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I have a rotary magazine Model 99 in .284.

The year after I pounded away at my would-have-been first deer with a bolt action 20 gauge shotgun with mixed buck and slugs and it subsequently managed to make it far enough for an older couple to claim Pops figured I needed a rifle.

A friend of his had this odd caliber lever gun and he figures you can't get the ammo for it anymore so he sells the Savage Model 99 (practically new) in .284, leather case, Leupold scope and 6 boxes of ammo to Pops for $100.00 :-)

We scoured local hole-in-the wall hardware/sporting good stores for ammo, eventually netting something like a dozen more boxes (he got 4 or 5 of them in Broadway, VA. they're still proudly sporting their $5.75 price tags) My Dad admonished me to treat the spent casings like they were gold, I think I only ever lost 1. I don't think I have gone through more than a box of ammo back then, and it's still at their house, though I'll pick it up in the fall when back for a Match in N.C.

It is a damn fine rifle, and as previously mentioned does pack a whallop, at least back when I weighed under 150.

Welcome to the forum, Axenolith. $100 was a steal for that package. List price back in the 60's for rotary 284's was $133 or higher (depending on year). They sell for a bit more nowadays..

Amazing how much they have gone since this started

A loaf of bread was a nickle when I was a kid. What's your point?

A loaf of bread is bout $2.50 now. That is his point.

What is yours?

Axenolith, seven years on the 24HRC. Glad your first posting was here on the Savage Collectors Forum.

I wish I’d bought a bunch of 99’s when they were cheaper. I discovered them late in my life. I guess that is my point. Things are going up like crazy.

I about peed myself when I read that the OP bought the rifle for $200! Damn!
I paid $500 for a 48' EG 300 with Stith mounted Weaver and giggled on my way home....

I've never seen and don't expect to see a rotary .284..... just don't...
I'd love to find an F in .300, checkered and lever safety and factory DT... my ideal 99.

I owned a Win 88 in .284 for a while. Nice rifle, but terrible trigger. Ran Speer 130 Hot Cores in it for Blacktails and it worked just fine. Anything longer was definitely going to be intruding on powder capacity.

Bought this 284 about a year ago. Cut checkered, stock had been cut, recoil pad added. I found a cut checkered stock to replace the original. I load 120 Barnes for it. It’s a sub inch gun with that load, folded that buck right up. I paid 1300.00 for it. I’d like to find another.