Added a Savage 99A 375 Winchester

[ollogger]

Last week I picked up a nice one- here is my new Savage 99A 375 Winchester, I put a scope on it and been shooting it and sure like its dead eye!

[Blaine]

Perfect!

[.45colt]

Now don't tell us You traded the 250-3000 for it........if You do I'll cry all night.......................................... .

[ollogger]

Now don't tell us You traded the 250-3000 for it........if You do I'll cry all night.......................................... .

No I didn't do that, but maybe I should have posted all my 99s together, I have shot the 250
with 75 & 90 gr. bullets & its a keeper, thanks again for your help on the 250!!

[Ben_Rumson]

Congrats... SWeeet! I bought one of those a couple of years ago on GB but had to send it back because the barrel had a bulge the seller claimed he didn't notice Been watching this 250-3000 but my lust for it is fading as the price climbs ...http://www.gunbroker.com/Auction/ViewIt ... =542563595 Bought one in 30-30 a couple of months ago for $425 that I'm in the process of dolling up..Sure was fun dis assembling it and admiring the pre war all milled workmanship.

[Mainehunter]

Nice grab! I had one few years back shot well with 300 grain cast bullets.

Mainehunter

[Ray]

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[AJMD429]

That is about the perfect hunting levergun....!!!!

[ollogger]

Ben, A 30-30 is on my list, have one but it wont shoot cast bullets
Ray, I think your dead on with your words!!
Doc. your right it seems its moved 5 jumps ahead of my 94 in 375, born in 55 & my eyes are still good but not worth a hoot with most bbl. sights, receiver sights do help a lot & do have a few of them
Mainehunter, have shot it with 3 different cast bullets, 235 - 250 & a old Ideal bout 275 gr. it does not seem to be finicky & well pleased with it, 300 gr bullet would be fun!!


Brad

[Sixgun]

Man! You get all of the neat stuff!

Nice rifle Brad. Guns like that are keepers. It has three great features...lots of condition....super
caliber....and......drum roll please.....a very nice near indestructible scope that looks like 2.5X Weaver.

I just stuck one of those on a 6920 Colt.-------6

[earlmck]

Guns like that are keepers. It has three great features...lots of condition....super
caliber....and......drum roll please.....a very nice near indestructible scope that looks like 2.5X Weaver.

Well, two out of the three: I'm not so sure about the Weaver. Yes it is virtually indestructible but I have two of them and I have to say they look wonderfully vintage but the optics are on the murky side. I just swapped the one I had on my Remington pump for an elderly Leupold M8-4x I found on my LGS consignment shelf and things sure got easier on the old eyes.

That said.... Good grief Brad! That baby looks like it just rolled off the assembly line. Where in the world did you dig up that one? Wow!

[Nath]

Now that has to be a great combination of power and toteability

[gamekeeper]

BEAUTIFUL....

[M. M. Wright]

Lovely. Pristine. And I applaud your choice of mount which looks like the Redfield Jr.

[OldWin]

Wow! Very nice Savage OL.

Yes, I think we'd all like to see a group 99 pic. I've only owned a couple 99's, but they are beautiful rifles and were way ahead of their time.

Good score man!

[missionary5155]

Greetings
Nice rifle in a fine caliber !
A caliber 38 model 99 is on my list to encounter and bring home one day. Cannot think of a better caliber to have handy.
Mike in Peru

[Rube Burrows]

These are not among my favorite looking lever guns but I don't know that I have ever seen one that was so beautiful. What a great looking rifle.

[Griff]

These are not among my favorite looking lever guns but I don't know that I have ever seen one that was so beautiful. What a great looking rifle.

+1. Congrats Brad!

Edited to add: Aye gawd! It just dawned on me... another hunting for components for the 375! In a fit of generosity I gave my last box of Hornady bullets away!!! Thought I had TWO!!! Oh well, I'm sure the recipient appreciates them as much as I have... now, to get the Hornady 220FP back in production!

[Hairtrigger]

Very nice!
Great caliber and hard to find in the 99

[Ray Newman]

Good score! Nice looking rifle – I am partial to the straight stock M99 rifles.

Ray wrote: “The powers that be at Savage say that this gun cannot be reproduced today for less than $5000..... I believe that either Browning or Miroku could build something close to this for around a grand….”

Would be nice to see the M99 back in production, but then we would have people groaning and moaning and urinating that it was not made in the US, it’s not a real Savage 99, at a $1000.00 price it is only for those with deep pockets, etc.

And speaking of reproductions, I would not mind a M99A type in 303 Savage, 30 WCF, or .358 Winchester….

[ollogger]

These are not among my favorite looking lever guns but I don't know that I have ever seen one that was so beautiful. What a great looking rifle.

+1. Congrats Brad!

Edited to add: Aye gawd! It just dawned on me... another hunting for components for the 375! In a fit of generosity I gave my last box of Hornady bullets away!!! Thought I had TWO!!! Oh well, I'm sure the recipient appreciates them as much as I have... now, to get the Hornady 220FP back in production!

Thanks Rube!! It took a great photo, it has a few dings but I will most likely add a few more

Griff, I have a 94 in one, have lots of brass & 3 molds but will take any donations you have!! LOL

[Daisyman]

Very nice!!!! I really didn't think I'd want want of those but that one would be just fine. I just don't see those for sale here in the Midwest.

[ollogger]

For those of you that are interested a FFL dealer here in Wheatland has about 80 99s
for sale on consignment, its the biggest sale of 99s I have ever seen, many in 358-375 & one
in 7mm 08, a few 284s & of course all of the rest, have only looked at a few very close & they were all 80% or better, I may have to go back & look at a 99A in a 250, but after the last 2 99s it will be awhile, the 99 is rare around here so this is a treat to have it in town
so if any body wants a phone number pm me & I will give it to you!!
I do not have a horse in this race other than dealer may give me a break on another one!!

Thanks for all the nice comments!!

Brad

[big bear]

Last week I picked up a nice one- here is my new Savage 99A 375 Winchester, I put a scope on it and been shooting it and sure like its dead eye!

Has the fore end been altered or replaced?

[ollogger]

Big bear, some one messed with the sling stud & lost the white spacer plus managed
to take a small chip out of the wood, its a shooter gun for me & the more I shoot it the more I really
like the gun



Brad

[AJMD429]

Perfect!

Yep. .!

[ollogger]

Didn't want to take away No 7s post on the 99A, maybe If I knew what I was doing on this thing
I could of done it different?

anyways here is its big brother


ollogger

[Old Savage]

There is a beauty.

[tman]

Love the A's. Perhaps the best of the fine 99's. Arguably one of the finest saddle, brush country carbines out there.

[Griff]

Didn't want to take away No 7s post on the 99A, maybe If I knew what I was doing on this thing
I could of done it different?

anyways here is its big brother


ollogger

Sometimes it's almost impossible to resist!!??

Love the A's. Perhaps the best of the fine 99's. Arguably one of the finest saddle, brush country carbines out there.

Naw, it comes in at about 10th place... behind almost all of those thin receiver, tube magazine, lever carbines by either Winchester or Marlin. When one is talking about "saddle" guns... Let's not get carried away here...

[EdinCT]

When I was young I looked at 99's in a ho hum light and they were common and reasonable. My Father would just look at a 99A and tell me that's a beautiful rifle maybe someday. Well someday never came ,but has I am older now I really appreciate the 99 and the 99A more so. Seems like I only find them when I am broke.
Congrats!

[tman]

Didn't want to take away No 7s post on the 99A, maybe If I knew what I was doing on this thing
I could of done it different?

anyways here is its big brother


ollogger

Sometimes it's almost impossible to resist!!??

Love the A's. Perhaps the best of the fine 99's. Arguably one of the finest saddle, brush country carbines out there.

Naw, it comes in at about 10th place... behind almost all of those thin receiver, tube magazine, lever carbines by either Winchester or Marlin. When one is talking about "saddle" guns... Let's not get carried away here...

If it is chambered in the .308WCF, it blows away all of the tube-fed levers. It then becomes a 400 yard, saddlegun, brush gun.

[JOHNNY WACKO]

nice wood on that thing.most of them around me have the wood all beat up for some reason.

[Old Savage]

Ken Waters did a report i his book Pet Loafs on this rifle and cartridge.His most accurate load was a 220 Hornady with 38.0 grs H4895 for 1866 fps.

[Pitchy]

Nice looking rifle Ollogger.

[3leggedturtle]

Well that settles it, after I visit Pitchy in May, I'll be there in June, to let u out shoot me with it. Course I'll bring u some brass for it.. 3leg/Todd

[3leggedturtle]

Oh n the mold Sixgun is giving for a Xmas gift is yours too!

[ollogger]

3 legg you bring the brass & that mold & ill supply the ammo some guns & Miss Boots cooking
cant wait for June!!


Brad

[3leggedturtle]

3 legg you bring the brass & that mold & ill supply the ammo some guns & Miss Boots cooking
cant wait for June!!



Brad

Oh the simple things that make life good, thanks Brad n Ms!