I just heard from my buddy back in Pennsylvania. The 99 will likely get here Thursday. The shells will follow with my 80's Italian LH Flintlock .50 a few days later (clearing my stockpile of guns back there, people keep dying on me). I've never owned a sub-caliber rifle before (all 30s, .30-3O [the dirty-dirty]. .308, .30-06. .300 Weatherby) so this should be interesting. I did find some Speer 87-grain Hot-Cors at Midway that are on their way as well. Fun thing to contemplate, way better than funerals and flooded grouse camps. I've looked into the market for these guns a little further and like most of the decent weapons from the post-war (WWII) years, they have climbed in value significantly (they used-to be fairly common and quite inexpensive where I grew up). The commentary over on the Savage collectors site is that nobody owns just one. I guess we'll see...
Edit: I guess I did own a another Savage before (bolt gun, Model 340) and in .22 Hornet. I'd forgotten that one.
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