I got a model 99 in 300 savage from my grandfather when I was 10. I'm 71 now. The gun was manufactured in 1927. It had not been shot in
over 60 years and just stayed in the back of my closet. I could not find any ammo for it and so I put a request to buy some here on THF. Two different
people gave me a box. There are such great people on this forum. I took it out Easter Sunday afternoon and shot it for the first time. 1", 3 shot group at 65 yards, one inch high.
That's the distance to my feeder. A grandson of a friend of mine was out there and I said lets go hog hunting. We sat on the ground with our backs
to some pine trees. I gave him the gun to use and at 4:30 about 10 hogs came in. He shot two of them with the lever action savage.
I could not have been happier for him and for how my grandfathers rifle still shoots.