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Finding a gorgeous 99T in 300.
With a compass in the stock.
Period sling swivels I could live with. But a compass in an otherwise very high quality gun just makes me sob.
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but but it helps you find your way in life norm
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I need a compass. I don't trust the electronic one in my rhino. But I got even a sadder deal. I got a marlin 336 waffle top in 35 remington. Bubba tapped ON THE FREAKING BARREL. The mount is neither plum or able to hold tightly. Why they drilled two back ones on the receiver then two on the barrel? Who thinks of this stuff?
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I need a compass. I don't trust the electronic one in my rhino. But I got even a sadder deal. I got a marlin 336 waffle top in 35 remington. Bubba tapped ON THE FREAKING BARREL. The mount is neither plum or able to hold tightly. Why they drilled two back ones on the receiver then two on the barrel? Who thinks of this stuff? My question is,,,,,,,,,,,,,WHY in God's name did you buy it?????????????????
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Back in the day that seems to have been the accepted practice for D&T on the 336. I've got one with the barrel tap too. Mine was given to me when Dad bought the .308 F.
Makes no sense to me either but have seen many done that way.
Calhoun, buy it and get the stock fixed. Problem resolved.
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Buy it and leave the compass in place. Everyone should have a little bit of kitsch in his life! Kinda like having a plastic pink flamingo in the front yard. (Thanks to John Waters that is actually a mark of distinction among the hip set around Baltimore.) You too could be tragically hip!
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Meh, got a couple of really nice 99T's so I can let this one go. Compass is on the top of the buttstock, so no fix is going to be worth it. It is what it is. Too bad Les isn't still around. This is just screaming his name.
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I bought the 336 waffle top for $450. I can get it fixed for $40. The seller is willing to split the cost. I need inventory for lever fest west! Nutting thumps elk like a 220 grain 35 Rem! (That is my story and I am sticking to it!)
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The other D and T waffle top I got 4 $420 shot a .65 inch two shot group in 15 mph wind leaning over a Chevy venture hood using a synthetic saddle bag as a rest at 110 yards. Lever lotion 200 grain ammo. Leupold vxr 2x7. I am freaking JACKED!
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those Savage stick pins must be about the same size as those stock compasses, yes?
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Who cares. I would have bought it in a heart beat. At one time in the past that sort of thing was cool. The older I get the less I find myself concerned bout things like kick pads, sling swivels and the dreaded after market drilling. If it was done good and the rifle is still in nice shape then so what?! These things were largely done by guys who used their rifles and that's as good a footnote on the history of the 99 as it gets. I'll take the bargains.
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As more and more of the really nice "collectible" specimens disappear into safes, never to see the light of day again, I see nice ones with some very minor issues gaining foothold among collectors starting out.
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Buy it and leave the compass in place. Everyone should have a little bit of kitsch in his life! Kinda like having a plastic pink flamingo in the front yard. (Thanks to John Waters that is actually a mark of distinction among the hip set around Baltimore.) You too could be tragically hip! While at MD U in 74-76 they played the movie Pink Flamingos over and over. My neighbor across the hall watched it night after night, and described it every night. I never went to see the movie, and never wanted to see a Pink Flamingo since, Joe.
I'm not greedy, I just want one of each.
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Who cares. I would have bought it in a heart beat. At one time in the past that sort of thing was cool. The older I get the less I find myself concerned bout things like kick pads, sling swivels and the dreaded after market drilling. If it was done good and the rifle is still in nice shape then so what?! These things were largely done by guys who used their rifles and that's as good a footnote on the history of the 99 as it gets. I'll take the bargains. I got plenty of 99T's with d&t and sling swivels and even one with a recoil pad and cheek piece buttstock. No 99's at all with compasses. They drive me nuts.
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The compass is always a hoot. Seems to me it would do nothing more than point at the receiver and barrel. I'd take one if it didn't look like it was in letted with a dull pocket knife or sharp rock. I might even nick name the rifle "Pathfinder", after Natty Bumpoo in "Last of the Mohicans."
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I kind of want on with a compass in the buttstock. It's pure Americana history and I like that stuff.
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I have been lost could use a compass.
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Might not be ideal but I could live with a compass…personally, I would prefer that to a cut stock.
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I could live with a compass, especially if it got me a model I wanted and couldn't afford unbuggered, Joe.
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Marlin 336s and Remington 14/141s that weren't factory d&t often had the front base mounted on the barrel. Williams has a very nice 141 in 35 Rem that has been d&t in that manner.
I have a Marlin 336SC in 35 that has an older Williams 1-piece mount that has the 2 front screws d&t in the barrel.
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I think a one piece might have been better. This is a two piece and the front appears kitty wampus. I cannot bore sight a 30mm Burris tube.
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I think I'd have to be pretty lost to trust one of those little bent-needle butt compasses. I think I'd dig it out and glue in a buffalo head nickle, so I could call one of my friends on a pay phone when I finally made it out to a road.
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The old timers I knew carried their compasses in their pockets or pinned them on their suspenders or Malone and Woolrich coats. Most of them only owned one rifle their whole life and spent a months paycheck to have it. They were proud of them and took good care of them.
What would posses somebody to drill a hole in their gun and put a compass in it?
I never have and still don't get it.
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Livin' large here. I'm with Scott on this one, I think it's cool as all heck. 99F in tree hunnert Maybe one day they'll find me froze stiff up against a tree after walking in circles for 14 days in a blizzard clutching this rifle, the whole time staring at that little needle spinning around. there's worse ways to go.
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Got a 94 Win. that has a compass in the stock. I kind of like it. And it does point north, not towards the receiver.
I wouldn't add one to a gun but the mere presence of one wouldn't stop me from buying.
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Meh, got a couple of really nice 99T's so I can let this one go. Compass is on the top of the buttstock, so no fix is going to be worth it. It is what it is. Too bad Les isn't still around. This is just screaming his name. Hey Now, Les is the Only one, I have a Minty T in 250 that has a Compass on Top of the But Stock
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We were taught in the USMC to get 10 or 15 feet (or maybe it was 20) away from our little bitty M-16 to take a compass reading. I think they had less metal in them than a Sav. 99.
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Hell, I used to read a compass will riding around on an M60 tank. The compass always pointed north. North is north. The compass doesn't care where it is when it's used.
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The only place I wouldn't use a compass would be in the presence of a lot of electric current, such as standing under a high voltage power line. I just finished building an experiment that puts current through an 1/8" brass rod 6' long (with means to position it anywhere from 2" to 24" off the table top). Then a simple compass is placed underneath it. You would be surprised how the current effects the direction the needle points to.
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I used to do a lot of field mapping with a Silva Ranger Type 15 compass - frankly the best hand held compass on the market. I had a mapping job up near the crest of the Sierra Nevada that was in a campground with a locked metal gate. Like an idiot I used the gate for a mapping datum and when I got back to the office none of my angles made any sense. The magnetic pull of the gate messed every thing up. Luckily I had more than one day of work at the site and rapidly fixed my measurements up the next morning. Lesson learned, stay away from metal when shooting angles in the field with a magnetic compass.
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You mean the USMC made a mistake!?
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My dad had a compass mounted in the stock of his Remington 760. The irony is that we hunted in a part of northeast Minnesota that had so much iron ore in the rock you couldn't trust a compass.
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