Watching a movie titled "49th Parallel" on TCM as I write this. Nazi sub is sunk in northern Canada and the landing party previously sent out to take over the radio shack at a Hudson Bay trading post. The party ends up killing several trading post folks while trying to commandeer a float plane. One of the Eskimos gets the opportunity to shoot one of the party and he has a 99. Of course, he scores, probably a 22HP. On now.

Haven't seen this reported before but haven't searched either.

Just turned it on-saw a Winchester 1895.

LHS

Yep,saw that one too. By the time I posted about it the movie had moved on of course. One of those home front propaganda films made for Canada.

BTW, welcome to the forum LHS. Looks like you scored a nice first 99. They are like potato chips ya know.

Thank you Steve. I've already gleaned more here than I thought possible.

LHS

While I was trapped in front of the tube, rehabbing from my surgery, I saw a SciFi movie where a teen age girl was carrying a 99. If I can find it again I’ll post it.

Joe, it was probably "The Axe Giant" a crazy paul bunyan,after the kids roasted babe the blue ox. a schene where he was running after them ,and they were shooting back at him with a savage 99 while in the back of a pickup truck !!! pretty hokie movie. Don

I saw one in Hoffa the other night.

Nope. This one was post end of the world. A guy went around collecting all the kids, keeping them in his compound, making them scrounge hi tech stuff for him. He made a hive of nano bugs, and put wrist collars on the kids. If they tried to escape he sent the bugs out to slice and dice them.

I guess i'll have to watch for that one!!

Sounds like a quality movie. You sure it wasn't part of the pain meds experience from surgery?

Unfortunalty it was two weeks after the meds wore off. I'm going to see if I can find it as soon as this can of soup gets hot.

It's called, "A Feral World" not as bad as the B movies from the 50's and 60's. I'm going to watch it again. Maybe I'll fall asleep?

....or maybe use a 99 on the TV set for it daring to show you such stuff! A .303 works pretty good against an old Zenith, don't know how well it'll do against a flat screen.

What did the hunter say driving behind a Dodge pu in the rain. The sh it coming off that Ram is incredible.

I spotted a 99 in the movie Death Hunt with Lee Marvin and Charles Bronson. It was carried by Bronson's character. Two of my favorite actors. Great action movie. Set in early 1900's Alaska.

The movie is loosely based on Albert Johnson. A trapper on the Rat River. Lots of info about the incident the movie is based on. They never found out who Johnson really was.

His 99 is in a museum.

Death Hunt ranks high on my all time favorite movies, with Joe Kidd. Wasn’t Angie Dickenson the girl in DH?

Personally I liked all the characters and their prop guns they carried in that movies. I especially liked when Lee Marvin opened his foot locker and dug out his Colt New Service revolver to go along with his Krag carbine.

Would a real Canadian Mountie have been carrying a Krag carbine or an Enfield 303 in that time period? Honest question.

I’d bet my boots the bullet that killed Albert Johnson was launched from a 303 British.

Good question, Randy. I don't know any old Mounties to ask! Joe Martin is old, but he's not a Mountie.

Personally, I would've stayed in the sack with Angie Dickinson and sent some schmuck out to chase around in the woods. "Here's $20, let me know when you find him. Now get outta here!"

Were Mounties issued long arms? I surmise they were issued revolvers.

Yea, I don't know either. I enjoyed that movie as well, but I think it took a lot of historical artistic liberties.

I remember a Martin Sheen movie from awhile back and he was carrying a Savage 99

Here's a link to a database I had forgotten about until reading this thread.

Internet Movie Firearms Database

Enjoy!

LHS

Mounties at one time were issued winchester 1876 carbines in 45-75 caliber, rainbow trajectory at best.

Don't expect accuracy in movies. All they are interested in is saving money and projecting their desired image. Most of them don't even know which end the bullet comes out of. And if a Savage 99 was cheaper to rent than a Winchester or a Krag or an Enfield or a Ross (Canadian made military rifle). The Ross would have been the most likely Mountie firearm since it was made in Canada. My wife has a sporterized Ross that belonged to her grandfather. Anyone want to see a pic?

I think it was Jeff that brought a couple Ross rifles to Noxen last year. One is on my "someday" list.

Boltman who used to be on here was a Ross expert, He supplied info for the bluebook. I think he was also the owner of one of the "PERRIS SPECIAL" savages.

Funny you should mention that, if you watch the very last scene in the movie Mr. Johnson is carrying a long barreled full magazine Winchester with a crescent butt plate over the mountain, which I presume he traded his Savage 30-30 F for with the mad trapper who got his face blown off by Lee Marvin's 30-40 Krag Carbine.

I've always wanted to shoot a 280 Ross.

Checked that off the bucket list when I ran over about 10 guys at Noxen when Jeff said who wants to shoot my 280 Ross?