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Clint in Josey Wales giving the Redleggers a "Missouri boat ride" was pretty good too.

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I love the 99s as well as the Marlins and Winchesters. I have to say that a 99 with a 24" barrel and pistol grip is one of the best handling rifles I know of. You have to handle one to understand. The thing I don't like about the 99s is the somewhat awkward and sometimes noisy safety and the te...

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1950s Savage 99F in 300 Savage is one of my favorite rifles. They are light, handy, accurate, powerful enough for most anything I hunt and just plain cool. Congratulations on your find.

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Black walnut is pretty common in Tennessee as well. My grandfather had a nice grove that he promised to my father. He got alzheimers and sold them to a neighbor for a song.

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Back in the early 90s I was working as a fly-fishing guide in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. I was taking two fishermen a couple of miles down a trail to one of my honey holes. At one point the trail was about 100 ft about the stream and running parallel to it. I happened to glance down on...

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Remington 722 and 721 rifles are great old rifles. They usually have a much better trigger than the unmodified newer 700s. The biggest downside of them to me is that they have a greater stock drop than the 700s. You have to get your scope mounted nice and low on those 722 and 721s to get a good sigh...

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I hate to see you go Mike. I have always considered you one of the true gentleman of this forum as demonstrated by your thoughful and level headed posts. I will miss you and hope that you will reconsider in time.

Neal B

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There are two distinctly different post war Savage 99 250s. The ones made until 1960 have a lever safety and checkered pistol grip stocks. Whether they be 99EG or F they will have a 1 in 14" twist which will not usually stabalize the heavier 25 cal bullets very well. The later ones made in the ...

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what a b--------- . She's an attractive girl, but beneath all that beats a heart of stupidity. If she is from the UK, i can almost understand the Ugly American bashing, but if she's from here -- she has no excuse. I sentence her to 2 years hard labor in my bedroo----- er..... tomato garden Sadly, s...

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Frankly, I would stay away from the current manufacture Lyman sights. I have had several that were wobbly. They have really let the quality slip in recent years. The Williams is a rock solid sight, but I don't care for the sharp corners on the new Williams sights either. I like the older Williams or...

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If you need 2X scope , you should have been shooting iron sight so anything under 4X is a waste . If you can't hit a deer at 400 yds , a squirrel at 100 yds and a rabbit at 200 yds with a 4X scope adding a 24X won't make you a better shooter . Only target , varmint and over 400 yds hunting need mor...

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I'd choose the VX-II 2-7 x 28 Ultralight. It's the lowest power/largest objective/shortest/lightest scope I see on their website. I have the older Vari-X compact AO in 2-7x28 and it gives good low-light visibility. I can't see well in low light through the 20 mm objectives. +1 This is really an und...

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well,It's not just UPS. My 1895ss arrived today via USPS priority mail and the butt stock is broken right by the lever on the left side. I took out the stock screw when I got home and the stock is separated in 2 pieces. :cry: I guess I will call the Marlin parts dept. in the AM and get a new one. A...

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I own the Cabelas traditional Hawken in 54 cal and my brother shoots the Lyman Great Plains rifle in 54 cal as well. They are both plenty accurate with patched round balls. The Lyman has a little better fit and finish, but a more sharply curved and more punishing crescent butt plate. Either will ser...

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The rifle pictured was to be my rifle :( . I saw the box and packing and stormspotter did a nice job. The box did not appear to be damaged either. Their denial of his claim in despicable. This is the third rifle in four years that UPS has trashed. This is out of about a dozen rifles I have received ...

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Browning no longer made vs Uberti still being made. I would chose the Browning. I actually used to own one of the Browning 53 rifles. It was so slick and the wood was gorgeous. Problem was that it was too good looking and almost never left the safe.

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Wow! That is a nice looking 1895. The 39 is not bad either.

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That is a fine looking piece of walnut on that 30-30 Ken. That rifle will turn head's I am betting.

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Is there a problem finding a Savage 99? Seems like every show I go to has literally a dozen or two! I'd rather own one of the old ones, than a new one anyway. Some of us were hoping for a new one in 7mm-08 or 358 etc. Those are very hard to impossible to find in the existing 99s. There was a pretty...

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Hi, Just bought a Marlin 336 straight stock 30-30. I have only seen photo's of it so far, should have it by the end of next week. Just a question for you Marlin Men out there. What does the MCD stand for?? Does it stand for anything at all or is it just a model number Marlin made up? Serial number ...

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Cool pics, reminds me of sitting my granddad's lap steering his old John Deer. Those are some of my best memories. What I would give to have some photos like that.

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Problem solved. The sight is going to a new home atop a Winchester 94 that it was designed for.

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PM back at you.

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Thanks Joe, that is sort of what I was thinking. Since I just found a nice old Williams FP as well, I may end up selling the old Lyman. I don't have any Winchesters sitting around in need of a sight at the moment.

Thanks,
Neal

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I found a nice old, all steel Lyman 66A receiver sight. I know it is designated for a Winchester 1894. Will it work for an older Marlin 336 or 1895? I know the screw hole spacing is identical between the two and it can be mounted on a Marlin, but will it work as well as the 66LA designed for the Mar...

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After seeing the nice packaging job Leonard did on the rifle, I will never use UPS again for anything, ever. There is really no excuse for this sort of thing. It is not like they are rough with boxes because they are so fast. It always takes UPS longer to get a rifle from point a to point b than it ...

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They are cool little rifles. The ammo is not common and is expensive. I had one once and about a box of ammo. I had my fun burning through the ammo and then realized that it would cost me a fortune to shoot it often. I sold it a week later. It always seemed like a very heavy gun for a carbine anyway.

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Neat old photo. I am betting it is turn of the century give or take a few years.

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Do any of you guys cant the scopes you mount on leverguns? I have found that no matter how low I mount the scope on my Marlin and Savage 99 rifles that I still must cant them to the right to get a good sight picture. When I go to the pains to use a scope leveler, the result is very uncomfortable, an...

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I have owned a couple over the years and they are about the best carrying centerifle rifle that I know of. Mine were decently accurate, but the triggers left a lot to be desired. Still for $150, that is a steal. Good catch.

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Here's a picture of the subject rifle. http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a296/pisgah/100_0030.jpg I'm 100% convinced the pad is not original. But, as I'd hate to give up the recoil-dampening effect, I think my first step if I buy this will be to procure a slightly thinner Sorbathane pad, as the cur...

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Your 99A rifle was made in the 1970s. I have owned them in 250, 300 and 308. The 308 did kick noticeably harder than the 300 for some reason. They are neat rifles in a great configuration, but lack some of the attention to detail found on the older, premil rifles. Still they are wonderful hunting ri...

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Dealing with Stormspotter was the only positve aspect of this whole mess. He was easy to deal with and sent my refund out immediately after finding out about the damage. I will be even more ticked at UPS if they do not take care of him.

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OK don't flame if I am overly simplistic about this, make UPS buy a new stock and repair what other damage there is and go on? Wish it were that simple. It could take months or years to find a replacement B-92 buttstock and this one was exceptionally well figured. Even if I could find a replacement...

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I had a Lyman receiver sight ready to go for my B-92 as well. These pics are about to make my cry

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I can tell you they are plenty hard to find. I had one a couple of years ago and sold it. It took me another year to find one and what did UPS do but destroy it. I am thinking it could be at least another year before I find another one.

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I had thought about keeping it and trying to replace the buttstock. Unfortunately, extra B-92 buttstocks are hard to find and this one have extremely nice figure and matched the foreend perfectly. The odds of finding a matching buttstock appeared to be remote in my opinion.

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J. Miller. I did not mean to disparage anyone who works for UPS. I am sure most of them are honest, hard working folks just doing the job the way they are instructed. It is obviously the system that UPS has in place that is not conducive to getting packages from point A to point B in one piece. I do...

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I always remove the stock of leverguns as well and bubblewrap the two pieces seperately. It would almost take a deliberate act to damage one packaged this way.

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The one rifle that I ever personally shipped via USP was a Ruger #1A 30-06. I packed it in a hard plastic case inside a cardboard box. When it was received, the barrel was sticking out of the end of the box and the front sight was warped. I only shipped via the USPS since.

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Well, this makes the third time in four years I have lost a rifle to the goons at UPS. I went to pick up my highly anticipated Browning B-92 357 Mag purchased from a forum member here. The stock was completely broken off and chips of wood were missing. It looked to have been packed very securely, so...

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Call it whatever you like, but this type of behaviour is predatory and unscrupulous. Just because you can do something does not mean you should.

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I have done the Dutch Oven thing and the ultralight backpacking canister stove thing and just about everything in between. Now that I have three kids of my own and a nephew that I take camping often, I mostly use my fold out stove with cast iron burners. It runs off of a standard propane tank. It is...

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Thankfully, I did buy a nice supply of large rifle and pistol primers over a year ago. Guess I am trying to get in on reloading for the 357/38 at a bad time. I will find some primers eventually. I have a couple of local shops that will call me when they get a shipment in. It just might take a few we...

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Modoc Ed, Sorry, I did not mean to bite your head off. I had my back up over the gouging and was not in the mood to be trifled with. I thought you were trying to say I was full of beans. Please accept my apology if you intended otherwise.

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They did in fact have Winchester small pistol standard and magnum primers as of 1 hour ago. You have to ask for someone in reloading. The girls at the front desk do not know. I do not appreciate the implication.

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Feel free to call them. They will limit you to 1000 and will not ship to you. $60/1000 is not reasonable and is gouging when their cost to buy them has not gone up anywhere near that much. I did not load for any cartridge that uses small pistol primers until recently so I did not have any of them ho...

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Since I was down to about 300 small pistol primers I have been calling around for a couple of weeks trying to locate some. I finally found some up in Benton, TN where most of my family lives. The name of the store is Benton Shooter's Supply. They informed me that they did have Winchester small pisto...

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Thanks for the info guys. I learned the hard way about the crud that builds up in a 357 using 38 cases. The first Marlin 1894C I owned was fed a steady diet of 38s before I ever fired the first 357 out of it. I had a lot of trouble ejecting spent cases. It took some serious elbow grease to get the g...

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The same goes for Leonard. He is a first rate guy and a pleasure to deal with.

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