My grandfather's 99 was the first .250 I was exposed to growing up, with Dad saying, "This gun doesn't go 'bang'. It goes 'meat'!" A 700 Classic, a Dakota 76 Alpine, and a M70 compact classic in .250AI all agree. I was told that the 700 wasn't enough gun for pronghorn on my first trip in 2001. 100gr Hornady at 3003fps disproved that thought. The 99 has 86 deer, three bear, and a horse to its credit, with all but three animals taken with 87gr bullets. (The horse was in '44, when Dad was home on leave from Italy. His stepfather couldn't stand to put it down, so Dad did the job. One shot.)
"Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing." Robert E. Howard
