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#0, GotW 49: A wild Savage 1899 appears!
Posted by Gryphon on Jul-08-17 at 02:49 AM
LAST EDITED ON Jul-08-17 AT 02:50 AM (EDT)
 
This is not the "failed dependency" post, that one's still in the works.

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#1, RE: GotW 49: A wild Savage 1899 appears!
Posted by Nathan on Jul-08-17 at 06:06 PM
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Ooooh. Rotary magazines are just way too cool.

...And my brain just charged off into RPG character land with various speculations, so I don't have anything else useful to say right now.

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#2, RE: GotW 49: A wild Savage 1899 appears!
Posted by Gryphon on Jul-31-17 at 01:27 AM
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I bought a couple of .30-30 snap caps the other day and discovered a mild-to-moderate shortcoming of the Savage 99's magazine design. Unless I'm missing something—which is always possible—there doesn't seem to be an "official" way to load this rifle without putting a round into the chamber. In the Winchesters there is; loading the tube magazine on any Winchester lever gun from the 1894 all the way back to the pre-Winchester 1860 Henry has nothing to do with the action, you do it with the lever closed, and only when you work it for the first time is a rounded actually chambered.

In the Savage, you load through the top of the action with the lever open, and when you close it, you automatically chamber the first round. There is no obvious way to avoid this, although if you fool around with it a little you can get the bolt to "miss" the top cartridge and close without it. That seems more like a hack than an intentional function, but perhaps it really was the intended way of handling the matter in 1899; manufacturers back then did have a tendency to just assume that people would figure these little tricks out.

Anyway, I just thought that was interesting. Given how untrustworthy the safety on mine is, I would be pretty hesitant about carrying this rifle in the field, if I were in the habit of carrying rifles in the field in the first place.

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