Let’s see this years harvest with your savage.

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cool one FB.

First game taken with my 99. Missouri had a new 3 day antlerless season this year. I broke out my iron sighted lever gun. Great fun great rifle!

KC

Rattled this guy in this morning . He saw me and spun, made it a couple steps. One more and he was gone. Barely got him before he made it out of sight. Rifle was everyone's favorite 99F 358 that's been powdercoated and stocks painted. Perfect wet weather gun. 180 gr Barnes ttsx thru the top of the heart. Went through the far shoulder and kept going. I was the designated caller for a buddy and his wife but they posted up looking uphill and this guy came in from the creek bottom behind us. Great blacktail. 22" wide. Hung him in a tree and went the rest of the day without rattling in another buck.

That is a beauty of a blacktail.

I like what you did too your 99 to make it weatherproof. Nice buck right time right place.

The look of the gun surprised me, but I really like it.
Very nice deer. You’ve had a good hunting season already.

way to go, Roy

The gun is a running joke around here. I have to remind everyone that this was a rusty rifle with a shortened stock and a sewer pipe bore. I got lucky and it still shoots great though. The powder coat makes it warm and soft to carry in cold weather. Very nice feeling featherweight rifle. I once elk hunted with this rifle in a massive storm that dumped 17" of rain in a five gallon bucket I had sitting out in two days.

Great buck Roy , I Like your customs, you make Em work!

That's one beautiful head of horns! Great shootin'!

Yup, I definitely like the look. Got me thinking….

Boy that is a great buck Fireball!

No deer this past weekend for the opener but did manage to thump a couple big uglies. 57 F in .300

Thank you sir. Yeah, that 99F in 300 Savage may just be the best deer rifle of all time IMO. Looks like it works on pigs too.

Bumping this back up. Surely many still actually hunt with the 99's and not just collect them. Post up the hunting pics boys!

Not a 99

A 220 with accu trigger!

170 yards

Skol

I got my 99DE sighted in. Hopefully with some time off for thanksgiving I’ll be able to post a pic with it.

Got the 308 99F ready but hunting with the 35 rem Marlin I got for my 60 b-day from my son have not got one with it yet. Only two guns I deer hunt with.

Some nice pics

First trip to WV was OK. Savage's took 50 percent. My friends son took the first of two bucks. Said he didn't have time to look them over, so he took the one that presented the best shot. He's shooting some star wars gun in 6.5 Creed, with thumb hole pistol grip, bipod, 23X scope, and a can. The second deer ran right past my cousin's nephew and he dropped it with my uncles 1959 F in 308.In the last ten years my county has had a handful of CWD deer and we have to butcher them before taking across county lines. It was calling for freezing rain all day Tuesday, so they butchered both deer while I was still on stand.

I tried something new this year, hunted from a pop up deer stand. We put it up Friday about noon, so it sat till Monday. At 8:08 a doe came up the hill, and the second her eye's crested it, she froze. All I could see was the white patch under her chin, black nose, and ears flipping around like radar. I tried to lift my rifle once and she started stamping and blowing. At 8:19 some one on another property shot and she took off. Saw two more doe on the neighbors and that was it for me. I'm heading back up tomorrow. Still using The 1981 250 Saddle Gun I got from John. I have a doe tag, but, I'm holding out till the last minute to get a buck with it.

Here's a pic of Mark's deer, it's a 7 pointer at 105 pounds, and hid Ray Gun. The other deer was a 6 at 120 pounds, don't have pics of that one yet.

Joe I'm surprised you allowed that star War gun in Camp! Lol

Mark is the guy with the Ray Gun, just a few weeks ago he called and told me he had a hand shake deal on two 99's. A 250 and a 308. He said the shop was asking $1500 for the pair and would not separate. He offered $1300 cash, the next morning. They shook on it. Next morning they were gone. So much for a man and his word?

But, you know how that goes. That guy told me he had a local walk in customer that wanted the Malcolm. But the guy had to sell a couple first. I offered him $900 before he told me that. Then he said, "Let me give you my wife, she does the credit cards." Thanks for being the great friend that you are.

Yea. And the guy told me also 900 for the Malcolm also. Then on Monday said. His wife had sold it! At Least it went to a Good Home. Lol

Alright all you Savage Loonies. My Savage 99 trip came full circle this morning. To refresh your memory, here is how it all started.

New to me 1919 .250-3000

Some updates from that December post:

I did find a Redfield 90LT along the way-purchased here from Rick99.



Triple Deuce here was able to help me procure some brass and I was able to develop a load that performed very well in my opinion for the antique sighting system.



Four days into my deer season this year found me on the same ridge I picked up that brass on last year. Lo and behold at about 8:30 this morning a young buck and a doe stumbled within range. I had to blow the snow out of the aperture to be able to see through it. He was quartering toward me, so I held on the point of his shoulder. I heard the hit and he responded as expected, bolting about 25 yards not using that right front leg. He laid down-obviously not feeling well, but his head was up. He was facing away from me. I held at the point where his neck and his back came together. Another hit, and his head was no longer up.



The first shot shattered the shoulder, hit one of the smaller lobes of a lung, and put a startburst shaped hole in his liver. Turns out he wouldn't have taken another step. The second shot hit his spine just back of his shouldner blades. Before I went down for the inevitable work, I took that first piece of brass and laid it under the rock I was leaning against. Maybe someone else will end up going down this wonderful rabbit hole I entered last year.

I maybe was a little harsh on hunting the 99 without a sling, but I must admit it was really convenient to take it apart and put it in my backpack for the drag out.



What a community this 24 Hr Campfire is. Thanks.

LHS

Too tired and too computer dumb to post pic direct (sorry). Just a Doe I got with the 99F (300sav) i've been hunting with since 1975. In my defense, I only spent 1.5 days in the woods. I had a nice Buck within 100 yards of me at one point, but I couldn't get a shot. I also shot 2 Coyote (recovered one) in that time. Some meat for the freezer. -Tom

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On the board!

Do you see what I see?

3 does.

I see at least 4.. maybe 5?

3 does and it looks like another deer to the right of them.

Deer season was awful up here. We can't shoot does, most of us locals didn't see any deer and if someone did, it was a doe. Last winter was brutal on them.

Looks like 5 deer, a nose and eyes between the trees on the left

I can see 5, maybe 6, and I took the pic. There were 2 bucks with them. My friend said that there is a nice 8 and 6 in the bunch. I'm going to see who is home tomorrow morning.

Good luck Joe!

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Not our best year but we figured it was the curse of Arthur since we left our 99s behind. My son normally carries his great-grandfathers 250 but elected to take his 125 anniversary for its maiden outing. Took this chubby at a pretty good poke.

A little assist.

Thanks Lightfoot - it takes me forever to figure out posting pix here

Nicely done

Where did you find snow in Va?

That's on our farm in Erie Co., PA

Three right off, start looking at horizontal back lines, I'd say five, might be six as Joe posted counting one way to the left middle between the trees. Saw a bunch like that not long ago in large sapling grove, was more there once ya got studying back lines and face outlines. Tricky critters.

big cow elk zilch, puny 308 EG one. Actually it's the 5th elk I've gotten with this rifle.
We got after her and another cow. The other one jumped a fence at full tilt, did an a-- over tea kettle, sent snow flying everywhere, jumped up after a couple seconds and took off.
The one I shot had run along parallel to the fence to the right side of the road. I jumped out of the Ranger, she turned towards the fence about 150 yards away still running fast, I led her a little, squeezed the trigger, she humped up, ran about 40 yards, started staggering, feel over, she was in her death throes when we got to her.
The bullet entered behind the left shoulder, went through a rib, clobbered the heart and lungs, went through a rib on the right side and exited with a tiny hole in the skin. The bullet must have been just about spent. It was a Nosler 150 grain Partition. Don't need no magnum for elk, or buffalo.
99EG and operator with dead elk.

something went weird with my computer. Here is the first pic.

can't post any more pics. They are in the image gallery.

got it going again I think. I hadn't hunted this area before. Mike Long took Alan Lane and I out even though their licenses had expired. Thanks guys, can't hunt alone anymore.
Here is a pic of Mike, the EG, me and the elk loaded on the Ranger.

Alan Lane

bullet entered on the left side

tore up the heart and lungs

and exited on the right side

The naked elk

Atta baby!!
Persistence and patience.
And a Savage rifle!

Good job! Lots of work getting that in, but so very worth it.

Congratulations!

Nicely done

A lot a good eating. Well done.

I was really lucky. The weather has caused elk hunting to be poor this year. We had a wet spring and summer which provided plenty of feed up high where they go in the Summer. Then it snowed very little in the fall. Heavy snow in Oct and Nov will normally push them down during hunting season. They could still get to plenty of food up high and didn't come down like they usually do.
We only saw nine elk Saturday. Seven were bulls including some nice ones. Bull season ended Oct 31 so they were off limits. The two cows were pretty elusive. We saw them first thing in the morning but couldn't find them when we tried to close in on them. We saw them again about one PM and were able to get close. I don't usually take running shots but Sat was the next to the last day we could hunt on public land so I took the shot figuring I wouldn't get another shot before season ended. That heart shot couldn't have been any better. Pure luck. I've never killed an elk in mid day either.
I forgot my 35 mm camera. Alan Lane took the pics.
Judging by her teeth she was 2 1/2 years old. Lotsa meat and really tasty.

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Great shot and great story. Thx for sharing and enjoy the eats!

closeup of the 99EG 308 with Weaver KV scope. The scope is about the same period as the rifle.

the elk's ivories. they don't show much wear she was probably 2 1/2 years old. she will be real good eating. My wife will have ear rings made out of the ivories.