Hey Folks,
ok I'll start off like I did in my neighborhood gun store yesterday afternoon:
Hi my name is Rick and I shoot too much and can't help myself.... I gotta have this gun.
To which several people, probably experienced in taking steps, replied:
Hi Rick! Welcome we love you and want to help.
I then asked where the coffee and cookies were.
ok so I'm not trying to make fun of any 12 step program or AA or anything... it's helped a few people I know when I thought there may be no helping them. Instead I just tried being funny about my problem of going to the gun shop and having a hard time leaving without something in my hands. Yesterday was no different. I came home with a nice lever gun the Savage 99E in .308. It is in nice shape... really really nice shape but I am a black ugly gun kind of guy and don't know much about these lever guns... it looked nice... it is .308 and has a rotary magazine not a tube... and from what I've read previously it is one of the top deer guns of all time. So now I have the thing and don't know squat about the care and feeding... well I have the feeding bit... I'm a .308 guy but the care is a bit confusing to me... I don't see how it is going to be a simple disassemble and inspect and clean and lube and reassemble type of gun. Any suggestions? I'm thinking it will be a safe queen for the most part and take it out a few times a year to sight in or to take on a walk in the forest on a sunny November day (synth stock Browning A-bolt for less sunny days) Anyway, it looked lonely and scared up there on the rack in there among all the other newer guns and so I took it home and want to make it feel the love now. I ran the numbers and came back with a manufacture date of 1949! And lastly, just so you all know that I am willing to pay the consequences, I made sure to have a way of punishing myself for my misdeeds in buying yet another firearm.... I bought a box of 300 gr .454 Casull and will go to the range tomorrow with last month's Gun of the Month, a Ruger Alaskan, and take my punishment! And it is a punishing little monster. I'll tell you about the first time taking it to the range some time if you're interested.
ok so back to the original intent of this post. Is there a Savage 99E enthusiast here who can give me information on the newest addition to my toy chest?
Thanks in advance
Rick in NH
ok I'll start off like I did in my neighborhood gun store yesterday afternoon:
Hi my name is Rick and I shoot too much and can't help myself.... I gotta have this gun.
To which several people, probably experienced in taking steps, replied:
Hi Rick! Welcome we love you and want to help.
I then asked where the coffee and cookies were.
ok so I'm not trying to make fun of any 12 step program or AA or anything... it's helped a few people I know when I thought there may be no helping them. Instead I just tried being funny about my problem of going to the gun shop and having a hard time leaving without something in my hands. Yesterday was no different. I came home with a nice lever gun the Savage 99E in .308. It is in nice shape... really really nice shape but I am a black ugly gun kind of guy and don't know much about these lever guns... it looked nice... it is .308 and has a rotary magazine not a tube... and from what I've read previously it is one of the top deer guns of all time. So now I have the thing and don't know squat about the care and feeding... well I have the feeding bit... I'm a .308 guy but the care is a bit confusing to me... I don't see how it is going to be a simple disassemble and inspect and clean and lube and reassemble type of gun. Any suggestions? I'm thinking it will be a safe queen for the most part and take it out a few times a year to sight in or to take on a walk in the forest on a sunny November day (synth stock Browning A-bolt for less sunny days) Anyway, it looked lonely and scared up there on the rack in there among all the other newer guns and so I took it home and want to make it feel the love now. I ran the numbers and came back with a manufacture date of 1949! And lastly, just so you all know that I am willing to pay the consequences, I made sure to have a way of punishing myself for my misdeeds in buying yet another firearm.... I bought a box of 300 gr .454 Casull and will go to the range tomorrow with last month's Gun of the Month, a Ruger Alaskan, and take my punishment! And it is a punishing little monster. I'll tell you about the first time taking it to the range some time if you're interested.
ok so back to the original intent of this post. Is there a Savage 99E enthusiast here who can give me information on the newest addition to my toy chest?
Thanks in advance
Rick in NH
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