It's an honest question, but why ask it on a site dedicated to the love and preservation of the Savage 99? It's kind of like telling your ex's parents that you are falling in love with a new woman. Just not done. Surely there is another forum for such a question.
Besides, it's made in Japan and has two tubes, not one.
I posed the question on this forum because the people who use it love the model 99 as I do and have a great appreciation for its design and function. I am not asking the opinion of some people that may have handled one a couple of times and have very little experience actually hunting/shooting different models and calibers of it. Makes sense to me and is probably the most direct route to get the information that I am looking for. They are guns after all, not wives or family and I think we can discussions with this in mind.
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