Can I be blunt? Murray was wrong to call the 26" round barrel crescent BP an 1899A until the change to the 24" medium weight barrel in 1926. Savage advertising from about 1921 on called the models 99A, 99B, 99C, 99D, 99E, 99F, 99G. They didn't call them 1899A, 99B, 99C, 99D, etc. The 18 was gone from the model designation. All models were 99's! There were two variations of the 99A, a 26" rifle weight barrel made from 1921-26 and a 24" medium weight barrel rifle made from about 1926 to 1936.
In a related topic Murray refers to barrels introduced in 1926 as lightweight or featherweight barrels in some places and in other places as medium weight. The Savage advertising in this era refers to these barrels as lightweight. All the 99 barrels were the same diameter and taper and therefore, medium weight barrels until the 99F was introduced in 1955. They were somewhat heavier than the true lightweight barrels produced from 1904 to 1926 in such models as the 1899H, 1899 250-3000, 99E, 99F and 99G. See Table 5-4 on page 67 and Figure 5-14 on page 68 of my book. Did I hit a home run? David
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