Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Savage Collectors Whats the current market for 99Fs in .308?

Bottom line: if the gun turns you on and you have the jingle in your pocket, buy it. I've had more gun related regrets in my life than I care to remember. (Just make sure of the chambering v. serial number, and if it is a "low number" .308, make sure it feeds through the magazine before reaching for your wallet.)

I wonder if JTC (or anyone else) could shed some light on whether or not lettering post WWII 99's is generally possible and what the contents are.

Okay, update from the shop.

Confirmed: Its a 99F

SN is 918XXX, I could not find a Lever Boss Code

Rear sight is a Lyman 57SA, barrel rear sight is a Marbles fold-down semi-buckhorn rear sight. Front sight looks stock.

Asking price is $795.

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You're the one looking at it and you're the one judging the condition. Depending on how much you want it and what you can afford would have to play into it. $795 is not unrealistic. You can always negotiate wiggle room. Most have it and are open to an offer. Let us know how it all pans out.

Not sounding too bad with the Lyman on it.

Are you sure the rear sight is a Marbles? Savage started using a fold down semi buckhorn around 1959. The elevator would have a 2 stamped on it if Savage.

Rear sight had Marbles name on it so yes I'm sure its theirs.

Looking at the market on GB, the shop is asking a bit too much. I think I want to wait a bit and then see if they are willing to come down some.

My brother talked my father into buying a 99F in 308 in 1973.
My father had a machine gun patent and the military had dropped off crates of 7.62x51mm ammo, even though it was on the wrong kind of belt.
http://www.google.com/patents/US3894471

To use up this ammo we teen agers got a 308.
It as amazingly accurate, and then my brother shot flares from it.
My brother sold it.
Then it got rebarreled with a new barrel from Savage.
That was installed by an incompetent gunsmithing who claimed he was the best gunsmithing in the state. The headspace was a full thread too big.
By then I was an adult. I found out about the missing family heirloom, bought it back, and took it a real gunsmith, the late Randy Ketchum.
I have it now and have hunted with it.


Yikes! is has mold on the stock. I am not doing a good job of taking care of this family heirloom.