they are some beautiful rifles

 

Enjoy the range and loading time.:top: Cheers :tee:

 

Thanks for posting, One of the many nice things about a Savage 99 is that there is solid steel between the shooter and the breech bolt. Please keep us updated on your reloading results.

 

i have had many 99s in my life, but i have never had a 22hp but always wanted one. you can always shoot cast out of it to. the one you have is a 99H model in take down, very cool....

 

Guy,

Thanks for the report! The Savage 99s are great rifles and the 22 High Power is one of the real classics as well as one of the first truly high velocity centerfire cartridges. Savage was ahead of its time and when the 22 HP was introduced it was touted as an effective big game cartridge. In fact, in Savage ads they would feature the pic of a tiger killed with a 22 Savage. Unfortunately, many animals were lost in the early years as a result of the hype and the 22HP unfairly gained a reputation as a wounder of game . It is a fine cartridge but it's best used on coyote-sized critters. Of course, many a whitetail has been whacked with one down here in Texas. :biggrin:

I have a rifle like yours. It is indeed a neat rifle! Also, the 22 High Power remains popular in Europe as the 5.6X52 Rimmed. Ammo is readily available and reasonably priced. Most have good results with the Sellier & Bellot loads. Sellier & Bellot Ammo 5.6x52mm Rimmed (22 Savage High-Power) 70 Grain
Sellier & Bellot SB5652RB Full Metal Jacket 5.6mmX52R 70 GR $17.99

T.S.

 

i remember that photo from when i was a kid. maybe outdoor life.

Guy,

Thanks for the report! The Savage 99s are great rifles and the 22 High Power is one of the real classics as well as one of the first truly high velocity centerfire cartridges. Savage was ahead of its time and when the 22 HP was introduced it was touted as an effective big game cartridge. In fact, in Savage ads they would feature the pic of a tiger killed with a 22 Savage. Unfortunately, many animals were lost in the early years as a result of the hype and the 22HP unfairly gained a reputation as a wounder game . It is a fine cartridge but it's best used on coyote-sized critters. Of course, many a whitetail has been whacked with one down here in Texas. :biggrin:

I have a rifle like yours. It is indeed a neat rifle! Also, the 22 High Power remains popular in Europe as the 5.6X52 Rimmed. Ammo is readily available and reasonably priced. Most have good results with the Sellier & Bellot loads. Sellier & Bellot Ammo 5.6x52mm Rimmed (22 Savage High-Power) 70 Grain
Sellier & Bellot SB5652RB Full Metal Jacket 5.6mmX52R 70 GR $17.99

T.S.

 

Sweet!

 

savage 99 any cal. is one CLASSY rifle!

 

Oddly, despite the ad, I've never thought of this as being "enough" rifle for tiger....

Really looking forward to loading for this old rifle, shooting it more, and carrying it afield.

Guy

 

Ran across one at a pawn shop a while back, but it obviously belong to someone evil. Gouges and scratches and pits. Graceful wear I can handle, outright abuse stays on the shelf. Looks like you're gonna have some fun for a while.

 

Maybe you're looking at this wrong - it could be that there are so few tigers now because of the 22 HP. Maybe. Kinda. Sorta. Or not...

An oddball caliber is always fun. A buddy acquired a Model 1915 Danish Krag armory-fitted with a bull barrel and micrometer sights which had been liberated in WWII and in a closet since. It was great fun identifying the chambering (8x58R), locating dies, brass, and load data, then making that old gentleman roar.

 

today we have much better bullets, I would not be surprised if a 70 gr partition or A- frame . you know something like that could change the ball game. its worth looking into,

 

i've scoured the 'net fer years pickin' up bullets fer mine, but the further i go afield, the more i like the 70gr speer--both the .228 (no longer made) and the .224. it was made fer shootin' up-to-deer-sized critters, and i'm told by them who know that it'll "electrify" any deer hit in the chest cavity, regardless of its size. like most of them, it's not a real m.o.a. target puncher, but mine shoots minute of coyote to my club's 185-yard target line using ken waters' pet load of 26gr of 4064 and that 70gr speer. just fer fun, i've reloaded some with the rws "t-mantle" .228, and i've tried old sisk 70gr .228's as well. buffalo arms makes 3 bullets for it, but i've not had much luck with them, or the hornady .227. i find the canadian brass much less useful than the norma; back before i had a 25-35 (and could get 25-35 winnie brass in bulk) i necked some of them down--giving me the idea of packing it in my washington deer haunts and tellin' any game warden that asked that it was a 22 hipower rebored to 25-35 (that's been done with some of them). just my luck, the guy would have a micrometer handy and i'd be busted! anyway, the best brass i've used--and reloaded many times--is some resized by a fella on GB that uses once-fired 30-30 brass; i think he's charging less than 35 bucks fer 50 of 'em. be careful of the canadian brass, and the serbian, and especially old remington brass; they don't hold up as well as norma or old winnie and it's tricky gettin' a case out if the head separates. 22 hipower brass tends to stretch easy; just neck-size and trim it as long as it feeds well and it'll last a lot longer, whichever brass yer usin'. i'm not aware of a lee-loader fer the hipower--the "imp", it was often called--but the rcbs works fine. also, don't use the "take-down" function much; they git loose and sloppy after awhile. i have arthritis in my shoulder; it's sure fun to shoot a rifle with no recoil, so mine gets shot quite a bit.
mind yer topknot!
windy

 

Windy - thanks for that wealth of information!

What was the problem with the bullets from Buffalo Arms? That looked like a pretty good option... Maybe not?

Thanks, Guy

 

Never have seen a Mod 99 in 22 Hi-Power. I feel lucky in grabbing two--one in 308 Win, the other in the classic 300 Savage. I am partial to my 99F in 300 Savage--basically a "lightweight" version of this great old rifle. These classics are getting fewer everyday--hold onto any Mod 99 that you can get. They probably will never be made again!

 

I have owned 2-99 HPs. Never got a lot of trigger time on them because I only had factory ammo, didn't load for it. Guy I know shoots
23 cal bullets he runs through sizing die. I read article once that the HP was very popular with the northern coastal Indians who
shot seals and walrus. I guess a head shot would wipe out their muscle reflexes and they wouldn't dive back in the water, as a lower
velocity would permit.

 

Hmmm. A little research reveals that this is a Model 1899H, take-down, with two barrels, and likely made in 1913.

Cool.





Now to make sure she's sighted-in properly, (appears to be from the few shots I took yesterday) and take her hunting!

Guy

 

One of the great old rifles.:top:

 

m700, where you at in washington; maybe we can git together. or send me yer snail-mail address when ya git ready to reload some; i'll send ye a sample of the buffalo, the c.i.l. (them's the canadian bullets) and i may scare up some hornadys. i can give you a batch of the speers to compare 'em to--ye might wanta start watching gb for some on auctions. i'm located down at eatonville; shoot at the upper nisqually gun club range.
mind yer topknot!
windy

 

Am in Wenatchee. Busy as all get out right now with a lot of good work.

Will contact - and thanks!

Guy

 

m700,
It saddens me to read about your Savage 99 22 Hi-Power, I had one exactly like yours with the .410 barrel. But I unfortunately sold it 40 years ago, it was one of my many mistakes that I made in my youth.

 

Had an opportunity to purchase one back in the early 90s but thought ammo was to hard to find. Still think what a fool I was.

 

I bought one in a local gunshop back in 1978 and paid a pretty penny for it but it looked like it just came out of the box. I believe it was a 99H and had a 20 inch barrel and all the case coloring and what I remember most about it was the butt plate which had a indian with a head dress emblazed on the plate. It had a small buckhorn sight with the front sight pinned between two little post. It shot really well but ammo was hard to get until a gun shop went out of business and had a close out sale where everything went to the highest bidder. When you walked into the gunshop they gave you a card with a number and you held up the number when you bid on a item. The shop was full of people when it first started but a hour later there was about 15 people left and they started selling off the ammo. There was 9 boxes of Norma 22HP ammo with a set of dies taped together and I got them for a total of 18 dollars. When I left the sale I had fishing rods hung out the window and you couldn't put anything in the back seat of my car, it was packed. I also bought a rack of shellbelts, cowboy belts and razorstraps (40 in all) for 40 dollars and they threw in the round revolving rack that they were hung up on. There was a big cardboard box sitting in the center of the floor that had surprise in big letters wrote on it and it was the last thing that sold. I was standing behind a cedar pole roof support and when the bidding got to ten dollars I was trying to bid but the auctioneer did not see me and the box sold for ten dollars and it had 10 new steeltraps, a puma hunting knife, a pair of browning kangroo hunting boots and about 20 new fishing lures in the box along with several other items. On one side of the building was the fishing section with three rows of fishing lures down a fifteen foot wall and they started off selling the lures one t a time and they quickly figured it would take too long to sell them so they started selling three or four at a time but time was running on the sale so they sold the last two rows for 25 dollars a row and I bet there was forty or fifty lures on each row.. I had a friend that had a small gunshop about 25 miles away and he bought the majority of the inventory, display cases and all for pennies o the dollar. It was the kind of sale I know I will never see again but I can dream about it Ha