And here's another 99.
this is a mid 1960's one in 243 with a Hertel & Reuss 2.75 x 26.5 post and rail scope. Scope was sent back to Germany for a clean and lenses polish and lenses re-coated a couple of years back and optically is very good.
Barrel was cut back to about 18" due to crown damage and an internal rust pit. However a 243 with a short barrel is very noisy and makes a great flame thrower plus I could not get it to shoot. Ended up finding a local gunsmith with an unused original 22" savage 99 barrel which I had threaded and fitted.
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and another Ruger Mod 96.
this one in 22WMR with Nikon 2-8x32 scope, nice and low mounted. Barrel band cut and reblacked. would shoot 9 shots (full mag) inside 1.5" at 100 mtr with ammo it liked. trigger job, floated barrel etc, one the last ones made before production stopped. Imported for me by GC.
Cutting the barrel band made a big difference to the accuracy.
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