Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Savage Collectors Tom Gillman custom build 99 savage

I have a mod.99savage rifle that I believe was built by a man by the name of Tom Gillman that is a beautiful piece of artwork. what I am looking for is anyone that can tell me anything about him or his workmanship and anyone who may have known him personally. So I can put a better idea of an insurance value on this rifle.

A Mannlicher 99. The only other one I've seen is in Ken Waters "Pet Loads."

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Maybe I should have said Mannlicer style stocked 99.

Back in the 1960's, Fajen used to list mannlicher style 99 forearms as an available option in their catalogs. But not nearly as nicely finished as the Gillman built rifle.

I can't wait to hear more about the Gillman 99, pictures?!!

There are other mannlicher 99s out there..., just sayin'

this stock is hand made hand checkered out of a birdseye maple with a walnut inlay. I have to work today but I will try to post some pics this evening.

Roy, I didn't know those old birch stocks could be made to look that good. I'm not a custom fan but they didn't hurt the looks of that 99-E one bit...sweet!

i have been trying to download pictures but i don't have them posted on a web site. How do you post pictures?

Easiest is to get a Photobucket account, upload them there, then there's a field where you can click which will copy the link to the picture into memory. Then come here and paste that link.

Why did this song pop in my head when I saw that rifle? LOL

This I hope will get some attention but these pictures really dont do it justice! But this is one fine piece of work! And the fact that it is a 225 win.cal. has really had me puzzled since savage never made one in this cal. as far as I can tell from all my research, if anyone can tell me more I would greatly appreciate it. Thank You!

AFAIK, the only rifle that Savage ever cataloged in 225 was the 340V.

I understand that this was not built by savage because the barrel is not stamped by savage so that is what makes me believe that the whole gun was a custom build.

Well given that everything has been irreversibly altered on this rifle, it no longer qualifies as a Savage 99...., but....

That is one extremely cool variation on the 99 theme!!

I can't wait to hear how the 225 win cycles through the rotary magazine, and then, of course how does it shoot!!

I'd like to see how the forearm is mounted to the barrel, while You ever have it apart.

the swivel of the sling mount threads into the barrel.