My brother recently gave me a 99E for my 60th birthday. The gun is in 300 Savage, and it's a nice shooter. It's in reasonably good shape with decent bluing, and the birch stock is OK.

The biggest problems I have with it are the recoil pad someone installed, and cracks in the tang portion of the stock. I could do a couple things. I want the recoil pad off of the gun, the stock hasn't been cut, so that is a plus, so I'd have to find a butt plate. Also, I'd have to try to repair the cracks, and then refinish the stock.

I've refinished birch stocks before, and they just never look quite right. And I don't want to get into a lot of repairs on a birch stock.

My other thought is to replace the existing stock with one that looks better and isn't cracked. So I'm asking for some suggestions. Being new to the Savage 99, I don't know what resources are out there for Savage parts.

Here are a few pics of the gun, and any help you can give me will be appreciated.

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