Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Savage Collectors Saw a T in .250 at auction today

Saw a T in .250 at auction today in Johnstown.
What a beautiful rifle, s/n # 350493.
Metal had very little wear on the edges at the carry point, case on the lever was 94%, couple of stock dings and one extra hole in the butt for a swivel. A gentleman name Mike from Bedford took it home. Hopefully he will share some pictures with us
Rick

Do you remember what it went for?

Very curious.

PM sent

I saw a .250 "G" in action today...not in nearly the shape though...I want a T in 250 sooooo baddddllllyyyy...

One like this? Very cool.. Congrats to the buyer. PM me what it went for please, thinking of putting this up for auction. Course, mine's not nearly in that good of shape, somebody d&t'd mine. Twice. On top both times. Sigh..

Cal,

You're not going to get a lot of sympathy around here about your T. It's a T in 250-3000, put a scope on it and hunt it.

Pretty special rifle I think.

Tough crowd.

Has a scope.. but I still feel guilty shooting it.

This one is one most of our love to own list. T's are scarce and my preferred caliber would be a 250 to sit beside my 300.
Bill

Was at work yesterday and this guys drives by that knows my foreman and stops. He pops the trunk so I figure he's got some beer so I walk over to the car. Turns out he had a beauty of a lynx in the trunk that he shot that morning. I asked what he shot it with and he says a 303 Savage. Me being me I ask to see it. He pulls out nice old lever and I say nice gun, it's a model 1899A Short rifle. Then I turn it over and the serial number just about knocked me off my feet. 240XXX, Sum bitch, it was a 99C. Never held one before and I couldn't persuade him to sell it to me.

Them old Cs are tack drivers with that heavy barrel!

Mike, it had a Savage marked rear sight with the screw adjustable elevator, was that a correct sight on it?

I thought you had a 99C.

The sight was the first version flat top sporter. It was used after WWI and was probably still used in the 240,000 serial range.

Thanks Rick!

I am still fairly new to the Savage game, but thanks to the forum am learning alot. Bought a Savage a few years ago for 375, guy told me it was an RS in 300 Savage. Got looking at Murray and took gun apart, had T on receiver, 22" barrel, and beavetail forearm nothing was consistent w/ it being an RS. Serial # 381xxx. This gun is in good shape, but just a shooter. Got drilled and tapped at one point and someone filled the holes. Am asking for opinions if you would redrill and mount a scope on it for hunting or leave it? Right now it wears a Lyman tang.

Sounds like T to me! its up to you your gun, I would not mess with it! unless your going to hunt with it than id do what best suited me, for how I hunt, there great guns, I have a EG that was made in the 40s 300sav. has a 22 in. barrel the T forarm but eg checkered, stamped EG but upside down, from others I have had, It might see the woods this year, be my bad weather or long range gun as Im hopeing to use an H 30-30! John

If it looks like this with this checkering:





And has this on the front of the receiver:




Then you have a 99T. Congrats, one of the best! For $375? You're a thief..

If the holes have already been filled in, I'd say it's up to you do. I don't think the value will be less for using the d&t holes than for leaving them filled in.

How are the holes filled? Might be real tough to re-drill without a jig to keep things lined up.

The damage has been done since they didn't fill them well enough to make them disappear. I'd drill it again.

Yes plug welding can fill any holes, when done properly you just can not tell.

Years ago I was faced with this same problem on a rifle I refused to drill and tap. The customer insisted and I told him to take it somewhere else. He insisted he did not trust anyone else to work on his rifle and had to do something. I had and idea floating in the back of my mind for sometime, told him I wanted to try something different to take care of the problem and in no way effect the value of his old 99.

Yes it works, I did not charge the customer a dime and explained that if it didn't workout, I want to know about it. I saw the guy again and again over the years and worked on others of his rifles. Never saw the old 99 again. This has been my policy on any collectible that folks wanted me to drill and tap, I don't do anything different than the first and have had no complaints or returns. I still don't charge for the service either.

That picture of the rifle with the old Stith mounted scope, brings back memories.

Yes that is just like my T except yours is minty compared to mine. I would rate mine as a solid good condition gun, not one that would fall under a true collector piece, but then again I've run across much worse. Thanks for your input on this. I think I'll leave it alone. Besides it will give me an excuse to look for one possibly a nice "F" that is factory drilled for a scope. Thanks to everyone here on forum, I am definitely gaining excellent information on collecting these fine guns.

Not exactly sure what they filled the holes w/ but you can definitely tell it was drilled. Judging by what you guys are telling me they didn't do the best of job. On the other hand its good to know from what I am being told that the T is somewhat desirable. Thanks again for the input. I am learning....slowly but learning. Jeff