Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Savage Collectors New to me 99A -375 Win

Nice find Hanco. I have a 3.5x10 Leupold on a bolt .223 Savage Model 14. Really like gun and scope. Combo a real good accuracy pair. Curious, did you find your .375 locally or online?

GunBroker buy it now, 1695.00, probably paid too much, but since it look’s unfired, maybe it was a terrible price.

Close enough for pig thumpin'! Should be a blast.

Sure miss the hunting in Texas...

I’m so
It is fun, gotten as many as 30 in one weekend.

It is fun, gotten as many as 30 in one weekend.

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Twas a good find-Not a bad price from what I've seen on other 99's in 358/375 Win. Was thinking about maybe searching for/getting one to hunt deer with here in Iowa during one of the firearm seasons instead of using 12 gu slugs or the Marlin 94 44 Mag I've been using the last couple of years. Scarcity of 99's in my general area took me to GI and GB. The prices on those sites sort of put the quest on the back burner, haven't checked in a while.

Curious again Hanco. In Texas with the abundance of hogs to shoot, what do most hunters do with the carcasses after shooting? Rendering works, butcher for eating, leave for critters and fowl (Buzzards gotta eat, same as worms), give away to others for eating? Here in Iowa coyote hunters who used to get not to bad a price for pelts have no means to get rid of them. Hide buyers won't take them due to no market for them. They still hunt em though, Too many of those killers around, bad on pheasants. I don't hesitate not to shoot one if within range.

Some of the guys skin one sometimes, mostly Coyote and buzzard bait. GunBroker prices are up and down.

David, got my copy of vol 2 today. Can't put it down. Love it.

We don't have em up here in Northern Iowa, two cold for em, but they are down in southern Iowa in counties close to state border lines. Me, I'd not want to eat one of em, have heard of too many diseases and such they carry, besides being a filthy animal. Not like deer and game birds. Your hogs are like how our river carp use to be. Guys I ran with we use to hit the two rivers alot back in the day on weekends having alot of fast and furious shooting with 22's, cap and ball percussion, and later on .357's. Was not real legal but the carp were not good for the game fish. Where I learned fast point handgun shooting. After the DNR introduced otters in the rivers the carp populations went down, but those killers also would kill game fish. Many unrecorded accounts/rumors of otters meeting their fate.

never understood why Savage didn't put sling swivels on a hunting rifle.

Well, actually they did. My 1912 1899H in 22HP has the eye's for the "Optional sling strap and swivels, at $1.50".

Them little buggers would eat good. One or two of them that is...