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I’m curious about barrel weights on a couple of my 99’s. I should be able to figure it out with the reference books but it doesn’t take much to confuse my old addled brain.
I have a 1965 99 DL in 284 that has a 22” medium weight barrel. I expected it would have a light barrel like other calibers but without sight boss which wasn’t required due to smaller bore. Did all 284 DL’s have medium barrels?
I have a 1985 model C with a lightweight barrel but I thought the C barrels went to medium well before 1985.
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I think all .284's were medium weight.
What is the alfa in the serial of your Model C? The C's went to medium around 1970. Pictures or details of what your C looks like would be helpful. If you have Rory's Blue Book matching it to one of the C Styles would be good. Any modifications done to the rifle?
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The serial number of the 99C is E494xxx. It matches style 9 in Rory’s book. Dimension at the muzzle is approx .575”. I don’t know about previous modifications. The barrel to stock fit looks normal.
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By lightweight do you mean that it has a rear sight barrel boss? Or just the barrel is thinner? I have a 99C with serial E787xxx, and I didn't notice the barrel was lightweight.
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My C doesn’t have a barrel boss, it has a sliding ramp Williams and it’s thinner at the muzzle than my 284DL and same as my pre mil F (.575 for C&F, .625 for DL 284)
The F is thinner than the C towards the breech.
Maybe my C and DL are different versions of medium.
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Yeah, I think the 284 barrels might have been unique barrel profiles. Never compared mine to other middle weight barrels of the time.
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this might help. These are all muzzle diameters unless otherwise noted.
99DE 284, serial #1,083,xxx, .619",
PE 284, serial #1,139,xxx, .616",
PE 308, serial #1,160,xxx, .573",
DE 308, serial #1,084,xxx, .576",
PE 243, serial #1,142,xxx, .575,
DL, 300 Savage, 1,044,xxx (24" barrel) muzzle .553", 22" from breech .564".
Just for added info here are some pre-mil 99F's,
243 serial # 928,9xx, .538",
308 serial #950,1xx, .567",
308 serial #955,9xx, 571".
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That helps a lot, thanks for taking all those measurements. To me it reinforces what Rory suggested about the 284 being a unique barrel profile.
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you are welcome. A major objective of the forum is to provide info.
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