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I am new to the board and have spent some time reading through the Savage forum with a good bit of interest and a good bit of humility based on the knowledge consolidated here. I have been a bird and duck hunter for the past 40 years and am just now becoming interested in rifles and deer hunting.
Last weekend a friend mentioned to me that a fellow he knows is selling a Savage 99EG 250-3000 in new condition. He said it was manufactured in 1941. I looked at the rifle and it was in new condition, perfect. No sling swivels or scope mounting. He is asking $1500 for it. I took the serial number and plugged it in at Savage99,com and according to them it is post 1950.? Serial is 6280XX. Would appreciate some help on the date and a ball park on the value. Thanks

serial number in the 600,000's = not 1941 .

1952 Around.
Value what ever the market will bare.

$1500??? Better be unfired for that price...

jmho

Thanks fellows. The seller stated that it was unfired, but beginning to wonder based on the error of manufacture date. I suspect there is no real way to tell is there.
With the 99's, believe I read that the factory move in the 70's? may have impacted quality. Then again that could have just been someones opinion.
Are there any quality issues in an early 50's manufacture (or possibly improvements over earlier production?)

Rory
Is there really such a thing as unfired?
I thought most guns from the factory always have a test round or 2 through them!

Your Gun
is a 1952,,,and the premils where one of the best made.
Should not have any issues,as far a very well made firearm,
They will preform extremely well.

Yeah, they were all fired at least once at the factory. But $1500 for an EG.. I love um, but that seems high to me. Cabela's might be able to sell it for that.

DSICOM, the factory move was in 1960. Prior to that you had serial numbers below 1,000,000 and those rifles became known as pre-mils. The post-1960 (or post-mil) rifles were quite a bit different, with more stamped parts and less hand fitting and less quality, on general. But they are still good shooters, just not up to the quality of most of the pre-1960 rifles.

Welcome to the forum, by the way!

Thanks Calhoun.
Curious what others think is a reasonable price? I need to get some pics I know and will put some up this weekend. The wood is very nice and has some feather crotch in the upper half of the stock. Blueing and CC on lever are perfect as far as I could see in the 5 minutes I looked at it.

Would need pics.. but watch the gun action websites and you'll eventually get a feel for it. If it's truly a 98%+ gun, it might be worth $1500 to somebody badly wanting a minty 99EG in 250 for their collection. But those 98% rifles are few and far between.

And, I have to qualify that I don't buy collector rifles very often. I buy shooters.. so maybe the collectors here will tell you that I'm way off and it's worth the price.

Rory, I believe closer to $1000 would be my estimate. Don

+1 on what the big guy said.

I sold a NIB EG in 250 Savage for 1200 at a show in Vegas...1998 or 99.

Jed, New in the"box" is different than as new . probably a $2000-$2500 rifle now. Don