What does a bunch of old Savage loonys look like ?

Here is my ugly mug ;




Mike

Sunglasses required as I am under the witness protection program. GW

Well, here is my ugly mug:

Mike...

Mike

You're chokin' that deer!

An old shipmate from my days with the USN, Randy Vaughn on the right, me on the left standing in my kitchen. Served in the boiler rooms on a DD in SE Asia early 70's.

This is the Idaho boy. [img:center][/img]

You asked for it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Out in West Texas

I just had to do it

That ain't right!

Tearing apart innocent animals with one of the boys and his progeny.

Heres one of my ugly mug!!!Don

Boy! has anyone told you. you look a lot like Charles Bronson?


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That is not Charles Bronson...That is Albert Johnson...AKA... the Mad Trapper.

Charles Bronson playing Albert Johnson in the movie . Don

Really?

I actually thought Albert Johnson was playing himself.

smartass!!

6mm-250 what a great thread! Mad dog love your 1895 and very surprised the skeeters did not carry you away. Longbeardking still longing for a moose hunt with you maybe this year.

Me last Oct.

Nov 2008 deer.

Funny,,,,,,,,,,,,my wife and I were just talking about that today. It's been a long time since were chosen to hunt. Just keep applyong. Sooner or later it HAS to happen.

Me and Mae near home

Me and my two boys (I'm the young fellow in the middle )



This is in our new home in Alberta (Jasper, 50 miles from Hinton). We too are also in the witness protection program

Blair

Damn ! , except for me & Charlie Bronson all the rest of you guys look really , really old.

Mike

We apparently are all baby boomers with more disposable income than our parents (and a lot less brains too) We know the value of a buck, we just don't care!

Blair,


Great looking area. now you got to be in the middle.


Fred

Great thread, although it makes it quite apparent that only our rifles are good looking.



Rod

Here I am doing what I love best (at least in public!)

Blitz

Well, hunting is supposed to be fun, and I had a blast hunting elk with my son Matt. This was just after a close encounter (35 yards and bad angle) with a bull. No shot taken.

Here I am doing what I do best.



.22Hp about to spit fire and venom!

one of these days ill learn to post pic ,then ill break camera and computer.
your all so good looking i don't know if i can compeat.
MADDOG your to young to have all that knowledge and so many armaments .show us the real pic.

A fellow needs to be able to fish as well as hunt.

Elwood

Me at home in the ground hog capital of the world and the little gun that started to lead my heart astray, a 1963 vintage Rem. 700 .243.

Better pic, and with a 99!

M99s, beards, flannel....you guys are alright (grin).

Most of us are creeping up to Geritol,and Lawrence Welk music!!! Don

Armed with a Jack Russel Terrier

A caught off guard pic

Maybe , http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vI6c...ex=3&playnext=2&playnext_from=PL



Mike

2007 OGCA show at Wilmington, Ohio.

Here is a frontal shot, I am the one on the right!

9/10 of us would have to shave!!!!! i thought you just wrung that stuff thru a loaf of bread before using!

Shave? I haven't shaved since 1970! I thought having a beard was a requirement for hanging out here! Some of you guys could hide a Savage pistol in yours!

Shave?

[bleep]! I ain't cut my hair in over a year either. That's why I'm still posting old pics.

I wanna look like Rakasan when I grow up!

Shave ? ,I can't stand a blade on my face


Mike

Well, before we have to shave... here I am, with my wife Sandy. Christmas day (last week!...never mind the date...stupid camera..), .358 freezer filler from a fellow Camp Fire Friend.



Thanks ALL for a great year!
Jeff

This is me on the left, Boltman on the right and 1899Sav in the background in the middle, the partially visible individual in the back I believe is "ArcheryKing" (someone correct me if I am wrong).. at one of the 2009 SavageFests

I had a beard for 18 years and would still have one if some a-holes had not crashed air planes, in to the towers! but my job, nowI cant have a beard, in case I have to don a gas mask, to save the State!
John

caught at my best.



Back row with the pre mil F

Cold day on stand. Mike

Here's one of me and my dad at elk camp. I would be the youngster on the left. Both rifles in 300Sav, one an EG and the other a G model.

nash

I think we ought to make a sticky out of this thread, so we can check it when we are dealing with someone on the board.

Not a bad Idea Chip, I met alot of the guys on here at the 1&2 fest, but not alot of these fellows! neat to put a nick name to a face! John

If we're doing stickies, I would rather use this one.My biggest Savage 99 deer!

Good Lord thats a freak!

I posted this about a month back, but you asked for it, so here I am again!!!

2009 Muledeer Buck taken in North Dakota Badlands



And of course, the ever popular Wife in the ND Badlands

Steve did you wrestle that one down and hog tie him?

That deer is still alive... Just posing for the picture with Steve...!!!


Mike....

Steve could put some wheels on that deer and ride it around!

Kenny
Same Deer,,no wheels.

Me and my 300 99R with an 08' cull license Lope. What my MT buddy calls a "one hander" but they are fork tender.

Looks like a 7mm-08 to me!

No guns in this picture, but 99's were responsible for this venision

Here I am on a bear hunt last year. In the group pic I am on the left. Had a blast in Maine! Lots of hunting, fishing and interesting people. Not familiar with 99's at this point. One may accompany me on our next trip. Bear is 125#s. I shot the first one I saw. My motto on this trip was "If it's black it's going back". Others on this trip passed on smaller bears waiting for the big one. Sadly, they are still waiting.

My family and I.

Brian

Trying the pics again. Not sure what happened to the ones in my last post. Likely a tech glitch that was my fault.

In the back of a pickup heading to the Red Dog Saloon in Naknek.All deserving after a long season in Bristol Bay.

Continuing my quest for obscure rifles chambered in 300 Savage.

Both of these are casualties of my Model 99..300 Savage




Joe

Found two more Savages.....

After that i just climbed up the "HANDSOME" ladder one rung!!!! Don

Sorry but the only pics of me have deer in them

Here is my ugly mug with the 99 in 22-250. My most prized 99 next to Dad's old 250-3000 takedown.



Hey Longbeard and Loggah, they grow 'em mean in NH don't they?

Rich, Nice picture at least people will know who you are,if i shave no one would recognize me. Don

Geez... I can really see the resemblance Don...!!!


Mike...

Last years archery hunt in Colorodo GMU 63. I'm the experienced guy on right.

Mike,The only resemblance between me and Rich is our size. Don

You know, every now and then I see a thread on one of the Forums where members get a bit mean and nasty with each other, and then I stumble across one like this. Restores the faith. Quite a distinguished group of gentlemen with some beautiful rifles. Glad to meet you.

Frank

yea sometimes ya gotta take a little bit of bad with thegoooood guys.

welcome to the forum
Norm

Don Anderson aka Weagle here:

What kind of freaking deer is that??!!!!?????!!??!?!?!!?!?

That would be........a dead one.

...a giagantic, freakish recordbook type of dead one.

EVEN IN ALASKA - STEN GETS LUCKY!!!

You better tell us who they are BEFORE I open my mouth and insert my foot!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I may be old,,,,but,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,NERERMIND!!!!!!!!!!!!!

This last Dec with a rifle that I got from Mule Deer.




And a 99 pic in 250

One from RAS

GREAT movie, loads of wicked rifles in it! "Death Hunt"

Thought I would post up.

Where on the range was the pic taken?

Right outside of Gilbert, at the OHV park they have up there.

This be me

Here I am with my best cowhand "Jack".

Sure as eggs is eggs, that is definitely getting lucky! Damn! Some guys have all the luck!

Southeast Texas Pig


Before I started on 99's:

Here I am with a Black Buck and my other rifle passion a Ruger LWT in .257 roberts .

Me and Super-G (Grady) my then a bit younger Australian Shepherd.

I'm on the right.

Hello everyone! I am new to the group and thought I would throw in a pic and bid you greetings from Mississippi. My son and I hunt with 99s in .300 Savage. After the season is over I plan on freshening both of them up. This looked like a good group to get some info and share some stories.

Welcome to the forum, and nice pic! Gotta love dead hogs..

If "freshening up" means refinishing, I wouldn't touch that one you're showing. May not be collector quality, but it's a good looking rifle.

Oh No! not re-finishing. They both have a nice patina. Some touch up on the stocks and a good disassembly and cleaning.

You look too young to fit in with this crowd............grin

Welcome

Or too intelligent?? In all reality a great bunch of guys here and the smartest Savage people around. BTW, nice rifles and welcome.

No 99 because it was on my lap!

Well, you asked for it. Here I am. A face only a mother could love.
I know it's not a 99 but it is a Savage.



Lee

2010 Hunting trip for Fallow

Is Bronson standing in front of ya?

I had Better Add My Mug

Fantastic picture! My Gawd what beautiful country!!

+1 on that!

Yep my little piece of Paradise

Here goes, pictures of my son & I!

Thats a BIG grouse! Nice shootin,kid.

Here's a picture of me on the farm in WV enjoying one of my favorite pastimes, Chainsaw milling, Joe.


I kinda like this one too, we were Tuna fishing off Ocean City MD when this little Finch landed on my head. I guess he got blown off shore. It does prove that my head is good for something besides a hat rack, Joe.

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Me and my little Gabbie trick or treating last Halloween.

Let's try that again....

Not a Savage, but it is me.


Above is a Savage, but sadly, I'm missing in the pic.

I wanna go hunting with Redhawk75!!!!!

Greggintenn,How do you like that scope set up?I have the same scope and rings and have been hesitant to buy the base for my 99e.Does it hold zero?

I love it. Although that rifle wasn't originally drilled and tapped, I think the scope just looks right on it. It is a tack driver, and although I've owned, shot, and hunted with it for several years now, I've not yet had to touch the adjustments. I would think that mount would be hard to locate unless it came with a scope.

Me, circa late fall 1972:



My mother says I stopped smiling after I went to Parris Island. Not true. I smiled once in 1989.

Noah

Guessing that you did one of the below in 1989?

1) Got married?
2) Got divorced?
3) Bought a boat?
4) Sold a boat?

The youngest youngun' was born.

Noah

Greg...what scope is that in the picture?

It is a Bausch and Lomb BalVar. I believe it is someting like 1-3x? Someone here will know for certain.

Looks like a BalVar 4.That would make it variable 2 1/2 to 4x. Great scope.Had one with Post reticle on a Mod 70 that I should have kept. Have a BalVar 8 1 1/2 to 8X on a 99 250-3000.The mounts used with it are Leupold adjusto mounts.Very clean set up.

Me and my pet chicken Marvin.

That's a Great Photo.

Yeah he's one bad asses looking kid.... very worldly for his age I'd say.

Had some friends fishing about 30 miles out off of Oak Island NC last year and a finch landed on one of them. You know there tired when they do that.

wish I could still train horses

Norm
I was thinking the same thing about maddog when I seen his picture. Cheers NC

kenster99
How did you get a way with shooting a little elk, that is what I want to know. Cheers NC

Here I is. I'm the one holding the pistol.........

An old shipmate from my days with the USN, Randy Vaughn on the right, me on the left standing in my kitchen. Served in the boiler rooms on a DD in SE Asia early 70's.

Somehow I had missed this thread before.

I was shocked to see Savage collectors that didn't look like Loggah and Longbeard king.

you mean like "HANDSOME" !!!!! Don

Exactly.

Here is my mug shot while on a hunt last year.

Use your imagination in this picture and you can see me with my Presidential Grade in 32-40. I'm kneeling down behind the 447 class bull. I know, it's hard to see me behind all those extra points and the two guides (bent over the elk) from "Horny Super Models Guide Service"

New here, hope this pic doesn't put you off your feed for a week. Rodfac aka Dave Oberg

100 % agreed. man id love to hear some of the stories that go along with those old guns and flannel jackets

I tried to find a pic with me and the old Blue E but couldn't so this will have to do.

Here's a fresh pic from a couple weeks ago. I'm in between 99s but my wife has a 99 in 284 and a Rem 722 in 300 Savage. Me with my 30 Gibbs!

trying to post pics for first time.

10pt from 2011 season, 308 tomato stake

Looks like you made it Billy. Congratulations on a fine deer. Did you scare it to death????

Yessir, scared him so bad he was bleeding outta both lungs. Shot him 1/13/11, I guess technically it was the 2010 season. No deer for me this past season, but did score on a dear. 79 pigs dead since November 3 tho

Me and my Welfare buck, and yes, dammit, thats a feeder.

Nice buck Les!
I attached a picture of one of my last ones. Can't remember how to get the picture to show up!

Nice buck, Arkie!

Bear camp last week. This is me after a day of driving and hiking dusty logging roads.

This was taken before I had a 99 so it's pre-99. I guess that fits as it was actually 1998.

What a beautiful animal!! (yes I mean the deer)

Those big Northern Whitetail are just awesome!

Thanks. Here's a few more I've been lucky enough to tag if you like looking at them.

here's me doing what I like best

This thread is almost 3 years old. Here is a update photo with a deer I got today. The gun is a old Stevens twice barrel shootgun.




Mike

My current deer and my current ugly a$$ mug.
Rifle is a Savage LWH in 7mm-08 using 140 grn corelokts.

Thought I'd post seeing EVERYONE else has:
1952 EG, .300 Sav,Weaver k-3w(from Lightfoot), Williams Quick convertible mount and rings.... This rifle just feels right!

3stars

http://i1350.photobucket.com/albums...6-4a3a-9a02-99eb9f9d2aea_zps460c9adb.jpg

don't know if this works or not.fing technoligy!

Deerstalker

wife hates that hat! my favorite of course! wife and hat.lol

I think its a great hat! But then again, I have one similar.

i would buy several more if i could find them with the same disreputable look and feel! hat that is/not wife.lol one of them is enough

My other addiction:



and some cool stuff:

"Ride to live, live to ride."

This is me this past Sept in Africa

Sweet! For us ignorant North American types, what's the critter?

And, it's not a 99.

Here�s my mug.



At a LOCAL meeting

My luck huntin' hat. wyo1895

In the woods. Rick
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This is me last summer on the way to the range...

99 and a deer



Mug shot

That top photo is a beauty! What a deer!

I'll figger this picture thing out yet... Rick

He's telling the truth. I loaned him the car.

Yup. And I'm the King of England.

Hope this doesn't break your computer monitor. 99F 300 Savage

Lookin' good! A man after my own heart- red wool + Savage. (Just don't let Steelhead see you with those white gloves!)

Those are my glove liners. Gloves were in the hunting shack. Don't want some bubba thinkin' the white was the back end of a deer and take a pot shot at me.

Need the old cartridge belt to complete the outfit. Looking good- white gloves match the whiskers. Tom

You've just got to love the "old school" red and black plaid wool. So sad it's no longer legal where I hunt.

They even tell you what you can wear now? Gotta love the govt. Always looking out for us.

FB2
Isn't it amazing how many of us survived childhood in the 50s without the government watching out for us? Riding in cars without seat belts, riding in back end of a pick up, going to the old swimming hole without life jackets, telling us what to eat, what to drink, and what shots we needed, how to raise a baby.
I guess now we have to be advised if we wear boxers or "tightie whities."

Yup. In Wisconsin if it ain't about 50% blaze orange you're wrong.

We need 250 square inches of orange, or at least a hat. Ironic, the only hunting accident involving someone I knew was a guy dressed in orange head-to-toe. Then there was the dead guy found by a buddy who was dressed in an orange hunting suit too, but that turned out to be a murder.

Kromer's doesn't even make a blaze orange cap.

state requirements;
http://www.ihea.com/hunting-and-shooting/requirements/hunter-orange-requirements

So this wouldn't cut it. I hunt several different areas and never had a problem. I would SERIOUSLY find another place to hunt.

Have to wear orange on chest, back and head here in Nebraska.

I guess we're just plain spoiled here in New Hampshire. Hell, we could hunt naked if we so choose.

Jeez, now I'll have nightmares tonight.

Yep, that old fart is me, with my buddy's truck in the background.

Very nice buck.

Thanks a lot! He tasted good too.

Here's another couple pics of that buck:

Here's an orange Stormy Kromer for you.
http://www.stormykromer.com/discontinued/flexible-fit-original-cap

Just what is that rifle laying on that buck? Looks military but I can't identify it.

That's a 1942 Swiss K31, 7.5x55mm caliber. It's a very accurate rifle.
Here's a little more about these rifles:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K31

The 7.5x55 Swiss is similar to the .300 Savage in performance.

Scouting for a moose camp. The 99 was along in case an early black bear showed himself. [img:center][/img]

I like those rifles, but I get a kick out of the beer keg looking bolt knob.

Ahhh.....Mickey Mouse boots, ugly but I'd never go ice fishing without them, best darn boots on the planet.

We call them bunny boots up here. But as I understand it, the Mickey Mouse boots were different in that they didn't have the air valves on them, just multiple layers of felt. But I've heard it different too. And yeah, they are the only boots I know of that you can fill with water at below zero, dump them out, and your feet will still be warm.

Pardon me if I missed it, but what cartridge is that 99 loaded for bear?

If you're talking to me, I'm just learning the 99, but for my Ruger .308 I load 168 grain Seirra HPBTs in front of 43 grains of IMR 4064. That is what I was carrying in the 99 today. I had good luck with the 99 firing that load on the range at 100yds the other day.
It doesn't take much to break down a black bear up here. We have giant brown bear, but the blacks are usually small.
It's warmer up here this year than many places in the L48. My boy and I were walking around in 39 degree weather, and that should make the blackies wake up.

Yes, I was asking you about the cartridge.

Thanks

Given that I was issued "Mickey Mouse" boots courtesy of my Uncle Sam they did have air valves and came in both black and white. The air valves were there because depending on the temp the warmth of your feet could cause them to over inflate thus the need to bleed off some of the air from time to time. To us "Bunny Boots" are just big old kinda sorta white boots with a felt liner. But then, I'm down here.

165 grain broadhead, heart shot, 8 yds, 510 lbs., my place in Bayfield Co., WI, delicious!

Nice picture Rick. Congratulations! Is he going to be part of the menu for SavageFest 2014 ?

Yes! More in the freezer.
I slow cooked a loin last week. It's absolutely wonderful. I would describe it similar to a beef roast in looks, color, texture and flavor is close to beef also but a little more sweet.

The tentative plan is for the Saturday evening meal to include a game feed among other fix'ins on site. Any and all are welcome to contribute, deer, turkey, bison, gator or whatever you'd like if it is possible for you. PM me if interested and any special needs.

Going all-out Savage today in anticipation of Savage Fest and even swiped a new avatar. Here's my mug. I usually don't wear the helmet around town.



One neat thing about logging is the deer will sometimes get in real close...


Little healthier looking one that didn't get so close today.

Since I cant hunt my Savage rifles legally in Illinois (no centerfire allowed on deer) we have to use other means to put them down.

dave

DAVE
WHAT Ya Mean, I've been doing it all wrong for years in Ill With Center Fire?


Nice S.Ill Buck There,.Very Uniform!
Steve

Nice! Very nice!

Hope I'm doing this right (file manager to add picture?)

I little older and 90 pounds lighter than the old pick...

A kinda recent pic.

With my 2010 Maine Moose - 10 1/2 year old Bull

I just saw your post on the big game forum. Congratulations. 'Bout all I can say. Between my wife, son, and I, we have accounted for 7. Both bulls and cows. To me moose hunting is the greatest. Great job, twinray.

Hey thanks. It's a wonder that between both of us, there are any Moose left.😄

I started on page one checkin out all the guys and gals. Had to laugh at this one. Yep, Gary ain't foolin ya. I know cause that's the one my wife made me get rid of cause she doesn't like RED cars. When I got my new Black Testarossa, I gave the little Red one to Gary. The Black one has about 8500 miles on it, so it's about time to get rid of it. Anybody want it? Joe.

Nah, I don't like black ones.

Beards, flannel, deer and 99's.
It don't get no better......

.308 '99 EG

I'm thinking you must be a loony to be kookoo for Cocoa Puffs over a Savage.

Aint shot nuthin' w the 99 yet, so posting last yr's pic (Contender carbine kill).

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That's about a pretty deer right there.

Thanks. The pic actually doesn't do him justice.
Brought a few home over the yrs, the kids and ol lady not really impressed.

So I cut the head off to maybe go euro mount.

My gal comes out and sees my bud and I unloading gear and goes "you dumbass!"

I was like????

This thing was only 131" gross, and I got a 166" net on the wall already.

She was stomping mad and said that it was the prettiest deer I ever brought home, or that she'd seen up close and I should had it mounted by a top notch taxi.

Oh well.

Never seen her so bent about a friggin' deer.

Won't eat or cook the stuff for anybody (I do it, the kids love it)............but all freaked out over not getting a deer mounted. Strange.

Neighbor says two decent ones been hitting our spot.
Proly kill a relative of this one, maybe 150".

Since IN does their records thing at 140 min.........I figure no gun kills mounted unless they top that. Of course any recurve bow kill over 125" net is getting mounted........but I doubt that will ever happen. My days of recurve are not much longer.

That appears to be a handy rig you have there. I'd smile if I had that to hold.

He is smiling! You don't want to see him when he's not.

Fall 2015, taken with 300 Sav., 150 grn.

2013 with a beard...but who cares about that. Getting this deer with the 99EG is what made the hunt really special. BTW, the deer isn't as big as the picture makes it look.

Looks great to me! Much bigger than our 78 pound spike WV hill deer, Joe.

Now that's what a hunter looked like when I was coming up in the 60's and 70's! I still have my buffalo plaid Woolrich Pennsylvania Tuxedo and hat. Somehow it shrunk or I'd still be hunting in it.

My first post here. Takedown 99, .250-3000, took my first buck with it almost 60 years ago.

Welcome neighbor, I'm in Rogue River.

Just bought my first Model 99 .250-3000. It was made in 1949 (per David Royal's excellent book) or 1950 according to the online serial number lookup. The serial number is 529636. The lever boss code is 23 with what was likely an A, it's just too faint to tell.



I'm hoping someone can help me identify the letter designation for this gun.

Greg

Greg, that's a darned pretty gun.. it almost surely started out life as a 99EG, but the stock got a heck of an aftermarket upgrade somewhere along the line.

If the front of the receiver has SAVAGE MODEL 99 stamped to the side so that you can see it beside the scope bases, it started life as a model 99R. The 99R's were drilled for scope bases at that time, the 99EG's weren't (well... 99.9% of them weren't, we see an occasional early oddball EG that is drilled, but very uncommon).

Welcome to the campfire!

Thank you! I was afraid someone was going to tell me that the wood was not original.

I shot this buck November 13, 2018 on my place in Milam County in central Texas with my 1966 Savage 99E in .308. He was big old boy with a non-typical rack counting 16 or 17 points.





Now he hangs out in our kitchen:

Downside is that it's not original. Upside is that it's 10x as pretty as original wood would be. If it was a rare model and cartridge, I'd be bummed that a real collectible had been altered and the value might have dropped.. but 99EG's and 99R's are very common and I personally don't think that stock hurts the value at all, probably the reverse.

Texgunner, heck of a cool rack on that guy!

Thank you very much! It looks like a great year for bucks out there this season, maybe he'll get a companion on that wall.