It doesSounds like you're getting a new rifle!! :)
It doesSounds like you're getting a new rifle!! :)
The Dunning-Kruger effect is alive and well.
My old friend and gunsmith, the late Howard Wolfe wouldnt even utter the word no.
He would just shake his head, and that was that. lol
Just read on the J E S Rifle Reboring website that he’s experimenting with 350 Legend. Maybe you could be a guinea pig.
Hello MonkeyMaster! From North Central Iowa. I'd love to be a able to deer hunt with my 99's, 250 and 300 Savage and also my Remington 81's, both 300 Savage. Tough looking at pictures and reading about hunts of others in states where they can hunt with these two rifle styles. Long time bow hunter since '69, have done alot with 12 gu shotgun, a little with muzzle loader. The last two years I've hunted with a Marlin 1894 Cowboy model in 44 Magnum. It will drop em, but would love to take either a 99 or 81 out after the critters. You have a lot of nice country in the NE part of Iowa. Have done alot of squirrel hunting over the years in the Strawberry Point area, but haven't for some time. Have family there. Your thoughts in converting a 99 to take one of the straightwall cartridges would be neat and way to go, but sounds like be more pain and $$$ than worth, if it were possible. Read on another forum about a guy who converted a 99 to shoot 35 Remington, but don't know the skinny on how and what had to be done. Over the last few years since Iowa has allowed the straightwall cartridges to be used, I sure can tell when someone fires one of those in the distance, same goes for the 45/70. Distinct sound vs a shotgun.
45-70 works real nice for whitetails.
I have a 1895 that I use.
Hopefully, I can still use it next year, there is a bill being considered that would remove the 45-70 and the 444 from the approved list.
I have no idea why.
I have e mailed the DNR to ask why the sudden switch, and have yet to receive an reply back.
I am currently looking at some 44 mag lever guns.
That said, my 99 in 300 savage gets taken out for coyote hunting.
At least we can use them here for that.
Let him grow, Shoot a doe !
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