrying that old Savage 99!
Those older guys with an older rig they've carried for decades is always so darn cool!
In our family, that would have been considered a magnum... as my granddad and uncles, I think a 30/30 Lever Action was the bread and butter firearm for almost every one of them.... and when I was a kid, they were pretty old then... stuff purchased back in the 20s or 30s... anything from the 40s was relatively new...
but there were some 32 Win Specials,38/55s, 32/40s, & 44/40s in the mix as I recall....
