WOW !!!!

Thanks to a very, very, very generous cousin, sometime between the next month or so and probably Christmas I will be getting my Granddad's gun !!

As it turns out, my roots to model-99's go back a generation further than even I knew ... the gun is a Model-99 250-3000, which I never ever saw or even guessed existed !!

To say I am overwhelmed would be an understatement, especially since my cousin is giving it to me, since he hasn't used it in many, many years. He said he just wanted to give it to someone in the "family" that would hunt with it and take care of it. I let my cousin know that I was just the man fer the job !!


99er

That is so awesome....it's wonderful to keep things like that in the family. I'm so happy for you that you are getting your grandad's gun....I can only imagine how special it will become to you.

Excellent, 99er.... and I wish you the best with it.... You need to clean it up, sight it in, and take it out for deer this season.

Ditto. You have to get a deer with it for old times sake.

Mongo,

I do intend to do just that, but it probably won't probably be until next season. I won't probably get the gun until I'm up to PA this hunting season or until over Christmas. I ain't gunna trust the mail with Grandad's gun. I'm not sure if it has a scope or not, but however I get it, is the way it's gunna stay (cept for a good cleaning of course) !!


99er

Ooops, I forgot to mention ...

I am accepting donations of any 250-3000 ammo you folks care to contribute !!

99er

99er, If I loaded .250-3000 ammo, I'd send you a box or two.... sorry, but I just don't load that one.

99er:

You're one lucky guy! Over 20 years ago, I actively was searching for a 99 in 250/3000. Even then they had become very scarce indeed. (People who had them simply didn't give them up)

A word of advice - The 100gr. is the only load for deer. I know you have said that you don't reload, so my advice would be to consult Hornady which has a great custom reloading line. Let me say this about the cartridge.
It is NOT a cartridge to use on the south end of a deer going north. It just doesn't have the punch to drive forward to the boiler room. (I can hear the howls already of the 250/3000 fanatics but trust me on this) It does have great accuracy and penetrates well. (in soft tissue) Quite frankly, in my far distant youth, it was considered a "lady's gun". That's not really as much of an insult as it may sound. They said that too about the 7mm Mauser and the 7mm Mauser has been carried by professional hunters in Africa. I think the term refers to a light recoiling firearm)

Gerald,

I will be getting the gun over the Thanksgiving weekend; yea ha !!

I'm gunna start out with 100gr Remington's to start with on Groundhogs next spring and I have already talked with my "Custom Reloading Guy" and may very well switch to either a 100gr or 90gr. custom load that he offers.

Of course I figgure my cousin should get some well deserved "paybacks" for his contribution to my "collection". Although he doesn't know it yet, he will be getting 2 boxes of my 300-Savage 125gr custom loads (found out he happens to have his Dad's 300 Savage Model-99) from my "personal stash" as well as an "invite" to hunt at my PA Camp !!


99er

Congrats 99er!
Your ammo is in the mail.
That thing does shoot dog poop don't it?

Hemmy,

Speaking of dog poop, where are the lost "soldiers of fortune" ... Dogbone & General PO ?? You having problems keeping yer troops in check ??


99er