I think that Savage needs to find a different market niche, since all of the possible bolt action options seem to be full of better options. Maybe they could sell the manufacturing rights to the 99 to Ruger and Ruger could spin off a division that only did lever actions, exposed hammer Marlins and hammerless Savages.
Heck, Marlin's X guns were Savage 110 clones, so there is proof that Savage could have improved the aesthetics of the 110s if they had wanted to.
I had a Stevens 350 12 gauge pump gun for awhile, but somebody wanted it more, so it went away. I replaced it with an old, all steel, Savage 30 tthat was twice the gun for half the price.
