Rossi Rifleman

Is the skull a musk ox?

mr surveyor wrote: Very nice photo work.

Yeah, so I took my very nice camera out and shot a bunch of photos of him. While I was doing that, my wife took a shot of him with her phone to text to her mother.

Guess which photo turned out best.

When I used to reenact WWII, we used very cheap point-and-shoot cameras (though a few of us had period 35mm cameras we used). We shot B&W film and took it and had it exposed. Then we took it and had it developed as color film, and requested the edges not be trimmed. The result was period-looking sepia-tone images.

Ranch Dog wrote:Is the skull a musk ox?

Yes, it came from between Council and Nome.

well mine is in pieces waiting for it's new barrel, so doesn't make for much of a pic. but just got notice that the new barrel is on it's way, so I will try to get pics up when it's all together.

Savage 99 late model carbine, made in 1937 and chambered for .303 Savage.

Nice i like that

Very nice 99! What does a guy do for brass or ammo nowadays?

I've added a Savage, a 110 chambered in 300 Savage.

Feeding a .303 Savage today:
1. New unprimed brass is available from Grafs. It's Privi brass, but they make a good product.
http://www.grafs.com/retail/catalog/pro ... ctId/12638

2. Originally loaded with 190 gr Silvertip or Lead Round Nose bullets. Today just need to find some 180 gr RN bullets, not that easy for now, but doable if haunt gun shows long enough.

3. Most any .30 caliber bullet will work, seeing as how it' has a rotary spool magazine (ala: Mannlicher Schoenauer), so pointed bullets work fine. The long neck of the .303 Savage case lends itself for cast bullets.

4. Sometimes can find a box, or partial box, of Winchester white box 190 gr factory ammo, but figure it'll cost plus/minus $50-60, or more for a full box. You find 'em where ya find 'em.

I always wanted a 99, and wanted it in 250-3000. I liked them cause they looked different.

here's my two savages. A 110 and a 112. I got the 22-250 first, and it shot so well that I went back and got another in 223. Both are tack drivers and I use to have a few one hole 5 shot group targets, that I shot at 300 meters. They would shoot most anything very good but effeminately would do better with 52 grain match bullets.
A shooting buddy showed up at the house one day with his new Rem 700 BDL custom that he had sent to Colorado and had further mods done to it. He had over $1500 in it, and at that time my savages cost me around $300 IIRC.
We went to the range and I poured out 50 rounds of ammo onto the table and popped off 3- five shot groups as fast as I could get the bullets to the 100 yd targets. All the groups were one hole groups cause it would do that at 300 and I knew it so shootin at 100 yards was childs play. He brought 5 bullets thinking that his superior "spending of money" would show-up me and my cheap guns. He shot 3 of the 5 and had a group of maybe 1-1/4"..........he didn't bother shooting the other two, loaded up and went home never to go shooting with me again.

Yep I have won alot of bets with my 93btvs in .17hmr and I know that all there guns are in most cases very accurate.