Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Savage Collectors Which Savage 99 is the best?

My F is 1600 miles north of here, but being the analytical cuss that I am, I weigh all my rifles. With that Leupold 1.5-5x20 that is on that .300, I don’t remember it going much over about 7:5 pounds.

You'll need a cart for sure if you want a full bag of Savages! LOL

1959 catalog says: 99F about 6 1/2 lbs; 99 EG about 7 1/4 lbs; 99R about 7 1/4 lbs. go figure. It shows the R with sling swivel eyes also. That must add an ounce or two.

Thank you. That’s about what I figured. Wood isn’t all that heavy usually so a little extra isn’t going to add up too much. Wouldn’t surprise me if 99R’s actually weigh a few ounces more.

Who is "ctw"? Website? Full name?

For most deer hunting I'd guess that the 300 Savage is hard to beat. Mine is a 99eg and it has a M8-4x on it.



It wouldn't be my first choice for long range though.

The answer to the original question is easy: It's the one you're holding right now. That being said, my go-to deer rifle is a mid-1950s (factory drilled and tapped) 99F in .300 Savage.

I said that pages ago. You guys have just got WAY too much idle time on your hands.

I like the pre war feather weight barrels 1920?

I like shot gun butts.

300 savage is my favorite caliber

I would like to get a carbine butt some time……

But I ain’t losing any sleep over not owning one…..yet.

This post motivated me to weigh some Chicopee Falls 99s.
99EG 300 cal, serial #683xxx. Wt. 7.8#'s
99F 308 cal, serial #950xxx, Wt 6.8#'s
99F 243 cal, serial #928xxx, wt. 6.7#'s. This rifle's barrel is about .03" smaller outside diameter than the 308.
99EG 243 cal, serial #924xxx, Wt. 7.7 #'s +
99EG 358 cal, serial #967xxx, Wt. 7.0 #'s. Ha, Ha, Gottcha. This rifle has a drilled out (lightened) 99F buttstock. Could this be the major weight difference between the F and the EG?
99R 250-3000 cal, serial #698xxx. 9.4 #'s but it has a Leupold 3x9 scope and Redfield mount. I weighed an unattached Leo 3x9 and a Redfield mount and rings. They weigh 1.0 #. So the 99R in 250 weighs 8.4#'s. Both of my post WWII R's have scopes so this was the best I could do.

That is helpful, thanks! Very interesting too.

Thanks, I found the results interesting. The catalog said the EG and R weighed the same which I knew from holding them (and looking at them) that that couldn't be true. I should weigh the 99R 300 but it's complicated taking the Boone Saturn scope off of it. I would expect it to be a little lighter than the 250-3000 because the barrel would be a little thinner due to the larger bullet diameter. Maybe 8 1/4 pounds. I don't trust the catalogs much.

Once years ago I almost bought a 99R in 250 in a Cabelas outside of Reno Nevada that was worth its weight in Tiger Tanks. It inspired me to post a thread on the forum asking why the R was so heavy when all the metal parts appeared the same as an EG. The only answer I could get was that it had to do with the density of the wood. And that seemed as reasonable an answer as anything else to me. I would have bought that R had not the sales staff been more motivated in getting my money than anything else having to do with the transaction.

walk around in bush 30-30 carbine, sitting 250 or 300 and longer range Lupy 3-7 power. big thing for me now is get my azz out there.

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