I was walking through a gun show in Tacoma about 30 yrs ago and a fellow was trying to trade a 99 in 308 with a 16 1/4" barrel and he had no takers. It actually looked pretty good so I offered him a $100 and he took it. I shortened the stock to youth length for me(I'm short) and it was a deer killing machine. I mostly still hunt the forests of NW WI and I had a three deer morning with it the first day out, one buck and two does before noon. It doted on 180gr RN's. My little nephew was hunting with a H&R single shot 30-30 that was too long in the stock for him. Seeing as my tags were full I let him use the 99 and told him he could borrow it until he got his first deer with it, then it was his, thirty years later he's still killing deer with it. He took a job away from home so his sister refinished the 99 and she took it out this past season.
