Hi all, after seeing Fishdog52's moose post, I realized we need a 2018 Savage Kill Page. So I will kick it off, here are a couple pics of Saturday's Wyo Speed Goat hunt, with my grandpa's 1949 vintage 99 EG in 300 Savage. About 125 yds, 1 shot kill using a Redfield 70LH peep and a Lyman gold bead front. Looking forward to seeing more 2018 harvest pics! Many thanks to deerstalker for helping me post the images.
Now we have our page. Please make it a sticky up top.
"...aspire to live quietly, and to mind your own affairs, and to work with your hands, as we instructed you, so that you may walk properly before outsiders and be dependent on no one." - Paul to the church in Thessalonica.
We ought to organize a Savage Forum antelope hunt sometime. 99's only (and M1920's and Super Sporters, I guess), iron sights only like Northwesthunter did. (Roy can use a scope, because, well, he's old).
Can we get a group discount for, say, ten guys? ("On the count of three we all shoot.")
"You can lead a man to logic, but you cannot make him think." Joe Harz "Always certain, often right." Keith McCafferty
Antelope season lasts to Halloween. If there are any area 87 licences left you guys can come here. Otherwise apply for them for the 2019 season. I can get three elk in the back of my Dodge 2500 so probably about 6 or 8 goats. But you can't take it back to Maryland. David
wyo1895 With Savage never say never. For a copy of my book on engraved Savage lever actions rifles send a check for $80 to; David Royal, p.o. box 1271, Pinedale, Wy., 82941. I will sign and inscribe the book for you. [email protected]
Opened this thread expecting to see several of this years Savage kills. All there is the OP's antelope hunt pic, all the rest is hot air from the usual windbags. Topic drift as usual, oh well.
You know what gunwhizz, go away and come back when there's more hunting activity. Those of us back East won't be getting into the deer woods for another month or two, so be patient. I'm sure there will be lots of dead stuff for your viewing enjoyment in due time. Meanwhile, so what if the thread goes astray for a bit. It's all in good fun- something you so seldom seem capable of!
And lighten up while you're at it. You can be a (humorless) windbag yourself, dontcha know!!!
"You can lead a man to logic, but you cannot make him think." Joe Harz "Always certain, often right." Keith McCafferty
Opened this thread expecting to see several of this years Savage kills. All there is the OP's antelope hunt pic, all the rest is hot air from the usual windbags. Topic drift as usual, oh well.
Where's your kill? I must have missed it.
Really have enjoyed your contribution to the thread tho, carry on.
_______________________________________________________ An 8 dollar driveway boy living in a T-111 shack
We ought to organize a Savage Forum antelope hunt sometime. 99's only (and M1920's and Super Sporters, I guess), iron sights only like Northwesthunter did. (Roy can use a scope, because, well, he's old).
Can we get a group discount for, say, ten guys? ("On the count of three we all shoot.")
I'll bring the 38-55 and if we play our cards right, we'll line em up and fill multiple tags with every shot!
_______________________________________________________ An 8 dollar driveway boy living in a T-111 shack
Good job, Jim! Rooting for ya, even if I'm stuck at my desk.
“The Savage 99 Pocket Reference”. All models and variations of 1895’s, 1899’s and 99’s covered. Also dates, checkering, engraving.. Find at www.savagelevers.com
“The Savage 99 Pocket Reference”. All models and variations of 1895’s, 1899’s and 99’s covered. Also dates, checkering, engraving.. Find at www.savagelevers.com
Thanks guys! I usually use a .308 or 7x57 for moose but I got this savage earlier this fall for 100$ and just had an urge to fill the freezer with it. (we don't have a freezer, we hang till winter and then thaw and butcher. This guy was frozen solid about 4 days after I got it) This is an average/small moose for around here; body and antlers. Exceptional eating! Called it in to the cabin; showed up late in the evening it was dark. So I called in the morning he came in again. I was in my pajamas I know this is controversial but I have been taken the past few years by the neck shot. If I am close, like under 100 yds, and the situation is good, like lots of opportunity for a follow up shot, (and you're a good shot and know your anatomy) the neck shot at the base of the skull is quite spectacular. I won't recommend it but this is how this guy went down.
wyo1895 With Savage never say never. For a copy of my book on engraved Savage lever actions rifles send a check for $80 to; David Royal, p.o. box 1271, Pinedale, Wy., 82941. I will sign and inscribe the book for you. [email protected]
I've shot many bucks over the years. Late this afternoon I accomplished my goal of taking a buck with bullets which I cast myself. I started casting this summer. Took this 6-pointer at 100 yards with my 1920 .303 Savage. I took a quick cellphone pick where he dropped after going about 30 yards. My brother-in-law took the pic with me in it after we got him out and back to the house. Headed to the shack to celebrate.
“The Savage 99 Pocket Reference”. All models and variations of 1895’s, 1899’s and 99’s covered. Also dates, checkering, engraving.. Find at www.savagelevers.com
Where leaving Friday for WV opener next Monday. One of my neighbors farms is going up for sale, so I guess we will hike up to the top of the mountain and take a look. I'd love to buy it, but I don't have the funds for 160 acres. Good luck to every one.
Took a little walk this evening. Old faithful went along. 1957 99f in 300 topped with that Leupold M8 6x and of course 180 grain silvertip ammo. This gun loves it but deer don't. 60 yard shot, 70 yard track job and I had him.
____________________________________________________________ Dying gets closer every day
wyo1895 With Savage never say never. For a copy of my book on engraved Savage lever actions rifles send a check for $80 to; David Royal, p.o. box 1271, Pinedale, Wy., 82941. I will sign and inscribe the book for you. [email protected]
Great pictures everyone, very encouraging! Thanks!
What calibre is that 99F that is so distasteful to those swine, Mohawk?
(...can't believe you shot that cute spotted one...)
.300 which is a round I am quickly becoming very fond of. I purchased a 99R from Fireball a couple of years back and gifted it to my father. He immediately went on a killing spree with it shooting several whitetails and hogs and the performance is great with very little recoil. I had been looking for a decent hunter grade F for a while and finally found one here from TomT. I'm really liking it. Hope to post more pictures on this thread before the deer season ends.
That spotted boar was a pretty handsome swine as far as Feral hogs go. If you know how destructive they are and the fact they are a non-native species you understand why we kill every one we can. We cant even begin to put a dent in the population. I truly love hunting them but hate what they do to the native wildlife and the landowners who's property they tear up.
Great pictures everyone, very encouraging! Thanks!
What calibre is that 99F that is so distasteful to those swine, Mohawk?
(...can't believe you shot that cute spotted one...)
.300 which is a round I am quickly becoming very fond of. I purchased a 99R from Fireball a couple of years back and gifted it to my father. He immediately went on a killing spree with it shooting several whitetails and hogs and the performance is great with very little recoil. I had been looking for a decent hunter grade F for a while and finally found one here from TomT. I'm really liking it. Hope to post more pictures on this thread before the deer season ends.
That spotted boar was a pretty handsome swine as far as Feral hogs go. If you know how destructive they are and the fact they are a non-native species you understand why we kill every one we can. We cant even begin to put a dent in the population. I truly love hunting them but hate what they do to the native wildlife and the landowners who's property they tear up.
I really regretted selling that 99. BUT, I am very glad it was put to good use. It was a beauty.
_______________________________________________________ An 8 dollar driveway boy living in a T-111 shack
Great pictures everyone, very encouraging! Thanks!
What calibre is that 99F that is so distasteful to those swine, Mohawk?
(...can't believe you shot that cute spotted one...)
.300 which is a round I am quickly becoming very fond of. I purchased a 99R from Fireball a couple of years back and gifted it to my father. He immediately went on a killing spree with it shooting several whitetails and hogs and the performance is great with very little recoil. I had been looking for a decent hunter grade F for a while and finally found one here from TomT. I'm really liking it. Hope to post more pictures on this thread before the deer season ends.
That spotted boar was a pretty handsome swine as far as Feral hogs go. If you know how destructive they are and the fact they are a non-native species you understand why we kill every one we can. We cant even begin to put a dent in the population. I truly love hunting them but hate what they do to the native wildlife and the landowners who's property they tear up.
I really regretted selling that 99. BUT, I am very glad it was put to good use. It was a beauty.
Yes sir it is and it is crazy accurate as well! With that tang safety it is made for a southpaw like my dad. He loves it. He has hunted it hard but he babies it and it looks just like it did when you shipped it with the exception of the old Weaver 4X that he mounted on it.
Decided yesterday to start thinning out the does at the farm. Took a large doe with a 1935 99 RS 300 mounted with a 1938 Zeiss scope this am. Fifty yard shot with 1950's Winchester silver tip ammo. Donated it to a individual that needed the meat for the winter. Will take others, all with different Savage 99's. Mostly with pre 1940's rifles. Sorry no pictures, hard to brag about tender eating does. GW
If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared. MACHIAVELLI
I haven't had a chance to check this post since I started it - all I have to say is AWESOME so far. Yukon moose with a 303, verifying all the old 303 ads - I love it. What was the load for that kill shot? I have head shot several cow elk at close range in the timber, took a cow buffalo with a 500 gr 45-70 blackpowder load out of an 1888 trapdoor right behind the ear, and dropped a nice 6x6 bull by spining him as he fed directly to me with his head down, so I know what you mean about the solid neck shot - instantaneous. I am also envious of those who get to shoot lots of pigs and whitetails every year - seems like a place where the 99 would shine. Keep 'em coming! I head out Friday for one more run at big bull elk for a 4 day hunt, we'll see if there is anything to report.
Heading for WV now. Last year I got a doe with the 250 R and a spike with the 300 R. This year I'm taking the 22 HP with the Malcolm scope and the 1899 B in 303. If I get a deer with each does that count toward the slam?
Yes sir I clean and quarter all I shoot. They are very edible. Just like pork you get at the grocery store except much leaner. At my house we call it Organic Free Range Pork. It is funny, the same people that would turn their nose up if I told them it was feral hog rave about how great it is. I just keep my mouth shut and keep cooking.
This upstate NY 8-pt's ticket was punched by my B-I-L Joe and his 99 x 7mm-08 on Sunday evening, at 150+ yards across a ravine, he waited more than an hour for this buck to stand up and stretch his legs. It's was a smart old-timer, maybe 6+ years, that's been watching us run around the woods after him for a long time. (crumby picture, but great deer and and rifle combo, worth sharing).
It's special for me because the rifle was a gift for a guy who "never had much use for 99s",... until one showed up in his favorite caliber!
Last edited by JeffG; 11/20/18.
"...One Nation under God, indivisible, with Liberty and Justice for All"
Savage 99C in 284 Win. Leupold 3-9 Scope. 140 gr BT. Bang flop at 100 yards. 10 point and first buck.
"...aspire to live quietly, and to mind your own affairs, and to work with your hands, as we instructed you, so that you may walk properly before outsiders and be dependent on no one." - Paul to the church in Thessalonica.
Your (RAS) scope and Lightfoot mount on 30-30 1899 barrel band nailed doe last Saturday and on Sunday used 99R in 250-3ooo for spike buck. Freezer full opening weekend.
Got to WV camp just after dark Friday, first time it's snowed before deer opener in 47 years. Took several runs to get up the hill.The snow was melting and we had rivers running down the ruts we call a driveway. Didnt see any deer at camp for 2 days, till 99guy showed up for sight in. While "shootin" the breeze, a nice 8 pointer walked across the field in front of the trailer. Got settled in my stand a few minutes befoe 7 Monday morning. At 7:10 a shot went off so close it scared the jeebers out of me. At 7:15 there was another shot, so I figured the neighbor got that nice 8. At 7:26 I saw that rack slowly bobbing above the hay, walking straight at me. I could see he was limping on one rear leg. At about 60 yards I put the peep of the 22HP right under his chin, on his neck. Bang flop! The neighbor had hit him in the right rear knee. The neighbor showed up an hour or so later and asked if he could see where he hit him? He had 4 pieces of bone he found in the snow where he hit it. He shook hands, took some pics, and congratulated me for being a better shot. I'm having trouble with my photo host and can't post pics. If I can't get it fixed I'll send them to someone to post them for me.
Nice shooting! Glad the neighbor was good about it, guy who puts it on the ground for good is the one who should get the deer.
“The Savage 99 Pocket Reference”. All models and variations of 1895’s, 1899’s and 99’s covered. Also dates, checkering, engraving.. Find at www.savagelevers.com
Thanks John, that shot was for you. I used the peep because he was so close and some of my friends were teasing me that I didn't know how to use irons. Thanks Rory, I was glad he didn't want to argue also. It really wasn't close, he never would have caught up with it. It was a wound the deer would have survived. The first thing he said was he knew it wasn't a fatal wound.He took some pics with the deer to show his guys what he missed. A few years ago I let one of his guys keep a small scraggly 8 that I chest shot. Found pieces of lung hanging on the fence where it rubbed trying to jump over. The young guy said the deer was standing still, wobbling, when he shot. Then he said something funny. He said, I know you killed him, but I put him down, can I keep him. I already had a bigger 4 point, so I said sure, keep him.
This gives me 3 parts of the slam. All I need is one with a 303, leaning towards the 1899B. I'm hunting the MD opener, but it's shotgun only where we are. Then I'm getting my knee replaced. We have a late buck season in January, in my county, which is a rifle county. So, I'm hoping I'll be able to get out for that. If not, next year.
“The Savage 99 Pocket Reference”. All models and variations of 1895’s, 1899’s and 99’s covered. Also dates, checkering, engraving.. Find at www.savagelevers.com
Great story. There are still some good guys around. It could have turned quite ugly. I vaguely remember something similar getting ugly when I was a teenager. It involved some people I only knew slightly.
wyo1895 With Savage never say never. For a copy of my book on engraved Savage lever actions rifles send a check for $80 to; David Royal, p.o. box 1271, Pinedale, Wy., 82941. I will sign and inscribe the book for you. [email protected]
This fella showed up ten minutes after I got in the stand. The 99F fits me just right and the 300 savage worked as advertised. I had mostly spikes on camera so was very happy with this one. Then my hunting buddy with a Winchester 88 shoots an even bigger one out of the same stand the next morning. Maybe they are attracted to lever actions.
Took a little walk this evening. Old faithful went along. 1957 99f in 300 topped with that Leupold M8 6x and of course 180 grain silvertip ammo. This gun loves it but deer don't. 60 yard shot, 70 yard track job and I had him.
Perfect Jim.
NRA Endowment Life Member (and proud of it)
Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.
Wise men speak because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something. - Plato
Very nice, Sherwood. I'm jealous.. freezer is still empty.
“The Savage 99 Pocket Reference”. All models and variations of 1895’s, 1899’s and 99’s covered. Also dates, checkering, engraving.. Find at www.savagelevers.com
There are no innocent little game animals, they are all guilty and deserve what they get!
wyo1895 With Savage never say never. For a copy of my book on engraved Savage lever actions rifles send a check for $80 to; David Royal, p.o. box 1271, Pinedale, Wy., 82941. I will sign and inscribe the book for you. [email protected]
Thanks guys! I usually use a .308 or 7x57 for moose but I got this savage earlier this fall for 100$ and just had an urge to fill the freezer with it. (we don't have a freezer, we hang till winter and then thaw and butcher. This guy was frozen solid about 4 days after I got it) This is an average/small moose for around here; body and antlers. Exceptional eating! Called it in to the cabin; showed up late in the evening it was dark. So I called in the morning he came in again. I was in my pajamas I know this is controversial but I have been taken the past few years by the neck shot. If I am close, like under 100 yds, and the situation is good, like lots of opportunity for a follow up shot, (and you're a good shot and know your anatomy) the neck shot at the base of the skull is quite spectacular. I won't recommend it but this is how this guy went down.
Happy hunting!
I have to ask, is that a hunting cabin or your residence? You on satellite internet?
![[Linked Image]](https://www.24hourcampfire.com/ubbthreads/gallery/80/full/81238.jpg)
![[Linked Image]](https://www.24hourcampfire.com/ubbthreads/gallery/80/full/81239.jpg)
![[Linked Image]](https://i.imgur.com/fy0HzQl.jpg)
![[Linked Image]](https://i.imgur.com/i8E6ANa.jpg)
![[Linked Image]](https://i.imgur.com/MfL6vaN.jpg)
I know this is controversial but I have been taken the past few years by the neck shot. If I am close, like under 100 yds, and the situation is good, like lots of opportunity for a follow up shot, (and you're a good shot and know your anatomy) the neck shot at the base of the skull is quite spectacular. I won't recommend it but this is how this guy went down.![[Linked Image]](https://i.imgur.com/c22nJwP.jpg)
![[Linked Image]](https://www.24hourcampfire.com/ubbthreads/gallery/80/medium/83981.jpg)
![[Linked Image]](https://www.24hourcampfire.com/ubbthreads/gallery/80/medium/84048.jpg)
![[Linked Image]](https://i.imgur.com/OfRYReH.jpg)
![[Linked Image]](https://i.imgur.com/e2oBuYX.jpg)
![[Linked Image]](https://i.imgur.com/MP2jrT5l.jpg)
![[Linked Image]](https://i.imgur.com/qBzx4ayl.jpg)
![[Linked Image]](https://i.imgur.com/4AT1ov6l.jpg)
![[Linked Image]](https://i.imgur.com/vDomRLWl.jpg)
![[Linked Image]](https://i.imgur.com/uaXBAphl.jpg)
![[Linked Image]](https://i.imgur.com/L75kIRt.jpg)
![[Linked Image]](https://www.24hourcampfire.com/ubbthreads/gallery/80/full/84510.jpg)
![[Linked Image]](https://i.imgur.com/4Co6GVYl.jpg)
![[Linked Image]](https://i.imgur.com/xASwPxdl.jpg)
![[Linked Image]](https://www.24hourcampfire.com/ubbthreads/gallery/80/medium/84847.jpg)
![[Linked Image]](http://i.imgur.com/ufkC0j9.jpg)
![[Linked Image]](https://i.imgur.com/YqeXwLu.jpg)
![[Linked Image]](http://i64.tinypic.com/2uo77l4.jpg)
![[Linked Image]](http://s26.photobucket.com/user/rushmoreman/media/Savage%2099%20doe_zps6fphryup.jpg.html)
![[Linked Image]](https://i.imgur.com/5I1CHyBl.jpg)
![[Linked Image]](http://i.imgur.com/gca9rns.jpg)
![[Linked Image from i.postimg.cc]](https://i.postimg.cc/G9RDVKXr/DSCN4329.jpg)