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xausa
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Re: 1925 Savage 1899 (takedown) .250-3000 caliber
31/01/10 08:20 AM

You need to know that the Model 99 take-down version was notoriously inaccurate. To quote Col. Towsend Whelen "the Dean of American Riflemen", "This rifle (a Model 99) was given to me, probably about 1915, by Pascal de Angeles, then the sales manager of Savage. It was originally a takedown barrel, and would not shoot worth a hill of beans. I finally sent it to Niedner and had him fit a .250-3000 barrel with a 10-inch twist, screwed in solid, had Griffin & Howe restock it and fitted it with a Belding & Mull scope....I experimented with it with a number of loads, and it was the first rifle I ever shot which I got a number of minute of angle groups. I mean 10-shot groups, for that was the only kind of groups we shot in those days."

In his book "The American Rifle" written in 1920, Col.(then Maj.) Whelen refers to the Model 99, "The rifle is made in both solid frame and take-down styles, the former being always preferable on account of its much better accuracy."

I have a Model 99 takedown in .22 Savage High Power, which had already been converted to a fixed barrel before I bought it. While not perhaps shooting "like a house afire", it does group respectably and has accounted for its share of white tail deer.

A take-down Model 99 is not a hopeless case, but it does need some attention to realize its full potential.

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1925 Savage 1899 (takedown) .250-3000 caliber	gpsb	31/01/10 06:44 AM
Re: 1925 Savage 1899 (takedown) .250-3000 caliber	taw1126	02/02/10 04:04 PM
Re: 1925 Savage 1899 (takedown) .250-3000 caliber	xausa	02/02/10 04:34 PM
Re: 1925 Savage 1899 (takedown) .250-3000 caliber	kamilaroi	02/02/10 09:20 PM
Re: 1925 Savage 1899 (takedown) .250-3000 caliber	gpsb	04/02/10 07:39 AM
Re: 1925 Savage 1899 (takedown) .250-3000 caliber	xausa	31/01/10 08:20 AM
Re: 1925 Savage 1899 (takedown) .250-3000 caliber	9.3x57	31/01/10 12:58 PM
Re: 1925 Savage 1899 (takedown) .250-3000 caliber	rigbymauser	31/01/10 07:11 PM
Re: 1925 Savage 1899 (takedown) .250-3000 caliber	kamilaroi	31/01/10 09:16 PM

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