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Beautiful rifle, Fireball. Who did the work? Lot of time and effort went into that rifle. Green with envy. I should probably look under the forearm but I'm not taking it apart to look for a name.
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Every screw is way outta time..geezus
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that is a fine looking rifle fireball. i had to wipe the drool off my keyboard  It's kind of cheating.  The factory could never produce a rifle like that. Going to have to agree to disagree on that one. ![[Linked Image from live.staticflickr.com]](https://live.staticflickr.com/1739/42847502271_a7cd3a9f8a_b.jpg)
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Every screw is way outta time..geezus Waaaay out! I know squeeler, it don't matter how desperate you got you wouldn't even wipe your butt with it!
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that is a fine looking rifle fireball. i had to wipe the drool off my keyboard It's kind of cheating. The factory could never produce a rifle like that. Going to have to agree to disagree on that one. It's in the attention to detail.
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that is a fine looking rifle fireball. i had to wipe the drool off my keyboard It's kind of cheating. The factory could never produce a rifle like that. Going to have to agree to disagree on that one. It's in the attention to detail. says it all!
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Gorgeous rifles there, fellas.
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Do you have Norm Strung’s .358?
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The "ole 300"
My Dad's Model 99 Savage.
Summer of 1927 my Dad told Mom that he'd just seen a beautiful rifle at the Mill Store. It, along with three cartridges, showed up under the Christmas tree that year. "They came sighted in back then," I was told. Three deer provided our family with meet that winter.
It was my Dad's only big game rifle. At age 87, November 1987, he shot it his last time. Took a nice 8 pointer. Black bear, elk, and dozens of Whitetail deer fell to it. Our family was never in need of meet over the 60 years he carried it.
I'd be in the woods with Dad and I could tell the sound of that "ole 99's" voice up to half mile away. When it spoke I'd hang my gun on my shoulder, head towards the sound, and get ready to drag. As Dad aged I remember looking at the ole 300 hanging in the rack and wonder if I'd hunt with it or hang it up in retirement some honored place in our home after I had inherited it. After he passed I took it off the rack, opened the action and there rolled up was a business card. On the back of the card, in his handwriting, were these words, "Give This Gun To _ _ _ _ . Our son, his grandson.
The "ole 300" continued to harvest Whitetail in his hands and now it resides in Alaska with the blessed man who inherited it.
Dad 8/26,1900 - 10/5/87
300 Savage 99 1927 (May be 1926) and still working.
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The "ole 300"
My Dad's Model 99 Savage.
Summer of 1927 my Dad told Mom that he'd just seen a beautiful rifle at the Mill Store. It, along with three cartridges, showed up under the Christmas tree that year. "They came sighted in back then," I was told. Three deer provided our family with meet that winter.
It was my Dad's only big game rifle. At age 87, November 1987, he shot it his last time. Took a nice 8 pointer. Black bear, elk, and dozens of Whitetail deer fell to it. Our family was never in need of meet over the 60 years he carried it.
I'd be in the woods with Dad and I could tell the sound of that "ole 99's" voice up to half mile away. When it spoke I'd hang my gun on my shoulder, head towards the sound, and get ready to drag. As Dad aged I remember looking at the ole 300 hanging in the rack and wonder if I'd hunt with it or hang it up in retirement some honored place in our home after I had inherited it. After he passed I took it off the rack, opened the action and there rolled up was a business card. On the back of the card, in his handwriting, were these words, "Give This Gun To _ _ _ _ . Our son, his grandson.
The "ole 300" continued to harvest Whitetail in his hands and now it resides in Alaska with the blessed man who inherited it.
Dad 8/26,1900 - 10/5/87
300 Savage 99 1927 (May be 1926) and still working.
BE STRONG IN THE LORD, AND IN HIS MIGHTY POWER. ~ Ephesians 6:10
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That's a great story Jim.
Now, I have to think the first question has been answered.
What's the next question?
Wag more, bark less.
The freedoms we surrender today will be the freedoms our grandchildren will never know existed.
The men who wrote the Second Amendment didn't just finish a hunting trip, they just finished liberating a nation.
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Great story, Rug3, and thanks for the pics of a great rifle, Fireball2.
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Rug3, that's what makes Savages so special. They just work so well. Great story.
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Stories like that get to me in a profound way.
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The "ole 300"
My Dad's Model 99 Savage.
Summer of 1927 my Dad told Mom that he'd just seen a beautiful rifle at the Mill Store. It, along with three cartridges, showed up under the Christmas tree that year. "They came sighted in back then," I was told. Three deer provided our family with meet that winter.
It was my Dad's only big game rifle. At age 87, November 1987, he shot it his last time. Took a nice 8 pointer. Black bear, elk, and dozens of Whitetail deer fell to it. Our family was never in need of meet over the 60 years he carried it.
I'd be in the woods with Dad and I could tell the sound of that "ole 99's" voice up to half mile away. When it spoke I'd hang my gun on my shoulder, head towards the sound, and get ready to drag. As Dad aged I remember looking at the ole 300 hanging in the rack and wonder if I'd hunt with it or hang it up in retirement some honored place in our home after I had inherited it. After he passed I took it off the rack, opened the action and there rolled up was a business card. On the back of the card, in his handwriting, were these words, "Give This Gun To _ _ _ _ . Our son, his grandson.
The "ole 300" continued to harvest Whitetail in his hands and now it resides in Alaska with the blessed man who inherited it.
Dad 8/26,1900 - 10/5/87
300 Savage 99 1927 (May be 1926) and still working. Great story. If you have the serial number (or first 3 digits), we can tell you which year it likely dates to. PS: The factory didn't sight the guns in back then, the catalogs specifically said they didn't due to the differences in how people shoot. Obviously, it came perfectly set for your dad.
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That story, Rug3, is heartwarming. Makes me think back to my father's rifles and the good times we had together. Thanks for that.
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great true story ,many of us don`t have a great family story like this one.i will be giving my grandson my favorite deer too. thank you posting your story,Pete53
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I have some set aside for my grandkids. I hope they all end up hunters. The oldest is almost 17. She hunts every deer season.
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My .250 came by way of my grandfather and father, too. It was sent from the factory to the warehouse in Utica, NY, on Oct. 17,1919, and to a store in St. Louis on the 19th. How it got to Elysburg, PA, is unknown. Grandpa died in 1929, 22yrs before I was born. Dad and his brothers used the gun , but Dad ended up with it after WWII. He left it to me when he died in Feb, 1992, but I couldn't take it out of the house until June. It's still hunted, but only in nice weather, and has taken 5 deer since then. Both the rifle and cartridge are, indeed, magical.
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Good thing I don't teach a poetry course....one of those verses could get in a person's mind. 😅 The lights went out and I ran for the door as the stranger sprang in the dark His aim was true and the sparks they flew as his donniker found its mark The poem continues: Mid might and main, and yelps of pain, two forms were found in the gloom Mid farts and foam and awful groans, the screams, they filled the room
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