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I agree the 30-30 RS is questionable, JA at the SavageFest had one labeled as a RS that was a NY police issue - presumed he had a letter, but looking at it and there's no sling studs and wrong sight so I'd have to call it an 99R.

Could have sworn I had a 99R/RS with mixed checkering in my notes, but don't see it. Know I saw one, but it might have just been a "transition" rifle or swapped stock. So happy to remove that from the list.

Going to dispute that you can remove the 1950's 99RS from the list.. there is NO way that Savage paid for advertising for something for 10 years and never sold one. I agree it was a poor deal to pay more to get a peep sight in the times of factory d&t and the arrival of affordable scopes. And maybe when they got an order for an RS they just grabbed an R and swapped rear sights and threw on a peep - but it was catalogued for a long time. 99R's in 243 are rare as hens teeth also and I've never seen a box for one, but that doesn't mean they don't exist or that somebody swapped an EG in 243 barrel onto an R and thus we can't say that 99R's in 243 don't really exist.

I'm going to argue for the switch from Lyman to Redfield peep as being revisions rather than versions. Advantage there is we will end up with the same number of versions of 99R's and 99RS's - and swapping a peep sight is not much of a version change.

So.. new proposed list of versions that should match up to both 99R's and 99RS's.

1) First is prewar, no fluted comb, has 3pt checkering and Lyman 30 1/2 tang sight, Lyman #6 rear sight. Serial number range of 342,5xx to 345,8xx.



2) Second is prewar, fluted comb, 3pt checkering, Lyman 30 1/2 tang sight, Lyman #6 rear sight. (Checkering on the side panel doesn't count). Serial number range from 345,8xx to 355,6xx.



3) Third is prewar, fluted comb, has 2pt checkering on buttstock, 1 less point on forearm checkering, and forearm without extra point. 357,8xx to 414,3xx. Revision 1 has a Lyman 30 1/2 tang sight with Lyman #6 rear. Revision 2 has a Redfield 70LH tang sight with rear sight blank.

Rev.1 with Lyman 30 1/2 from 357,8xx to 378,8xx.


Rev. 2 with Redfield 70LH from 386,xxx to 415,xxx'ish.


4) Fourth is postwar, no fluted comb, triangular checkering on forearm, d&t for scope bases, Redfield 70LH tang sight, sling eyes. 532,xxx to 775,xxx?

5) Fifth is postwar, no fluted comb, triangular checkering on forearm, d&t for scope bases, Redfield tang sight, sling eyes, receivers long enough to handle the 243/308/358 Winchester cartridges. 900,000 to 969,xxx?





Gaps in serial number ranges are because we have no samples inside of those ranges.