A question for collectors?

Wondering what caliber you would buy in a rebarreled 99? Would it be a 7mm-08 or 358 win? Or other older cartridges 32-40 38-55?
Cartridges never offered?

Very curious here please let me know your thoughts.
Thanks Chris

Maybe a 1-10 twist 250-3000 stock or rebarreled
Maybe a 35 rem in a EG. or maybe a G.
A 32-40, a 32 win spcl would get.my attention. Others i am sure. If i think about it.

I overlooked the 32 Winchester

😀 bet there is more i overlooked😁

A .32-40 would have me thinking.

I've already built mine. 35 Rem EG

But, I have always wanted a 32-40.

The question for me is what platform would I build it on?

A 3030 G? Be just a barrel id bet. Or a ruger #1 with a 30 inch octagon 1 inch on the flats? Or a highwall instead of the ruger. Probably cost the same today.

Dude. Got to be a 99/1899 platform.

.25-35, preferably a takedown carbine that would fit into my carpetbag.

Chris, you know my vote and your building it LOL 6.5 Creedmoor - Parts are being rounded up!

Chris, I'd like a 450 Bushmaster, anything on a 284 case starting with a 338, 375, maybe a 6.5.

😁😁😁😁😁😁G string it is then! Or a T or a F 😊

.38-55 or .32-40 for me.

If pre-900K receiver, .270 Titus. If post-900K receiver, 7mm-08.

I would get (..already have one from CTW ) a 7-08 barrel, because it fits any post-mil receiver, and it's almost as popular as the 308 here in the NE. But the 7-08 will never replace the 284 here at my house.

I am currently nursing a chronic desire for another 99 barrel band, and I would think making a slew of 250 replacement barrels with the optional cross-cut for the forearm pin..? But alas, the affordable donor rifles seem all but gone, of course 250's have always demanded a premium no matter what model.

Speaking of 250 barrel bands, this one has a later factory replacement barrel with a 1-10" twist. Old gun, modern twist. Best of both worlds.

I have to respect the late Ken Waters' opinion that the .338 Federal is an improvement on both the .308 and the .358.

A .224 caliber fast twist 22HP with the base dimension tightened up so you don't get the bulge from undersized brass.

Question...what dimensions are different between a fixed barrel rifle and a take down barreled rifled?

..now You're just showing off.. is it for sale?

Ill say 1-10 twist old quality 99!

I'd like a "T" with a scaled down action in 223 Winchester, and a barrel band "H" in 35 Remington please.

Hey you brought it up. LOL

Nah, I hope to *someday* have time to actually use my guns again.

Rick should be no differences in the solid to takedown other than the locking slot. On the later full thread barrels that is. I have notices some takedowns have had the lower feed ramp peened out to contact the barrel? Maybe a fix for factory timing? Maybe a factory trick like the lever bite?

Jeff it has been a long time but I think the 7mm-08 has square threads the only post mill tang safety I have seen with them?

Roy the crazy i do not want to sell the 450 would be pretty high. Are you still planning to have an older barrel rebored for the project?

I was aking with thoughts of rebarreling donor rifles for resale but seems we all are unique. I do hope to buid a rotory mag 7mm-08 to sell and another posibly in 358? Am trying to gauge how easy to sell such a critter.

I’m having one made into a 338 Federal, barrel should be on the way, mailing rifle off tomorrow. I’m eager to get that done for next hunting season. I have a 358, not much recoil with 180 Barnes. The Federal should be a ton of fun to shoot.

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Roy the crazy i do not want to sell the 450 would be pretty high.

Understood, I see the problem, but I have a solution. I'll take it for the "I really want to unload this POS gun" price. That seems like a really good solution. LOL

Are you still planning to have an older barrel rebored for the project?

Unless a 450 falls in my lap. *see above post.

I was aking with thoughts of rebarreling donor rifles for resale but seems we all are unique. I do hope to buid a rotory mag 7mm-08 to sell and another posibly in 358? Am trying to gauge how easy to sell such a critter.

Oh I figured out why you were asking.

You would know what they would need to sell for to make you a profit but it seems like finding good donor wood and actions is the first problem. If you did it as a cottage industry I would source new wood rather than try to find good used wood. But then you have the funkiness factor of aftermarket wood, plus fitting, plus checkering, plus finishing. Buying 300 EG's for donors might be easy but not cheap anymore. Ending up at less than $2K with new barrels, wood and all the work might be hard. On the other hand, if you went ahead and did it right and made high end customs you might find buyers in the $3-4K range for well done 99's. JMO

And yet another season of the grand old soap opera "As the Stomach Turns".

That’s 😄 funny

I want to say something like "If you're so put off, why don't you start a thread and post some photos of one of those pristine guns you hunt with, only one of which has added sling studs"?

Then we could make a comment on your thread.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNh3ZWw9MJg

Well, let's put it this way. I am really not interested on your opinion.

So we have an accord.

Well played.

Sheet storm averted...

See above.

Detente...

Chris asked about building rifles for people that are spending their own money on something they want to buy. Money they've earned and are entitled to spend any way they want. Last I knew that weren't any kind of crime. That's what this thread is about. Don't like it, don't read it. The rest of us that do want to talk about it can do so in peace. Real simple.

*I didn't read about the firing pin thread because I wasn't interested. I thought that's kinda how it worked. Maybe I should go complain about it.

Not a collector here, but the 358 can be had factory, so maybe a 30-40 krah.

Do both a 7-08 and 358. Both will probably sell.

35 Rem

If I couldn't have a .32-40 in something like a 22" 99G, please Santa can I have a .35/.30-30 wildcat? I always said such a beast would be a well nigh perfect woods thumper, brother in arms with the .35 Remington (and a wonderful cast bullet platform). If feeling generous that wildcat barrel would be a nice adjunct to the .32-40 barrel.

Might as well add 22-250 to that list of "name-your-selling-price" custom 99s

7-08 ,358, 22-250 boxed set!

Jeff, the 22-250 would open up many more options for donor rifles and would in theory feed from a 300 or 250.

I wonder how many until the market would become flooded?

A fast twist to open up bullet selection.

You'd still need to keep an eye on case pressure for those heavy bullet full-throttle loads. A 99 action is never going to be a prarie-dog bench rifle anyway. There's no flies on a 12-twist 22 cal, goes up to 60 or 65g pills fearlessly (even in a 219Z!!) for poking coyotes and woodchucks.