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Re: Picked up the 99T 250-3000 Today KeithNyst #11206510 05/25/16
Joined: Oct 2013 Posts: 2,042 N.E. Minn. KeithNyst OP Campfire Regular
OP KeithNyst Campfire Regular Joined: Oct 2013 Posts: 2,042 N.E. Minn.	Here's an outside lighted picture of it ... yes, I need to cut the grass (but the bees are happy).

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Re: Picked up the 99T 250-3000 Today KeithNyst #11206580 05/25/16
Joined: Mar 2002 Posts: 14,585 N E Kansas Rick99 Campfire Outfitter
Rick99 Campfire Outfitter Joined: Mar 2002 Posts: 14,585 N E Kansas	It even makes the DAMN-DEE-LIONS look good! Savage...never say "never". Rick... Join the NRA...together we stand, divided we fall!

Re: Picked up the 99T 250-3000 Today Fireball2 #11207254 05/25/16
Joined: Jun 2009 Posts: 9,324 Va 9 99guy Campfire Outfitter
99guy Campfire Outfitter 9 Joined: Jun 2009 Posts: 9,324 Va	Originally Posted by Fireball2 Originally Posted by 99guy Originally Posted by Fireball2 I'd like to start the bidding at $100. That would cover shipping and insurance. What would you give for the gun? I would think a serious collector would go $2500 on that gun and feel really good about it, considering the odds of finding another are basically ZERO. I went to an auction about 5 years ago to buy essentially the same gun in the same condition. I never even got my number raised up. The gun landed at 2700. That was then and this is now, but nevertheless, these don't show up everyday... "You cannot invade mainland America. There would be a rifle behind every blade of grass" ~Admiral Yamamoto~ When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty. ~Thomas Jefferson~

Re: Picked up the 99T 250-3000 Today 99guy #11207279 05/25/16
Joined: May 2011 Posts: 56,280 Oregon Fireball2 Campfire Kahuna
Fireball2 Campfire Kahuna Joined: May 2011 Posts: 56,280 Oregon	Originally Posted by 99guy Originally Posted by Fireball2 Originally Posted by 99guy Originally Posted by Fireball2 I'd like to start the bidding at $100. That would cover shipping and insurance. What would you give for the gun? I would think a serious collector would go $2500 on that gun and feel really good about it, considering the odds of finding another are basically ZERO. I went to an auction about 5 years ago to buy essentially the same gun in the same condition. I never even got my number raised up. The gun landed at 2700. That was then and this is now, but nevertheless, these don't show up everyday... Yep, and we have inflated the market since then! _______________________________________________________ An 8 dollar driveway boy living in a T-111 shack LOL

Re: Picked up the 99T 250-3000 Today KeithNyst #11208505 05/26/16
Joined: Dec 2011 Posts: 198 Central Wisconsin E ed7189 Campfire Member
ed7189 Campfire Member E Joined: Dec 2011 Posts: 198 Central Wisconsin	Beautiful gun! Out of curiousity, where did you pick it up from, a gun show, individual, on-line??

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Re: Picked up the 99T 250-3000 Today KeithNyst #11208769 05/26/16
Joined: Oct 2009 Posts: 7,684 BC transplant to n alberta And... norm99 Campfire Outfitter
norm99 Campfire Outfitter Joined: Oct 2009 Posts: 7,684 BC transplant to n alberta And...	Originally Posted by KeithNyst Here's an outside lighted picture of it ... yes, I need to cut the grass (but the bees are happy). you got horse shoes in the right place , that is about as new in the box as a guy can get with no box, does my heart good to see sleepers like that show up, norm There is not enough darkness in all the world to put out the light of even one small candle----Robert Alden . If it wern't entertaining, I wouldn't keep coming back.------the BigSky

Re: Picked up the 99T 250-3000 Today KeithNyst #11208783 05/26/16
Joined: Dec 2005 Posts: 13,027 In the woods... RAS Campfire Outfitter
RAS Campfire Outfitter Joined: Dec 2005 Posts: 13,027 In the woods...	A Savage 99 with a 20 inch barrel is about a perfect lever action. The 99T is the best of the lot. "...aspire to live quietly, and to mind your own affairs, and to work with your hands, as we instructed you, so that you may walk properly before outsiders and be dependent on no one." - Paul to the church in Thessalonica.

Re: Picked up the 99T 250-3000 Today RAS #11225274 06/03/16
Joined: May 2011 Posts: 56,280 Oregon Fireball2 Campfire Kahuna
Fireball2 Campfire Kahuna Joined: May 2011 Posts: 56,280 Oregon	Did everybody see that T? Wow. _______________________________________________________ An 8 dollar driveway boy living in a T-111 shack LOL

Re: Picked up the 99T 250-3000 Today KeithNyst #11254100 06/17/16
Joined: Oct 2013 Posts: 2,042 N.E. Minn. KeithNyst OP Campfire Regular
OP KeithNyst Campfire Regular Joined: Oct 2013 Posts: 2,042 N.E. Minn.	Since it is such a nice condition T, I went ahead and lettered it, so I would have the papers with it. It lettered as a 99-T, originally made in caliber 250-3000 Savage. It was shipped from the Savage factory in Utica, N.Y. on May 8, 1935. The original consignee is entered as the California Hardware Co. of Los Angeles, CA. Last edited by KeithNyst; 06/17/16.

Re: Picked up the 99T 250-3000 Today KeithNyst #11254148 06/17/16
Joined: Oct 2002 Posts: 9,100 new hampshire L Loggah Campfire Outfitter
Loggah Campfire Outfitter L Joined: Oct 2002 Posts: 9,100 new hampshire	Went to the "LEFT" coast where it was never used !!

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Re: Picked up the 99T 250-3000 Today Loggah #11254865 06/17/16
Joined: Mar 2002 Posts: 7,288 Tennessee Skidrow Campfire Tracker
Skidrow Campfire Tracker Joined: Mar 2002 Posts: 7,288 Tennessee	Quote Went to the "LEFT" coast where it was never used !! Hey, I live, unfortunately, on the "Left" coast and I do use my M99s. I mostly use them for hunting in Wisconsin though. Go tell the Spartans,Travelers passing by,That here,Obedient to their laws we lie. I'm older now but I'm still runnin' against the wind

Re: Picked up the 99T 250-3000 Today KeithNyst #12162330 07/22/17
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OP KeithNyst Campfire Regular Joined: Oct 2013 Posts: 2,042 N.E. Minn.	Since photobucket broke the links to the pictures in all my old posts (including this one), I am reposting pictures in threads of my nicer rifles. 14pics Pics 1-6

Re: Picked up the 99T 250-3000 Today KeithNyst #12162331 07/22/17
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OP KeithNyst Campfire Regular Joined: Oct 2013 Posts: 2,042 N.E. Minn.	Pics 7-12

Re: Picked up the 99T 250-3000 Today KeithNyst #12162333 07/22/17
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Re: Picked up the 99T 250-3000 Today KeithNyst #12162340 07/22/17
Joined: Feb 2010 Posts: 16,076 G gregintenn Campfire Ranger
gregintenn Campfire Ranger G Joined: Feb 2010 Posts: 16,076	Oh my! I don't know how I missed this the last go around. WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Re: Picked up the 99T 250-3000 Today gregintenn #12162402 07/22/17
Joined: Mar 2007 Posts: 1,916 Dearborn, Mich. O oldotter Campfire Regular
oldotter Campfire Regular O Joined: Mar 2007 Posts: 1,916 Dearborn, Mich.	For the second time...... my drool cup overflowith! "Its easier to fool people......Than convince them that they have been fooled." Mark Twain

Re: Picked up the 99T 250-3000 Today KeithNyst #12162453 07/22/17
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JeffG Campfire Tracker J Joined: Jul 2008 Posts: 6,575 upstate NY	That is still a top-ten 99! absolutely perfect rifle!! "...One Nation under God, indivisible, with Liberty and Justice for All" JeffG

Re: Picked up the 99T 250-3000 Today KeithNyst #12162474 07/22/17
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Calhoun Campfire 'Bwana Joined: Aug 2005 Posts: 43,740 Eastern Nebraska	Sweeeet.. “The Savage 99 Pocket Reference”. All models and variations of 1895’s, 1899’s and 99’s covered. Also dates, checkering, engraving.. Find at www.savagelevers.com

Re: Picked up the 99T 250-3000 Today Calhoun #12162525 07/22/17
Joined: May 2011 Posts: 56,280 Oregon Fireball2 Campfire Kahuna
Fireball2 Campfire Kahuna Joined: May 2011 Posts: 56,280 Oregon	Ohhhhhhhhhhhhh...... _______________________________________________________ An 8 dollar driveway boy living in a T-111 shack LOL

Re: Picked up the 99T 250-3000 Today KeithNyst #12163111 07/23/17
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steve99 Campfire Tracker Joined: Jul 2004 Posts: 4,721 Eastern PA	Thanks for reposting Keith, it's been fun looking at these again, some beauties for sure. "Americans have the right and advantage of being armed-unlike the citizens of other countries whose governments are afraid to trust the people with arms." James Madison

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