The things you find in the gun room... - 01/28/20
Well as luck would have it, I've been sidelined for the last few days with this miserable stomach bug that is going around. Today being day four with it, I decided to drag my sorry A$$ down to the gun room and do some rooting around. I found a couple things that I totally forgot I had. First up, the Savage Super Sporter in 300 Savage wearing a nice old Weaver V-7 atop it. I picked this up a few winters ago and "tucked it away" like so many others. It was like I bought it all over again. 
. . Secondly, and just as exciting to me, I started going through some gun boxes that my Uncle had been storing for years for my dad when he first opened his gun shop. Long story short, I come from a long line of NH deer hunters who have used, and continue to use the venerable Savage 99 as their go to firearm for taking such quarry. In December of 1971, My grandmother bought for me for my 2nd Birthday, a brand new Savage 99A in 250-3000. My Grandmother was quite an outdoors person, handy with a fly rod, and a great deer and bear hunter herself. Being left-handed, she had an affinity for the tang safety Savage 99A. Well today, I put my hands on the original cardboard box complete with the Savage emblem and serial number on said box. I have also the original owners manual tucked away with my other firearms manuals. I haven't been this excited about a cardboard box since 1977, when we got a new stove for the house, and dad turned the box it came in, into a makeshift indoor fort for my sister and me. Simple things please simple minds...
Rich
. . Secondly, and just as exciting to me, I started going through some gun boxes that my Uncle had been storing for years for my dad when he first opened his gun shop. Long story short, I come from a long line of NH deer hunters who have used, and continue to use the venerable Savage 99 as their go to firearm for taking such quarry. In December of 1971, My grandmother bought for me for my 2nd Birthday, a brand new Savage 99A in 250-3000. My Grandmother was quite an outdoors person, handy with a fly rod, and a great deer and bear hunter herself. Being left-handed, she had an affinity for the tang safety Savage 99A. Well today, I put my hands on the original cardboard box complete with the Savage emblem and serial number on said box. I have also the original owners manual tucked away with my other firearms manuals. I haven't been this excited about a cardboard box since 1977, when we got a new stove for the house, and dad turned the box it came in, into a makeshift indoor fort for my sister and me. Simple things please simple minds...Rich
every now and then i find something i misplaced ! 