My brother talked my father into buying a 99F in 308 in 1973.
My father had a machine gun patent and the military had dropped off crates of 7.62x51mm ammo, even though it was on the wrong kind of belt.
http://www.google.com/patents/US3894471To use up this ammo we teen agers got a 308.
It as amazingly accurate, and then my brother shot flares from it.
My brother sold it.
Then it got rebarreled with a new barrel from Savage.
That was installed by an incompetent gunsmithing who claimed he was the best gunsmithing in the state. The headspace was a full thread too big.
By then I was an adult. I found out about the missing family heirloom, bought it back, and took it a real gunsmith, the late Randy Ketchum.
I have it now and have hunted with it.
Yikes! is has mold on the stock. I am not doing a good job of taking care of this family heirloom.