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I used my EG as my primary hunting rifle for the first time this year. They are the most common variant of the 99 it seems, particularly in .300, but I love mine (and it's not in as nice shape as yours). They are so graceful in your hands and point so nicely. Mine also feeds and cycles slick as glass.

Don't know if you reload or not, but mine is a good shooter with cast bullet loads and that's what I used on my deer. I did mount a good receiver sight on mine which allows me to shoot it better. I think you're going to like that rifle.

I do roll my own and currently cast for 45-70, 45 acp and 45 LC. I have a 113gr mold on the way for plinking, varmit loads for the 308 or 300. I will probably order a 4 cavity mold from Accurate Molds where two will be 140gr and two will be 180 gr, both gas checked.


I do roll my own and cast for 45-70, 45 acp and 45 LC. I have a 113 gr mold on the way to use for plinking, varmits in my 308 or the 300 savage. I am probably going to order a 4 cavity mold from Acurrate Molds. Twp would be for 140 gr and two for 180 gr, both gas checked.

The Ideal 31141 mold I have works well with my 99, the NOE copy with the bigger diameter nose works well too, but I have to seat it deeper and my 1920 doesn't like it much.

The NOE copy is what I killed my deer with.

Is the NOE mold 170gr? The 140gr I am looking at hss a .240 meplat snd the 180gr has a .180 meplat. I was planning on using the 140gr on deer and the 180gr on larger game.

This was from a group buy on another site, it's nominally a 170, but it weighed a bit more, I can't remember off the top of my head what.

I'm getting ready to try the RCBS 180 grain flat point and see how it does. Ought to be a winner, heavy and a big meplat. From what I'm hearing, it shoots well in pretty much every .30 caliber.

[quote=Calhoun]A serial number of 422,xxx probably dates to 1943.

This got me thinking! At what point did savage start focusing on the war effort? I thought they stopped producing 99's during the war.

Serial numbers 421,191 to 423,040 were produced in 1943 according to Moreton in an article in 1973 Guns and Ammo Annual. Savage was heavily into war production building Browning 30 and 50 cal M2 aircraft machine guns, Thompson sub-machine guns and British No 4 Mk1 Enfield rifles but they still found time to do some civilian production. Savage was awarded the Army-Navy "E" Award for high efficiency in 1942, 43, 44, and 1945 so they weren't slack. They were often ahead of schedule with their deliveries to the military so maybe that's why they could find time to do some civilian production. Moreton's article is reprinted in Savage & Stevems Arms, Cory Publishing, Portland, Or. David

great info thanks

norm