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Randy, 99guy, has one. Talk to Chris, he can build you one.
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"!!!!!!!!!!  You could always give JES a call and that 300 could be your new 358!
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300 magazine is too short for 358, unless you use stumpy pistol bullets.
I was fiddling around with rechambering experiments in the 300 I eventually just sent to get rebarreled in 250. I did come up with one I called 358 Short, that fed ok, but because of the shoulder differences and the rotor, only 2 or 3 rounds would go into the magazine and feed reliably. It was just a 358 Win with the shoulder pushed back a bit, then the neck shortened down considerably. COAL came in between 2.580 and 2.595 with 200-225gr bullets.
Case capacity was a bit more than a 35 Remington, but considerably less than standard 358. Basically it would have been +P 35 Rem.
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Whether a 99 magazine will handle 358/308/243 length cartridges is only dependent on the serial number, not on the current cartridge. If the rifle serial number is 900,000 or higher or starts with a letter, it will handle the longer cartridgers.
Under 900,000 and it won't handle a 358/308/243 length cartridge.
So you can have a 1965 99E in 300 Savage that could be converted to 358 Win.. but you could never convert a 1945 99 in 300 Savage to it.
“ 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
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Good point. I was referring to the older, shorter action that limits you to 2.600"
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Blacktail- we are waiting on that .300 to bark
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I certainly can agree with the fact that my '57 99F .300 Savage is an ideal one handed walking around rifle, but alas that isn't the way that most of us hunt these days. I wish that I was young and spry enough with a big enough woods to hunt to go tracking like a Benoit brother, but I'm a stand hunter these days and my 99 has been relegated into a #2 position behind a bolt action. There are only two things that I've had an issue with: #1 the lever safety seems counter intuitive forward to safe and back to fire. And #2 that steel lever gets cold holding it in a November deer stand. Much as all the forum fellows here like those 99's, what really convinced me that I needed one was that picture in Deer & Deer Hunting Magazine of the guy in a black cowboy hat with a Savage 99 and a gargantuan big buck on his flat bed truck.
My other auto is a .45
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