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My 99 in 338 Federal is nearing completion, should have it by this deer season

Please post pics. That is going to be a sweet hunting rig.
I love my .300 but that round is one I have always thought would be awesome in a 99

I will, has a custom stock, so it had no collector value anyway, have 160 grain TTSX loaded to try in it

You can make some cool custom 99's.

38-55 takedown carbine






303




250-3000








Even have a .17 caliber Savage 99






270 Titus (300 Savage necked down to 277)

Beautiful rifles Roy

I plan to use my grandfather's 1899 chambered in 303 Savage this year.

I want to use a .303 H carbine if my eyes don't get any worse.

Just picked up my first model 99. Made in 1942 in 300 savage. I'm starting to load for it. I am a sucker for anything old and if it has a lever on it, even better.

I hadn’t thought about it in a 99 but the cartridge has interested me for a long time. It makes sense that it’s a good choice.

Not quite Benchrest quality, but decent for the old rifle!

Got the 338 Federal back, got it sighted in today. I’m well pleased with the work CTW did on this rifle.









Turkeys at bottom I’m hill, wonder what a 338 Fed would do to one??

Nice job Hanco. "...I wonder what a .338 Fed would do to one??"
Probably the same thing that a 180 grain RN Core-Lokt from a .308 did to a snowshoe hare for me once. Hare parts hanging from the brush nearby.
Or having read everything I could from Jack O'Connor back in my youth, he wrote that a bullet passes the line of sight twice. Once maybe 10-15 yards out and then again at the sighted in range. He wrote that was really handy to know potting a grouse for camp meat. Didn't work like that on a close in partridge that I saw one deer season. I could have .30-06ed a feather pillow and gotten the same partridge burger result. Not recommended and that was kid stuff. Now if I hunt deer, I only shoot deer.

Lovely rifle Hanco!

Look forward to pics of the game you take with it.

Couple pigs with it, two for one, went through momma pig, little pig too

Outstanding! now it's a certified porker slayer.

Nice rifles, looks like I need to get my 308 out and knock the dust off.

I picked up a 52 model 99r with a 4x weaver marksman back in the summer. I have several custom rifles, I get more joy hunting with this little 99 chambered in 300 savage. I am fixing to get it out and walk to my stand shortly after submitting this post. I think this is my "lucky rifle" I have carried it twice and seen an abundance of deer each time. I really enjoy it. I hope I can afford another one to be honest. Good luck fellas!!

Gettin the Fed broken in

Way to go Hanco. Great animals!