Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Savage Collectors How Rare Are 1899 Short Rifles?

I don't believe there were enough leftover 1895 forearms to account for what is likely hundreds or more of very early 1899's with that style forearm.

I think that was just Savage's first forearm style, that they dropped pretty quickly.

We should do a thread looking for 10.xxx-12.xxx serial numbered rifles that don't have that type of forearm.

I have 10.1xx that also has the 1895 style forearm, 11.5xx that has an 1899 forearm (but it shipped late), and a 12.1xx 1899C that has an 1899 forearm (Rick, that was that "trapper" gun I had at Tulsa).