Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Savage Collectors 99A (early) - David's book and Murray's 3rd - Differences

If y'all want to know where the confusion originall stems from, I can tell ya.

Since the 1899's never had model names for the most part (250-3000, Monarch, Leader, etc. beside the point) - in the early 1920's the advertising from Savage would refer to the new models with either 1899 OR 99 in front of it. So the 1922 price list shows 1899A, 1899B, 1899C, 1899D, 1899E, 1899F, etc.

It was just advertising, nobody was confused. If you said 1899C in 1924, everybody knew you meant what we call a 99C because there had never been a model 1899C. Just like nobody back in the 20's was confused by Savage stamping "Savage Model 1899" on top of the receiver. Of course it was an 1899 - and it was a 99.

But think how confusing it would be now if we tried to go with "early 1899 models", "transitional 1899 models", and "99 models". Ugh.

So for the new stuff, we just call them all 99's so that we know when somebody says 1899C that he's talking 26" round/octagon barrel, not a 1920-1923'ish 22" round barrel rifle.

Just to confuse y'all again.