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Saxon Pig
That 99 with the straight grip and long barrel is indeed a looker, very nice indeed. A few years back, I was in an old time country hardware store, and they had a lot of old ammo there, many boxes marked "25Cents each", that sort of thing. At one time they apparently had sold cartridges one at a time. I'd not seen that since I was a kid. Lots of partial boxes and of course I had to sift through them. One partial box, Marked 303 British, actually had 303 Savage ctgs in it, and I bought them, having never seen 303 Savages before.
Regards the Win M88 v. Savage 99. Savage HAD to keep making the 99, as it was their flagship rifle. I'd suggest the 110 bolt was simply an economical attempt to catch up with the growing boon of bolt rifles as the lever made its last gasp with American hunters caught up with magnum fever and gilt edge accuracy (sound familiar?). Take away the 99, and the plain jane 110 could not compete with the Rem 700 and even the cheapend Win 70. And in the end, that is exactly what happened.....till Savage came back , thinned its product line, and capitalized on the 110's strengths.
I don't own a 99, still looking, its on the list. But the Win 88 had some engineering advantages. The rotary bolt, lug locked like a bolt rifle. The one piece stock, though they bedded the barrel a bit oddly with the forwarded mounted stud (guess the M70's did the same). Winchester even came up with the .284 as a new high performance ctg. We all know how that worked out too. But issue was not a "bent nail" (bad design). The issue was a changing perception by the hunting/shooting community, and the fact that a bunch more 99's already produced kept the Savage rifle on the common list.
Winchester saw the writing on the wall, and nixed its rifle first.
Saxon Pig
That 99 with the straight grip and long barrel is indeed a looker, very nice indeed. A few years back, I was in an old time country hardware store, and they had a lot of old ammo there, many boxes marked "25Cents each", that sort of thing. At one time they apparently had sold cartridges one at a time. I'd not seen that since I was a kid. Lots of partial boxes and of course I had to sift through them. One partial box, Marked 303 British, actually had 303 Savage ctgs in it, and I bought them, having never seen 303 Savages before.
Regards the Win M88 v. Savage 99. Savage HAD to keep making the 99, as it was their flagship rifle. I'd suggest the 110 bolt was simply an economical attempt to catch up with the growing boon of bolt rifles as the lever made its last gasp with American hunters caught up with magnum fever and gilt edge accuracy (sound familiar?). Take away the 99, and the plain jane 110 could not compete with the Rem 700 and even the cheapend Win 70. And in the end, that is exactly what happened.....till Savage came back , thinned its product line, and capitalized on the 110's strengths.
I don't own a 99, still looking, its on the list. But the Win 88 had some engineering advantages. The rotary bolt, lug locked like a bolt rifle. The one piece stock, though they bedded the barrel a bit oddly with the forwarded mounted stud (guess the M70's did the same). Winchester even came up with the .284 as a new high performance ctg. We all know how that worked out too. But issue was not a "bent nail" (bad design). The issue was a changing perception by the hunting/shooting community, and the fact that a bunch more 99's already produced kept the Savage rifle on the common list.
Winchester saw the writing on the wall, and nixed its rifle first.
