New 99 Savage

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How about it, Savage went through some rough times in the 80's but now seem pretty darn healthy. Anyone think it's time for them to try a new 99?
 
Well here's mine. The expert here on Savage 99's is Mike Irwin and perhaps he will see this and comment. From what I remember the 99 tooling was eventually sent to Italy with the idea of manufacturing and fitting the actions there. The actions would then be shipped back for installing the barrel and stock. Then I think the tooling was destroyed in a fire? In any case, Savage would have to completely re-tool from scratch if the 99 was to return.

I do have extraction problems with my 99 C, .308 win, with max loads, but backing off about 100 ft/sec solves that problem. If Savage started making 99's again, there would be room at my house for another one. 7mm-08, .260 rem, or 6.5 creedmoor would be wonderful chamberings for it.
 

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I have always wanted one. Never found one I considered to be priced anywhere close to "right." I am sure if they did bring it back, they would price it in line with the BLR.
 
You'd think with CNC machining that the manufacturer of a new 99 may possibly be viable? But I got a bad case of sticker shock the other day in Wally World, $700.00+ for a 700BDL,:eek: maybe I've not been paying enough attention to new gun prices.
 
@Guv: Your Wal-Mart price doesn't sound that bad. In august I was looking for a .30-06 and the BDL at my local Wal-Mart was 799 $. I wound up buying a CZ 550 for 860$ (and sales tax was 10% on top of that). For a new rifle, it seems like the street price for the higher "trim level" guns, starts at 800$ and goes up from there.

To get back on topic, I agree with you and would think that a new savage 99 could be produced for 1200 - 1400 $ MSRP. Street prices would be a little less and that could make a new 99 viable. But who knows. I haven't run the production cost numbers or looked a a marketing study.
 
While the Savage99 is my favorite woods rifle I don't see a significant demand for new ones. True the prices on some of the old ones is up now that they are a item with some.

What's hot in rifles is the AR's. I don't want an AR either however that's whats selling and what I see at the range these days.

However the marketing of gun gear seems to be the idea that even old is 'new'.

Thus old obsolete cartridges and guns are reintroduced to sell some more product.

Good luck to them. The 99 is a great rifle. They are control round feed! CRF.
 
I'm truly afraid that we've seen the last of the 99s.

They were for awhile manufactured in, I believe, Spain, but even being made there, and only the clip-fed model, they were still very expensive to make, and they just didn't sell that well.

Savage ended up going through some seriously tough financial times around then, and the gun was dropped from production.

I don't know about a fire.

Even with modern CNC machinery the 99 is a complex gun to make. If it were brought back in rotary magazine form, I can't even imagine how much it would cost.
 
May not cost as much as you think. The rotor and other intricate parts could be produced with powdered metal. I just doubt that the return would justify starting up a line to manufacture them. There are still plenty around, but like military rifles they are hoarded by a few. I have seven or eight yet (Could not bring myself to auction them) and know other guys with a lot more than I have.
 
True, and the receiver could also be investment cast and fininshed. There are ways to bring the cost down, but to be quite honest, I'm not really sure I'd be interested in such a gun.

Sure, it would be a Model 99, but it woudln't be. It would be like the Ford Thunderbird that came out some years ago. Sure it's a sporty convertible like the original.... But it's nothnig like the original at all.

I'm still looking for a good shooter in either .38-55 or .30-30.
 
True, and the receiver could also be investment cast and fininshed. There are ways to bring the cost down, but to be quite honest, I'm not really sure I'd be interested in such a gun.
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I agree Mike, I would bet they would not feel quite the same.
I would think the cast receiver may have to be a little thicker.

I have two 99's, a 300 Savage and a light weight take down model 250-3000, love them both.

To me the feel and balance of these rifles is great and they have a natural swing.
I've downed a lot of Missouri deer with a previous 300 Savage 99, and most of them were running shots.

Best Regards
Bob Hunter
www.huntercustoms.com
 
@Bobhunter: I see you live in northwest missouri. I lived in central missouri during the early to mid 60's and every year a local gas station raffled off a savage 99. You got one raffle ticket for every 10 gallons of gas. Those days are gone forever.

In those days only the rich owned a savage 99. The rest of us poor people used 30-30's or an occasional .35 remington.
 
me, you, but.........

Yeah, I'd think about buying one, I've always wanted one of the straight gripped, short barreled models in 250 or .243, maybe 30-30.

But...I don't think the overall demand is there, and I doubt they'd sell all that well. Look at the demise of the '94, Marlin seems struggling, the big Winchester lever repros are not all that popular either.

Just keep shopping for a used one.
 
We all wish that someone would "bring back" this or that gun, but in the real world the reason most of the "classics" were discontinued was because they didn't sell, and there is no reason to think most of them would sell any better a second time around.

Jim
 
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