Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Savage Collectors Getting the old 38-55 out for doe season in PA

I was able to score on a nice buck in SE PA during the regular season with a slug gun and am looking forward to using my shooter 38-55 1899 in the late doe season. I lost access to a rifle zone over 15 years ago and can't wait to get the old girl out again.

The new straight walled case regulations will let me use my 38-55 1899 and my .375 99Brush where I have been hunting. It has me especially excited for the late doe season.

I'm jealous of your 38-55 ammo. I'm building a 99 in 38-55, didn't want to spend 100$ on a box of ammo so bought snap caps for testing the feed, etc.

I've been scrapping ammo together for years. I think I have 10 boxes of 38-55 in case I need to defend the homestead LOL.

I've got Winchester, CIL, Buffalo Bore and Remington and a box of custom reloads a friend did for me to keep me shooting.

I've also got about 4 boxes of .375.

The 38-55 Buffalo bore is also shootable (As are all the 38-55) in my .375. They are pretty stout so I don't shoot them very much in the 1899, but I have done so with no ill effects. They just shoot about 2 inches higher at 75 yards.

I have plenty/too much ammunition for guns I have but no 38-55. I'm considering posting a trade in the classifieds trying to trade some buffalo bore 45-70, Remington 250, or winchester 250 for factory 38-55. After I get the rifle together I'll reload but want to test everything out with factory.

I'd like to check out a .375 sometime. Seems like a fun round.

When do you get to take her out in the woods for a doe?

The 38-55 definitely has me salivating. Good luck on your doe season.

December 26 to January 28 in the zone I hunt.

Rifle doe season used to be two days in PA.

Classy!!

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have taken 2 moose with my mod B with open sites, at about 100 yards for the first one😊


Norm

I will post that in Idaho it seems cowboy action 38/55 ammo is for sale.

When I get back in January I will check it out.

And let you know.

Good luck Roger. I can get my Senior license in MD for $5 now. WV doesn’t reciprocate, and their season comes in first, so I got my WV. Was just getting ready to get my license for our late 3 day buck season in January. My friend called and said they cancelled it in my zone? I’ll have to find out? I was betting the farm on those 3 days, my freezer is empty.

I'm having trouble making room.

Sorry to hear about the season change for you.

Joe, I hate to say it but I've been buying those $5 licenses for 4 years now!

An affordable .38-55, or better yet .32-40, would get my Savage juices flowing again.

Gary, I don't even pay that. Once a Florida resident reaches 65 y/o, they hunt and fish for free. Don't even need a license. I'm on my second year

Gary, take my word for it, you don't need a calculator, you are older than me. Last year was my first year.

Tim, a few years after my Uncle passed a way, my Dad quit hunting. Said he just didn't feel like it. He lived in WV. A few years later he said he felt like hunting again. Went to Walmart and the girl laughed and said, "you don't pay for a license anymore", and handed him 6 tags. That's back when you still had to check them in. No one ever asked, but when Dad started hunting again, we realized he quit because he missed his brother that much.

That's kind of where I'm at... Iove my 99s, but I'm also fairly practical with my rifle purchases these days. At this point a 38-55 or 32-40 are really my only real practical use choices for another 99, and neither of those options come cheap these days.

OP, hope you get a crack with the old 38-55 😁

Thanks, I kinda felt guilty not taking one of my savages out during buck season but my Benelli Super Black Eagle dedicated slug gun is really dialed in and has some high quality Zeiss glass on it so I went with that. The Winchester partition gold slugs puts it into stout 45-70 ballistics. It thumps them.

Doe season will be awesome with the 1899.

Freezers and gun safes are a lot alike. When one gets full you just buy another.

AMEN

Nothing yet with the 38-55 but I'm going to go out tomorrow morning to give it another try.