I’ve always enjoyed the 300 sav, in the 99. Harvested a few deer with it also. Remember getting a 8 point muley at 60 yards, and getting a doe whitetail at 125 yards, shooting offhand and with a redfield rear peep sight.

Good to see information on these fine rifles. Absolutely my favorite saddle gun.

I have the same model, made in 1937. Mine was on the used gun rack about 30 years ago, a re-blue but well done. It has a slight crack at the end of the tang, but the wood is not oil soaked at all - just a typical Savage hand fit that was a bit on the tight side. With the origianl open sights it is almost boringly accurate. I find the re-loads I use are no trouble at all as far as reliable accuracy goes. The .300 cartridge is just that way for some reason. These days I tape a peep sight onto the lens of my glasses to see better, and it really helps. It's at the prescription focal point at all times, no matter what minor variations when I hold. I never could get the Marbles tang sight to line up right, so I went back to electrical tape with a clean punch hole of 1/16". I will never part with this rifle until they close the lid.

I got a 99 in 300 sav as a early Christmas present that my grandpa gave me right 2 weeks before hunting reason when I was 17. And he gave my brother a Remington 7600 in 30-06. It took a while for me to get ammo for it but I got 3 boxes of 150 grain Winchester super X. Got it cleaned up and sighted in before rifle season and got a stud of a 9 pointer with it on opening day. Left on hell of a blood trail which was very suprising. He kicked like a mule getting hit by that 300 savage and ran 30 yards before he started tumbling. The past 5 hunting seasons it’s the only gun I’ve touched and I plan on selling my guns to a pawn shop and just sticking to my 99

I've had a couple of different things 99's in 300 Savage 1948 EG and 1955 F. Still have the F. Before pandemic Hornady 300 making 300 Savage SuperFormance. 150 grain SST bullet @2920 fps out of a 24 inch barrel. One flat shooting, hard hitting sucker! Hopefully they will resume making that. Maybe with a better bullet.

Yep!!! I had 2 of these.1 mod..99.& 1 in Savage Pump 300sav.

Among all cartridges, the .300 Savage is in the top ten in the ratio of fps/per grain of powder. A very efficient cartridge.

But can a .300 Savage case be made from a .250 Savage case, I always wanted to know if that can be done, I thought the .300 Savage case was a .250 Savage case that had its neck and shoulder blown out to the same diameter as the .30-06 neck and shoulder, please correct me if I'm wrong. I tried looking on numerous sites about what which case (.250 Savage or .30-06) Savage took in order to make the .300 Savage, but they were all very vague and didn't say.

I enjoy the savage 99 and it’s history.