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AWESOME, just AWESOME......


Mike....

I like this time of year on the forum.

Nice, very nice! Is the scope offset to the left on your rifle?

Very nicely done!

The picture is somewhat deceiving. Yes it is offset "somewhat." It's only about 1/32 of an inch. Because it is so high and because of the way the rifle is positoned the offset LOOKS much greater. I was really apprehensive of the height. But it was really allot easier than I thought it would be. That's a Weaver on it right now. While I was away, the boys in the shop finished a new mount for me so I can put my Lyman scope on it.

The short-lived Leupold 7/8" Alaskans seem to be about the right scale of scope for the Savage 1920s.

Jeff

Don't you mean LYMAN Alaskan?????

No, I mean the 2.5x, 4x, and 6x 7/8" Alaskan series of steel-tube scopes that Leupold made in 1990/91(ish). Optically speaking, they are far superior to any of the Connecticut-made Lyman Alaskans.

I will note for the record that Larry Koller's Savage 1920 sports a 2.5x Lyman Alaskan in a Weaver N mount, installed, I would assume, sometime after he wrote "Shots At Whitetails". Since that rifle has a history worth preserving, or at least for me it does, it gets to keep its Lyman optics.

Jeff

Jeff, You dont have his krag sporter to, do ya looked nice. Don

No, but I've seen LK's mannlicher stocked Springfield-Krag.

I wish that I had had the $$ to buy LK's 1st Model Newton in 256. G&H-style stock and G&H side-mount with a 6x Kollmorgan scope. The $1,200 asking price was more than this poor graduate student could afford in 1985. I also wish that I'd had the foresight and $$ to buy LK's Savage 99G about 20 years ago. $500 seemed like a lot of $$ then, even when considering that the rifle came with the original box, original receipt to LK, and hand-written bill of sale from LK.

Jeff

Yes Sir - I too love this time ........ " It's the most , wonderful time of the year "

LBK, Nan, congrats on a great hunt! That is a HUGE 4 pt. Great pics, thanks for sharing.

Did it look anything like this Krag sporter????

Oh...........................thats purty!

LBK, similar to it i dont remember if it had a recoil pad or not, only seen it in pictures ,nice looking rifle. Don

Thanks for the compliment. I traded a Winchester Mdl. 50 even for it about 15 years ago. Whoever did the woodwork on it used the original stock. Got a Redfield receiver sight from Gary Fellers. No tapping needed. Mounts in the magazine disconnect.

Similar, but not the same. IIRC, it had had the magazine modified so that it was flush with the right side of the stock.

The best mannlicher stocked Krag custom sporter that I've ever owned was made by Arlington(?), VT, 'smith Wilbur Hauck.

Jeff

Jeff, any idea where that Hauck Krag is today? About ten years back I was trying to track down a Hauck Krag, never caught up with the rifle, wonder if it was the same one.

Mark

The Savage 99 and Anticosti are just a natural match for me. I hunted Jupiter 12 a few years ago with Rene Borque. As I unloaded my 99 F TD there, another hunter proudly produced his "newer" 99C. Both were in .300.

Everyone in camp, including writer Jon R. Sundra admired the 99's as the classics they are. The Savages were paid more attention, and compliments than even several custom "beanfield" rifles that sport hefty pricetags. The 99's performed in the field, as the always do, superbly.

Yes, I'm pretty sure that it is in Anchorage, AK.

The story behind the rifle that I had was that WH made it for his Brother or BIL, who subsequently traded it toward a pre-'64 Winchester 70. I bought it from the late Bill DeVaux from Norwich, VT, in November 1984.

Jeff