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Well I for one refuse to buy a new Savage 99 until they start making them again!

If Marlin can stay afloat making lever guns and Winchester and Jap/Winchester can make'em and sell them why can't Savage make a 99 and sell them?

I'd sure buy a 99A in 250-3000 in a heartbeat.

I like my 336's and my 99,...but the 336's are lever guns. The 99 shoots as accurately as a bolt rifle, so I think of it differently.

I more or less consider it a bolt rifle that operates from the bottom.

Were Savage not minting coins with their simple, cheap to make and very accurate bolt guns, They could make the 99 again. With investment castings, CNC etc. it would not be difficult.
From a marketing standpoint, the question could be, that given the irrational bias toward bolt guns today (everybody is "tactical cool") would there be enough people to buy them?

As for the SAKO, it was a rifle w/o issues (unlike the 88), it was just too expensive and "foreign" before foreign was in.
As Packard used to say "ask the man who owns one", in my case owned two and sold them for huge money to a SAKO collector. Worked fine and were more accurate than an 88 or any Savage except a R or RS. Quality exceeded any post war 99 or Winchester.

Any Marlin blows away any Winchester with the possible exception of the 1886 era big bore guns. You get a mid to high grade Marlin 93 in 32-40 and it will just blow you away (and you could put a Malcolm scope on it too!)

I really want my grand dads 99 in 303 but prolly aint gonna get it. Ive got a Win 94 30-30 that my great uncle bought new and past it to me. It was made in '53

Yup the old 303 is neat. My 1899B with a Stith no drill mt and 2.5X Lyman Alaskan will do 1.5 MOA with the barnes TSX 150 Bucket mouth.

Yep. Except, like an Enfield, the bolt locks at the back, so when pressures get up there, you lose some safety & accuracy compared to a mauser-type bolt action. But I run my 99's well within SAAMI guidelines, and they do just fine.

I got flamed big time on another site some years back when I posted that my .308 M99 regularly shot sub-MOA groups. Posted a pic of a five-shot .60" group, but since the bastidges wasn't there to witness me shoot it, they refused to believe.

Whatever. There are none so blind as those who refuse to see.

My brother's 99 needed a little tweaking to shoot like that. Trigger job and skim bedding of the butt stock and forend, but shoot little groups it does. My dad's .250, circa 1919, shoots 1 1/2" consistently with the 87gr Hot-core.