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Having never owned a 99 before, I’ve never hunted with one until today...300sav. I hiked into a hole to watch a saddle, hoping one of the bigger bucks that use the area on a regular basis would walk by..... didn’t happen. I did see several small bucks and a bunch of does throughout the day, but nothing I wanted to take home. It’s early yet, I’ll place my bets on the rut.... The 99 sure is made to carry comfortably with its narrow rounded action. Hope I can put it to work pretty soon.
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Nice shootin iron. Good luck!
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Very nice! Great pictures too, and with a Lightfoot mount. Sweet..
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Great pics! Thanks for the show!!
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You keeping hunting that ground and you'll be tagging a big blacktail!
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Good luck! Hope you get a big one.
I think all my 99s are cursed. Everytime I hunt with one I don't even see a deer or bear. It I take my grandfather's M70 .270 I get what I'm after. Probably just the luck of the draw I suppose.
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You keeping hunting that ground and you'll be tagging a big blacktail! FB2, I followed your successful bear hunt - that was an exciting read to say the least! I need to buy a bear tag and spend some time on them. I’ve never really wanted to shoot/eat one and have walked away from several on this property in the past.... I need to give it a try. There’s some dandy blacktails on this property for sure. The hard part is staying off the trigger!
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There’s some dandy blacktails on this property for sure. The hard part is staying off the trigger! I know that one well. You wait all year for hunting season, it's time to HUNT!
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Nothing like harvesting a nice buck with a classic rifle. I've hunted with nothing but vintage rifles for the past 56 seasons.
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You guys that can hunt deer with your 99's are lucky. I can only dream of doing so. I'd like nothing better than to hunt deer with either of my 250's or 300 Savage 99's. Iowa DNR reg's during firearm season (other than muzzleloaders) is slug shotgun or a number of limited straight wall rifle calibers, no bottleneck's. I have used my Marlin 94 Cowboy lever gun in 44 Magnum. Will drop them, but range is limited. That part is ok as most of my ambush sites I hunt in are 40 yards or less. Having three 99's that could drop a deer, but not being able to hunt with them reminds me of my high school years. Going to school dances and wanting to be with one or two of the prettiest girls there, but they always had boy friends. "Oh the pain of it"!!!!!! At around the 50th class reunion we were sitting around talking about the old days, dances, dating, this and that. One of the girls I really liked asked me why I never asked her out. Told her I was to bashful to ask and figured she won't.. She advised she would have gone out with me. Advised her "Now ya tell me"!!!!!!!!!!
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Nothing like harvesting a nice buck with a classic rifle. I've hunted with nothing but vintage rifles for the past 56 seasons. I never thought about it. I shot my first deer with my Dad's Rem pump 30-06. He won it in a raffle in 68. Then I bought a 50's Marlin 336 in 35 Rem, used it for about 20 years, and it's been Savages ever since, and the newest of them is a 1950R in 250 and the oldest is a 1912 HP.
I'm not greedy, I just want one of each.
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You guys that can hunt deer with your 99's are lucky. I can only dream of doing so. I'd like nothing better than to hunt deer with either of my 250's or 300 Savage 99's. Iowa DNR reg's during firearm season (other than muzzleloaders) is slug shotgun or a number of limited straight wall rifle calibers, no bottleneck's. I have used my Marlin 94 Cowboy lever gun in 44 Magnum. Will drop them, but range is limited. That part is ok as most of my ambush sites I hunt in are 40 yards or less. Having three 99's that could drop a deer, but not being able to hunt with them reminds me of my high school years. Going to school dances and wanting to be with one or two of the prettiest girls there, but they always had boy friends. "Oh the pain of it"!!!!!! At around the 50th class reunion we were sitting around talking about the old days, dances, dating, this and that. One of the girls I really liked asked me why I never asked her out. Told her I was to bashful to ask and figured she won't.. She advised she would have gone out with me. Advised her "Now ya tell me"!!!!!!!!!! Same here, only thing I've popped with a 99 is coyote, since I didn't pick up my first one until well after I'd moved away from a rifle deer state. The icing on the cake is I live less than 2 miles from Indiana, where any of them would be deer legal on private property. My sister in-laws's family own several hundred acres across the state line about 4 miles from my house, but they don't let anyone hunt it. 😕 Good luck on your hunt Blacktail99. I think you'll be very satisfied with the results when you do drop the hammer with the old 300, the rifle's a beauty.
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Savage940C- check your Iowa regs this year. True, you won't find the .250 or .300 legal but you could use a .358 or .375 if you could find one or the other. May be an opportunity for American ingenuity!
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Good luck on your hunt Blacktail99.
Blacktail99.....? I’ve been rebadged! Lol...... At least it’s a cool handle !
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the first hunt i had with a 99 was when i was about 1972, i killed a buck with my 300 over the decades i have had many. they are a great gun. and that is a nice 99 you have,,,,,,,,,,
I have never harvested a animal but I have killed quite a few,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
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Nice rifle, Mr Fireball2 got me hooked on 99’s, sold me a nice 308 cheap. It’s been multiplying since then. They are really fun to hunt with, accurate beyond my expectations. I wish I had discovered them earlier in my life.
Good luck, get a big un!!
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Good luck on your hunt Blacktail99.
Blacktail99.....? I’ve been rebadged! Lol...... At least it’s a cool handle ! Oops... we were talking about 99s...slip of the keys 😬
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You guys that can hunt deer with your 99's are lucky. I can only dream of doing so. I'd like nothing better than to hunt deer with either of my 250's or 300 Savage 99's. Iowa DNR reg's during firearm season (other than muzzleloaders) is slug shotgun or a number of limited straight wall rifle calibers, no bottleneck's. I have used my Marlin 94 Cowboy lever gun in 44 Magnum. Will drop them, but range is limited. That part is ok as most of my ambush sites I hunt in are 40 yards or less. Having three 99's that could drop a deer, but not being able to hunt with them reminds me of my high school years. Going to school dances and wanting to be with one or two of the prettiest girls there, but they always had boy friends. "Oh the pain of it"!!!!!! At around the 50th class reunion we were sitting around talking about the old days, dances, dating, this and that. One of the girls I really liked asked me why I never asked her out. Told her I was to bashful to ask and figured she won't.. She advised she would have gone out with me. Advised her "Now ya tell me"!!!!!!!!!! Not true any longer. The DNR made changes this summer to include many bottle-neck cartridges from .35 cal cartridges to .50 caliber cartridges now with a minimum of 500 ft-lbs of energy, including the 35 Rem, the 358 Win, 35 Whelen and up. However, illogically, your 250 and 300 are still not legal along with a whole passel of traditional deer cartridges. https://www.iowadnr.gov/Portals/idnr/uploads/Hunting/huntingregs.pdfSee page 38
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Heard the DNR is contemplating adding new calibers, hadn't seen the final results. Thanks for posting. Wish Savage had issued a 99 in 35 Rem back in the day, esp in the older Pre War R's and such.
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