Here's the initial range report for my Savage 99A in .250-3000 and a few more pictures...
First of all -- she shot great!!!
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I put 15 rounds down range and it only took 5 rounds to get her sighted in 1" high at 50 yards. The target frames were all "iced in" at 50, so I couldn't get them out to 100 yards today... So I'll fine-tune my hunting zero later. All is all, I was really pleased, as I was getting very tight dime-sized groups at 50 yards on 7X off the bench. (Load was Remington Core-lock 100 gr factory ammo.) I'll bet she'll do really well out at 100 or 150 yards, which I'll test between now and the next deer season. I didn't measure the trigger pull yet, but it seemed about 5 pounds and was fairly crisp.
Here she is with a low-mounted Leupold VX2 2-7X Duplex scope on it: I was originally thinking a gloss black scope would better complement the shiny finish of this early 80's Savage -- yeah, just try and find one! I wanted the Leupold brand and could have gotten the "Ultralight" model in gloss, but that costs much more and has a smaller objective bell and doesn't "look right" to my eye; and I also didn't want to put a "Rimfire" scope on it, and those also have the smaller objectives. This one in matte black will have to do for now: Even with the lowest Weaver scope mounts (Leupold's Rifleman series), you can see there's plenty of room for the scope and scope covers, with the Williams "Guide" ramped rear sight removed. My eye is perfectly lined up with the scope when mounting it, which is great and a major reason why I like my scopes mounted as low as possible: Other than a few small dings in the top rear of the buttstock, this 30+ year old Savage looks like it just came out of the factory last week. I think I did really well for just $625 delivered. As you can see, there is still some very nice case color on the lever: The only "problems" I have now are...
* The stock is a little bit light and sorta "orange" to me...
* And there's no checkering on this model...
Any thoughts on whether adding some checkering and a darker stain would "ruin" this piece, or should I plan to leave it as is?
Do these As have the "collectibility" of the older pre-war Savages?
Thanks for looking and any feedback.
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Tight groups.
Old No7