Thread: .22high power Savage

Originally Posted by Jhon

Geeze its not often you hear the 99 called "agricultural". On the contrary, they seem to get more bouquets if not reverence than brick bats. Depends what your fancy is I guess...

I always found them ugly and ungainly looking. Of course I am shallow, silly as a horse, and swayed by appearances. I had use of one in .308 for a while, and the rear lock up was sort of clunky to me. I would like to have one of the old ones Pre WW1 style with the graceful schnabel, set up for open sights. I actually had some spare money a couple of weeks ago and was in teh local gunshop and they had another Savage99 in .308 there, in top condition. I thought about it. And then I thought that thing is still as ugly as before. One of the late versions with the dumb cheap stock on it.