Yep, I've never had a 99 where I could seat close to the lands and have it load in the magazine.
Guns still shoot well, though.
antiacus, the reason I say that all 99's aren't the same is because 99's were hand made and hand fitted. So all 99's should accept anything that was loaded to SAAMI specs since they were all tested and QA'd for that. But if you find that a max length in one rifle is 2.72", you may very well find that another 99 has a max length of 2.68".
And, yeah, a 250gr bullet out of a 300 Savage doesn't sound real smart. But if you're hunting forests and max shot is 40 or 50 yards it'd be a heck of a smack down round.
