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Have a 1899H c. 1911 takedown, in 30-30 with a schnobel forend and tang sight. Hard rubber butt plate. Has a 20" light weight barrel. Put it on the postal scale and it came in at 6.7 pounds. A '94 Winchester carbine, in comparison, feels like a club.

Yes, scales are evil devices!

Good news Jerry!
Let us know what you decide...

Pulled out a few, lightest is my 1914 1899H 303:

1914 1899H solid frame, (hollow stock), 20” 303 Savage with Windgage sight, 6.205lbs

1920 1899H 20” Take down, 303 Savage, not hollowed with metal butt plate with Lyman 57SA, 6.75.bs
Lyman 57SA sight, 0.200lbs

1961 99E .308 20” original, 6.906lb

1999 Marlin 444P, 18.5”, 7.26lbs

1981 99A .308 22” with Redfield Revolutin 2x7, covers and studs, 7.97lb

1946 EG .300, 24", with Stith and 1st Series Weaver K4, 8.2lbs

1938 99T 300 Sav 22”, Scoped with studs and redfield 1 3/4x5, 8.255lbs

1943 EG, 24", .250-3000 with T forearm and Griffin & Howe mount and 6x Unertl scope, 9.145lbs

Keith, is the 1914 and 1920 solid frame or TD?

1914 is solid frame; 1920 is TD. I added that info now to the above.

I dont have a scale, but my 250 Barrel band seems to me to be very light! even with the 1.5X5 Kales small scope! was already D&T when I got it!

Barrel band carbine in 1939 listed at 6 3/4 pounds in the catalog.

My Dad had one he bought right after he got out of the Navy in WW2. He used to make mention that it was under 7 pounds. He got it in Arizona from a gunsmith friend he had down there. 6 pound and something....but I was a kid and I can't remember the numbers.

It had a crescent butt and the slimmest barrel I ever saw on a center-fire rifle in those days. I think it was 20" but I don't know for sure. The stock felt too long for me and I though it kicked hard. Later I thought it was probably because at the time I was using it I was about 5 foot 4" tall and weighed 95 pounds but my dad was 5 foot 10" and weighted 220 and he thought it kicked too. He said it hit him in the face, and I also remember it hitting my cheek bone as well as my shoulder especially when we used 180 grain ammo.

The rifle was in very good shape, but from what I gather by talking to Savage experts, it was likely made in the early 20s. I was very light.

Now own a 99 now in 300 Savage, and it's a 1951 made rifle, with a pistol grip, 24" barrel and a flatter steel butt. The rifle weighs a bit over 8 pounds and doesn't kick bad at all. A real pussycat to fire even with the heavier bullets. The stock on it was butchered when I got it so I made a new one and just used the old plate, but it fits me well because I could make it to my liking. No scope, just a Williams peep. I have come to like it a lot, and that's a bit weird because I really hated to use my dads gun when I was a skinny kid. I loved to hunt, but I remember not wanting to shoot the deer or elk with that rifle. It's the only rifle we had in those days, so I did kill game with it, but was REALLY happy when I got my own M70 Winchester in 270.

There was a crescent buttplate 99A made in the 1920's in 300 Savage, but it would have had a 26" or 24" barrel from the factory. The 24" barrel in 1928 was listed as 7 1/4lb.

I have a takedown “h” with a 410 barrel. I don’t have a scale to weigh it, but it is by far the lightest 99 I’ve fondled.