Hello folks!

kydave · 03-20-2016, 12:35 PM

I'm Dave (Kentucky Dave is what the user name is for), born & raised in Louisville, but I've lived in Northern California well over half my life now. When I first moved to the Eureka/Arcata area I was a partner in a restaurant briefly. One other partner was David, and the head cook was Dave, so I became "Kentucky Dave". It stuck as my stage name while playing music up there.

Learned to shoot at an indoor NRA range in Junior NRA as a kid in the '50s in downtown Louisville. My first rifle was a 30-40 Krag my granddad gave me at 19; my first pistol was a S&W model 19 I bought when I hit 21.

I'm not as active a shooter since I moved to Silicon Valley and the Bay Area after living in far Northern California, where I was a range master at a lovely large range in the redwoods and carried CCW. I have maintained my USPSA membership though. I'm a Life NRA member.

I played music for much or all of my living from the late '60s through the '80s, then decided to "grow up" and went back to college, then law school. I make a living in law now and it lets me buy more guitars and guns than I could as a working musician.

I don't know squat about Savage guns, other than always liking the lines and patina of an old, well used, model 99. I decided to keep my eye out for one in .308 locally, which took a while, but the timing worked out & I got one this month for my 65th birthday present from me to me. Took it out to the range Friday (day before yesterday) and, for 65 year old eyes shooting a 60 year old rifle with an inexpensive Lyman 4x scope as old as the rifle probably, I was a happy camper. After dialing in the scope and playing around with a few different bullet weights I had sitting around from my other .308's (an LR-308 and Remington 750) I ended up the day with a couple of 1" groups of 4 rounds, the last one in the bull at 100 yards.

Looking forward to learning things Savage!

Thanks folks!

Dave

**Rick_W** · 03-20-2016, 12:51 PM

Welcome and congrats on a nice find.

**drybean** · 03-20-2016, 01:42 PM

Welcome aboard

**devildogandboy** · 03-20-2016, 05:53 PM

welcome Dave. i too have always liked the old 99's. i always looked at them at the pawnshops when i was a kid, liked the lines of them also, never owned one but still hope to acquire one. maybe someday.

Bruce

**yew plucker** · 03-23-2016, 11:52 PM

Welcome, Dave. Good to see an old 99 still shooting.

**shagerott** · 03-24-2016, 06:11 PM

Nice! I like the look of the 99s when they show wear, have been used and loved - still going strong. Borrowing from a froyo store, it has "smileage". You made me smile...