My New Score - H&R 999 Sportsman

[ungawa]

Whoah, lots of good karma in this thread. Good score.

[bt-99]

That is a great find. It looks to be in excellent condition. Congrats!

[justashooter]

solid rib is characteristic of the earlier guns. vented rib is later guns. oversized target grips also early. i have both types with standard grips. mine are single/double, and one of them lost a rear sight blade in the grass one day. still have to make one out of bar stock to replace it. damned screws were loose and the boys were shooting it.

[22LR]

Now I'm crying! I used to have one like that only with a vented rib and slightly smaller grips. I thinks its box was brown. I inherited it a long time ago and sold it so I could buy something bigger and meaner. What a moron I was. Funny how things look different when you grow up. Nice Gun. Happy shooting with it. I am jealous..

[Xfrogman]

My H&R Story - Back in 68 when I graduated high school I wanted a Luger pistol as bad as Ralphy wanted the BB gun in christmass story, well what dad got me, an H&R 999 new in the box. I liked the gun, but the back site always seemed to come lose and it had a rather thin blueing job. I still have it somewhere in the gun safe and I have not shot it in at least 10 years.