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Rick,

Most all the CD's I've seen have had some pretty decent wood on them. Makes sense being he "D"elux version of the mod. "C".

Emhart and later R & D guns had a RD prefix to the ser. #, I presume yours is so marked?

If'n you treat her right, I wouldn't be affraid to take her to the woods for many more deer. Used guns have value, abused guns don't. You seem like a guy that knows the diffrence and would take good care of her. Think how happy the dog gets when its time to head for the field.....rifles get that same feeling when its time to head to the woods. It would be a shame to deprive her of that feeling by leaving her home in the rack <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

Ram, I do hate to keep it in the rack, but if you saw where I hunted and the beautiful fiddleback stock you would understand why I take the 110 .270 Win. out instead when I hunt the swamps. I do take it up to deer camp in Minnesota and hunt the logging trails with it (easy walking, no brush busting). Always gets the attention of the other guys in camp and I have heard "if you ever want to sell her let me know" quite a few times. I have taken quite a few deer with it and the .308 Win has become my favorite round. Light kick, great accuracy, really efficient, the perfect deer round. That's why I just picked up a Savage 10FP in .308 with the 20" barrel last month.

As for the serial no. It is DSW RD 6XX. I have to get a letter off to the Savage historian if I ever get the time. Like I said, it has a beautiful stock, factory d&t'ed, Savage butt pad, hand checkered Monte Carlo stock, Williams rear sight and hooded gold bead front sight (probably 95%+ condition). I have 5 99's and the CD is by far the most beautiful gun I own. I probably don't fit the description of the true collector, but I really admire the 99's because they were so far ahead of their time, so well designed, and so aesthetically appealing. It gets to be an addiction doesn't it? Rick

What part of the cheese state are you in? I did some poking around Baron and Rusk counties but found mostly farmland, rolling hills and some nice wooded ridges. Kinda interesting driving a state layed out in a grid. You always got directions two ways! A left and a right, or a right and two lefts <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />! I also found out when someone out there says, "I'm gonna buy me a 40" They are not talking about a handgun or malt liquor!

Gonna get back out there this summer for the Birthday party, but that will be a different part of the State, and wildlife of a different sort.

How's the CWD situation working out. My Buds out there said the kill was down, they figured the CDW was keeping people out of the woods. If memory serves there was a SE county they wanted total anialation of the herd. Did they succeed?

Ram, I live in the central part of the state in Wood county. I hunt down in Adams county on the paper company land. It's either thick pines or dense hardwoods. I also hunt on a swamp for gun deer season on a 40 (private land thank God). Lots of farmland around but it's getting pretty hard to hunt the farmland nowadays as the farmers lease it out if they don't hunt themselves.

As for the CWD, the deer kill was down about 10% and the license sales were down 10%. Go figure. I myself didn't see the numbers of deer I have seen in the past. I think it was more weather related than due to a lack of hunting pressure. We didn't have any snow cover and the weather was too warm. In a good year I'll see 30 deer a day in the swamp. This year I saw 8 deer opening day. Passed up a spike and a 4 pointer opening weekend and never saw another buck all week. Did get a doe and had some trouble with the 250 Savage 99 on a couple others (been dicussed extensively on this forum). Next year it will be the 10FP in .308 win. I've been out to the range getting used to it. Very accurat out to 400 yards (about the max range for my shooting ability).

I have heard that they are going in with sharpshooters in the endemic area to try to wipe out as many deer before the fawns are born this spring. There is alot of opposition to the DNR plans, especially the baiting and feeding ban. I personally am glad they banned baiting as I saw more bucks bow hunting this year than ever before. I imagine the ban will be overturned as there is alot of money lost for the feed supply companies and as we all know, it all boils down to money.

As for keeping people out of the woods, I tell them they better stop eating chicken, beef, eggs, and drinking the water. Rick

Rick,Ram,

Part of the reason the license sales and kill were down this year definitely may have been due to CWD. One of the guys I hunt with in Onieda County has a brother who lives in IL. He said that IL wasn't allowing WI venison in this year because of CWD so it cut down on the number of folks coming up north to hunt. Don't know how true it is but I also heard it from a WI State Trooper who has a shack next to ours. He works the southern part of the state and told us he had met some IL Troopers who told him the same thing. I didn't hear squat about it out here so I made d... sure mine came back to WA with me.

Skidrow, they figure the harvest was down 10% and hunter numbers were down 10%. I'm sure this was due to CWD and the numbers correlate quite closely. I think the article they ran in the Milwaukee Journal linking CWD with game feeds was the culprit. They ran a follow up story the day before deer season started that stated there was no link between CWD and the diseases the 3 men had died from. I think it was too little to late. Talk about terrible, irresponsible journalism. As for the FIB's not hunting up here in Wis, that just goes to prove that there is an upside to everything. Rick

Got to agree that I didn't miss the Flatlanders at all. Nothing personal, just that as a group they're more of a drinking, partying weekend away from the old lady crowd than hunters. Also have to agree that the media has way over blown the CWD issue. No verified reports of anyone dying of it or even contracting it yet they've made it out to be the worst health hazard to come along since asbestos and/or tobacco. Ya just got to consider the "Duh" factor. As far as the kill being down, you ought to hunt in WA. More deer are harvested in WI each year than there are in the entire state of WA. I saw more deer opening day in WI than I have seen in 18 years of hunting out here. I guess growing up in WI spoiled me.

I know what you mean. I hunt in northern Minn. and I had my best year for seeing deer up there, 8 in one day. I had my worst year for seeing deer here in Wis., only 8 in one day. I passed up 2 smaller bucks during gun season and I passed up probably about 15 small bucks during bow season here in Wis. Then when my wall hanger walked 15 yards broadside to me and stopped at my scent wick, I drew my bow and when I brought the release up to my face, my face mask moved and caused my glasses to fog. I couldn't see my pin at all. Of course the buck looked right at me when I drew the bow so I couldn't let down and redraw. Needless to say, he got away. Can't wait til next year. Rick

I have a .308 Mod 99 F and a 250 Savage M-99 EG....I used them for years hunting mule deer and elk horseback, still do as a matter of fact..Never had a complaint with either one of them...My dad shot about 30 elk with the 250 and 95% were one shot kills, the other 5% required a finishing shot...

To this day the most exciting hunting I have ever done is horseback in the mountains of the Big Bend of Texas, when you jump a big buck from under a rimrock and step off with your rifle and shoot him off hand as he is parting the country...and the 99's were built with that in mind....