I have been in the gun business in one form or another for 45 years. I believe that people have discovered how good Savage 99s are. For years they took a back seat to Winchesters to the buying public.Now more and more shooters have discovered 99s. I have sold 6 in the last 4 weeks. Only one went to a man who was a "99 guy". All of the others were buying their first 99. The prices are beginning to pull lots of guns out into the market. There were at least 30 99s at the Louisville show last weekend.