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You just take the damn thing hunting. There is no cut off line $$$ wise when it comes to hunting a rifle. Some prefer to hunt with a custon gun that isn't made of plastic. It's not my cup of tea when it comes to a hunting gun but I can see the draw to it.

I would hunt it, get a few dings on it. When I got old I would admire the rifle (what's left of it), notice the dings and scratches and remember the hunts where they came from.

Until it's your rifle it's not yours to label a "Safe Queen."

Terry

And until it's yours, you just have an opinion.

Like everyone else who posted on the subject.


JM

For Chrissakes, quit messin' around and take a stand, man.

I have a few like it and use them. Like I said.

Terry

Well said! Wonder how many folks that see buying/using a rifle like that as "retarded" have spent more on other hunting 'tools'? Many an ATV/UTV make that price tag look small. And there won't be much left of them to pass down the grandkids...

Latest Sports Afield has a brief write up on a Savage 99 in 250-3000 commissioned by John Francis Dodge (Dodge Brothers Motor Car Co.) in 1915. Apparently it recently turned up at the family estate. Was sitting in a corner in a closet, not even in a case, and never been fired. Sold at auction in April 2009 for $230,000 to an anonymous bidder.

Definitely spectacular! More pics available at this website.

http://www.cowanauctions.com/department_view_item.asp?ItemId=69069

Great idea...but a bit small for Thanksgiving dinner with the family. LOL
Hoomesteader

I shoot a trap gun that cost about twice what that 99 is listed for. I shoot it in the rain, snow and hot sun, and sits in the rack outside between shoots. That's what it was made for and that's how I use it.
I'd carry this beautiful gun in the woods with me every day, shoot it at the range and show it off to all my friends. That's
what it was made for.
Would you buy a $40,000 pick up and keep it in the garage, why would you worry about a $6000 gun, besides in 5 years the gun would be worth more than the pick up.

Not much hunting/shooting stuff I have that doesn't get used. Sometimes it takes awhile to get around to using it again, but it gets taken out and played with.

Paying good money for something and then letting it sit in the safe or corner to only pull out when the mood strikes is a little foreign to me. Every hunt is not in Alaska conditions or evolves rubbing around in a scabbard. Seems like more and more people are spending their BG deer time in stands, some of which are akin to being in your living room. If one can afford that rifle I'm sure they can swing a beater for the the times they wouldn't care to use the good stuff..

I think it would look great in one of this years upcoming deer thread pics.

There are those who pay 5 times that for a truck then cringe when they have to take it up a muddy road, but they paid extra for the rear lockers.

To each their own. My vote is to hunt it when appropriate.

I just came out on the good side of a little health scare. Changes ones perspective of what, why, where, when, etc. Doesn't make much sense to be dead with a bunch of nice unused firearms in the closet.

To show how people are different. I think a piece of wood like that on a table your going to eat off would be a bigger waste of money. "Hay kids remember the steak we had on that table back in 2010?" vs "I took that buck in 2010 with the Empire Savage. Not much about that day I don't remember."
One is a meal, the other a quickening that feeds you over and over beyond the happening.

But to each their own.

Put that on gunbroker and then post a link in the Savage forum below and all you got is a non-numbers matching reblued rat.

If I had the kind of cash to buy that, I'd hunt it and hunt it hard. No safe queens here.

This thing makes me even more sure i was stupid back then to buy a Harley Davidson. Could've bought three of those for the same money, the difference being i'd still give a [bleep] about 'em today.

Ahhh, to be flush just once more in life...

I would rather spend the money on a great hunting opportunity. I am a little on the conservative side, and wouldn't want to show up in a hunting camp with that one.

Although, a nicley re stocked M99 in medium grade walnut, stained dark, with an oil finish could be nice priced at about twelve hundred or less. Especially if shaped similiar to the originals except with a higher straight comb and a full pattern of hand checkering.

Yep, that is how I see. Thanks Terry, saved me lots of typing.

[sactoller quote]Yep that is how I see.Thanks Terry,saved me lots of typing [quote]



Agree with Terry and sactoller completely...I used to stick a Griffen&Howe 338 in saddle scabbards on elk hunts;used my Goens 270 in snow storms and almost got it run over by a jeep while retrieving a muley I killed with it.....they are meant and built to be "used".....

Problem is many folks equate "pretty" with "fragile"....the truth is you can use a good custom,hunt the hell out of it,and a good smith can retsore it to like new.....if you were really foolish enough to do it....if you will not hunt it, there is not much to distinguish a fine custom rifle from a coin collection.

Back in the 80's I owned Bob Chatfield-Taylor's M70 270 built by Len Brownell.....this was a really fine rifle that(by the time I got it)had worn bluing here and there,some dings in the stock as it had been carried on sheep hunts with the O'Connors,been to Africa, and Wyoming for pronghorn, deer and elk...But its' pedigree showed through and through,and a trip to the smith would have restored it......not that I ever thought of doing such a thing of course....

Truly a beautiful rifle.

It's certainly nice, but for significantly less than that you could pick out your own 99 and get it custom built to your own specs, with that grade of wood, quality engraving, and iron sights...

Personally, I think finely made rifles that take the various crafts to the highest state of the art are just that: A work of art. A testament to the upper limits of craftsmanship that is meant pretty much to be regarded and respected as such.

You know, in the same manner that one doesn't compare a velvet rendition of Elvis to Da Vinci's Mona Lisa...even though both, technically, are paintings.

Which is why the Mona Lisa doesn't hang over someone's kitchen table...or stand in the corner of a forgotten closet.

Sure is pretty. If I had that kind of cash I'd buy it in a heart beat, and hunt the dog piss out of it. That rifle in .358 would be sweet. I'm more impressed by what the did to the 99, the action work, the barrel and so on.

deffinately nice but i would rather have 4 to 6 nice original Savages that i could use,