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January 20, 2023
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Ridge, The Savage 99EG is the sleekest and best looking American centerfire repeater ever devised. I have a high condition 1954 .300 specimen in transit.
The safety is manageable but not as handy as the gunsmith-installed tang safeties that were available for these hammerless guns.
A handloaded 300 Savage 180 grain Nosler Partition , well-placed, is good for anything up to a Brontosaurus, and a big one at that.
Bill
- Bill
WACA # 65205; life member, NRA; member, TGCA; member, TSRA; amateur preservationist
"I have seen wicked men and fools, a great many of both, and I believe they both get paid in the end, but the fools first." -- David Balfour, narrator and protagonist of the novel, Kidnapped, by Robert Louis Stevenson.
January 20, 2023
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Ridge, I concur. Happily, because I like cast lead and rough bores don’t, the line of re-issued Winchester 73 models manufactured by Miroku for Browning are like the Browning labeled 1886, 1895, and 1892 guns made by Miroku from 1986 to about 1991, in two respects. First, they don’t have any safety other than the original half-cock position of the hammer. Second, the hammer doesn’t rebound. ( Although rebounding hammers bother some folks more than me.)
Bottom line, my Model 73 Sporting Rifle 44 WCF and a carbine 357/38 are mechanically, cosmetically, and functionally identical to the original 3rd model 1873. And will shoot cast lead all day without a build-up.
While we of the Southland aren’t troubled by over-intrusive State government, if anyone else should need a non-evil-appearing Urban Assault Rifle that can do business as required, my Model 73 will shuck and shoot twelve high velocity +P 38 Special 150 grain semi-wadcutters from its 20″ barrel at well over 1200 fs mv. Additional rounds can be fed into the gate without interfering with readiness. Post-engagement photo ops will not offend an average Grand Jury.
Bill
- Bill
WACA # 65205; life member, NRA; member, TGCA; member, TSRA; amateur preservationist
"I have seen wicked men and fools, a great many of both, and I believe they both get paid in the end, but the fools first." -- David Balfour, narrator and protagonist of the novel, Kidnapped, by Robert Louis Stevenson.
April 3, 2018
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Well-said, Bill:
The only “black rifle” I own is a pre-63 Winchester Model 70 in 270 WCF with a black Mc Millan stock. It also came with a 22 in Shilen barrel and is now my dedicated mountain rifle for sheep, antelope in bad weather, or mountain grizzlies.
I am fond of early Model 70s, though the 1886 and pre-war Model 71s occupy much secure space in my arms room. I like Model 70s from 270 WCF through 338-06, 35 Whelen as customs up to 338 WM to 375 H&H.
Make preparations in advance. T. Roosevelt was right all along, and carried 1886 rifles like Ben Lilly, but in a different caliber. He probably also paid a tad more for his half-magazine special order 86 than Lilly did for his full magazine rifle in 33 WCF. But Lilly killed bears in the US and Mexico with his 33 WCF 1886, so it must have been effective. I trim 210 Nosler Partition bullets for mine. They work on deer and bear.
Keep your nose into the wind, and eyes along the skyline.
Ridge
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