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Wondering if there are many people out there hunting with a the Savage 99? In any caliber for what every critter. And how is yours set-up, scope, peep sight.....?

Recently I found a good, 1958 vinatage, Savage 99 in .300 Savage. It now wears a nice ol' Lyman 57SA peep sight. Can't wait to get it sighted in then take it out chasing deer & hogs!

It will be loaded with the Remington 180 grn round nose cor-lokt ammo (recently discontinued). Used a rifle / ammo set up like this to take my first bull moose in Alaska when I was about 12 years old!

So what do you have??

I use an early 50's Savage 99EG in 300 Savage with a Leupold M8 4x with Weaver tip mounts. Been using 180 grain corelokts. Gun seems to like about anything I feed it. Good luck.

I have a "few" Savage 99's that get into the woods quite a bit. By preference, most are scoped....but are mounted in the old Weaver Swing-mounts that allow instant use of iron sights if needed (desired).

I do have one with a tang peep sight in .30-30 that is used for brush hunting at times and the peep works just fine. I hunt mostly deer and hogs and depending on my mood that day the caliber of choice may be .300 Savage, .308, .358 and even occationally a .243. The .308 and .358 are my normal choice for any game larger than deer size.

The sentamental favorite in the gun room is a .250-3000 that has taken deer for 4 generations of my family.

Came across a good deal on a M99 in 300 Savage about a year ago. Put an old Redfield 2 3/4X ccope on it. 1st group with factory Remington 150gr was less than MOA! Had some old 150gr Ballistic Tips on the shelf; picked a light load of 4064 and took her hunting last year. Dropped a mature buck in his tracks. Hoping to encounter a sounder of hogs this fall. Fun gun!

This year I got a 1940s EG in .300 Savage. It's not drilled, so I'll hunt it with open sights. Haven't had time to get a good load for it and sight it in, so it'll probably sit at home this year, but a some point, it'll go out after deer.

hunt with a 99 every year... all sort of configurations... open sights, tang sights, stith mounted scopes, factory scoped. Actually not sure if I have ever hunted with one with a tang sight though no reason not too at all... planning to soon as I am planning to take an early SRC buffalo hunting with a tang sight.

I have a mid 50's 99EG in .300 Savage that is not drilled and that I put a period correct Marbles tang sight on after removing the rear sight. I've hunted deer a few times with it but never killed anything with it yet. One of these days I will.

The 99 likes to travel. Been to Canada, Argentina, but it really liked Africa:

I hunt with a 99 every year. This 99A has always been scoped and gets carried the most. Scope is 1x4 Leupold.

1910 savage 99 in 3030. took a few texas deer, 1 hog and going to canada this october for larger deer. hornady leaverlution 160 gr. shoots really nice.

I didn't even know you could scope them....

I've hunted whitetails with my pristine 1953 Model 99EG for a good many years. I reload Nosler Ballistic Tip bullets in front of 40.8 grains of H4895 sparked by standard Winchester large rifle primers in Winchester cartridge cases.

This combination gives me a chronographed muzzle velocity of 2635 fps with a deviation of only 3 fps (+1/-2 fps) and shoots into less than an inch (3 shot groups) at 100 yards.

This is a very accurate load and .1 of a grain less than the MAXIMUM load.


Strength & Honor...

Ron T.

Ron T, what bullet weight?

Wayne

I bought a 99 while a senior in highschool with my ranching money... was a hundred bucks used and had a redfield wide angle scope... in .308

I killed my first and also many deer with it... after getting into archery in my late twenties, it sat. Later, when my daughter was still young, she wanted a special Bday gift, it was out of our budget... I looked at that old gun, put in the paper for 175.00 and the phone wouldn't quit ringing, it sold to the first guy that ran over, no haggling... lol...

Of course, the older I got the more I regretted that impulse sale.

Last year, Enrique had an old 99 in 308 he needed to sell, to purchase a 7mm... well, he made me a good deal and I used that gun to take a cow elk last fall, had that same daughter accompany me on that hunt... It was like an old friend returned.

I put an old weaver 3X post and crosshair on it, I had laying around... would love to find a peep for it, maybe one of these days.





Kent

Lovely lady and a nice rifle! Where are these deals when I need one?

Each year my wife and I make a trip to Anticosti Island and each year I take two different 99's this year my rifles will be a 99K in .300 Savage, and a 99EG in .308 Win. Here is a pic of the K.



And here is the EG

Every deer(around 30+) I have taken since I was twelve has been with a 99, mostly an old rat 300 savage(love that gun)a 30-30 and recently a few with a 308. There were a few I shot in NY with a shotgun, but just a handful, the rest with the old lever action. I bought a fancy bolt action 7 mag a few years ago to hunt elk, got a shot at a running bull through the dark timber less than 80 yds and blew it. I Knew I would have punched a few holes in him with my savage, and when I got home I sold the gun and bought my 99C in 308. Haven't got a chance to take it out west with me yet, but next year is probably the year. This fall heading to NW Ontario to see if the old 99's work on the bigger bucks there, not too worried.

99C .308 3x9 scope 130grn TTSX and I'm good to go - for deer and antelopes

Brush Gun in 358 wearing a Weaver K4W scope in standard Weaver rings. First rifle I ever bought after I turned 18. Deer, black bear (when I go) and will go for elk if I ever go for elk.

Dale

I have (2) Savage 99s and (2) Savage 1899s that I use. They are my favorite guns to hunt with.

I have all 4 of the savage rounds.

.303 Sav


.300 Sav (no gun in pic, but this mulie had a date with it)


.250-3000


and finally a 22 hi-Power that as yet has only killed bunnies