Guys,
I recently received my "Callahan Letter" for my grandfathers 99. It was manufactured in 1912, and it burned up in my parents house fire in 1985. Lucky I was that I was able to send it to Savage in 1986, and they refurbished it.
After reading the Callahan Letter, it stated that the gun came with a "20" lightweight rapid taper barrel". Unfortunately, Savage fitted it with a 24" barrel when they did the re-furb in 1986, because that is all they had, and it has little taper to it. The gun that was once a sweet little lightweight gun, is now rather heavy in comparison.
This letter has given me a desire to put the gun back like it was.
My point is, does anybody have a "20" lightweight rapid taper barrel" in .303 for sale?
One more note to add difficulty here. I remember them telling me that the gun was a take-down, but the barrel that they needed to put on it to send it back to me, was not a TD barrel. The forearm is set up for solid-frame. How would they do that? Did they simply force similar threads that were not TD threads into the old receiver?
Thoughts, input and possibly somebody to sell me a barrel are much appreciated.
Bob
