Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunting Rifles My $200 Savage Model 99

I picked up a Savage M-99E carbine in .308 yesterday at the gunshow for $200 out the door. Wood is a bit rough but the metal and bore are in great shape. I mounted an inexpensive 4x32 scope and took it too the range today.

It functions well. I shot it 10 times with cheap Rem 150 grain Core-lokts. After I got it on paper it gace me a couple 3-3.5" groups. I then cleaned it, and it had a very dirty bore. I shot it another 10 times. It is double grouping, which is often a sign of bedding. I plan to bed the fore end as Mic McPhearson talks about in "Accurizing the Factory Rifle".

Right now this is just a loaner gun, but I eventually may handload for it.

Anyone know where I can find it's date of manufacture? It's serial number is: 1035422.

BTW, for those of you who know me, I do have to admit the Savage Model 99 IS a CRF......................

Sir - was that at the Saxet gun show here in SA?

If it is I have to start going to them again!

Blaine,
Sounds like you made a pretty good buy especially considering what they are going for on the auction sites nowadays. Try the Campfires own Savage Collecter forum for some good answers to your questions about it. The guys that hang out there really know their stuff about those Savage lever rifles. .......joken2

Blaine, go to www.Savageshooters.com in the forum section, those guys know everything about Savages.

Blaine, at that price, she's a bargain even for a gray rat with rabies and plague <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> Good to see you back around the fire.

PLEASE!!!!!!

Those guys wouldn't know a 99 if it jumped out and slapped them, they're all bolt guns over there!

Blaine I think your gun is a 1961, the serial number is really close to the cut-off from 61 and the 62 start was. It should have an M stamped on the front of the lever. If it's an N could you please p.m. me so I can get my records a little closer to the cut-off, thanks, MD.

Joe,

It looks like it says "10M" on the front of the lever.

Blaine

go to the savage collectors forum, right here. they are the lever action experts.

Ya, that confirms it, it was made in 1961, thanks for the new numbers! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />



Miki, where have you been hiding, haven't seen you in the Savage room for awhile now? <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/shocked.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" />

Thanks! I guess it is time to ask the Savage board guys about acurizing.

Blaine,

Try some different factory stuff before changing the bedding. Also, clean that "mother", shoot 2 rounds, let it cool some more, and then try it-you never know.

Gator1

Touch up the crown with a 338 bullet and some compound. That's really the first thing to do on a 99.

I have a muzzle lap and do plan to lap it as well....................

mad dog, just been lurking and lying low.

Sometimes thats the best way to be! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/blush.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />

Savage 99,

My '68 99c is very accurate. Your procedure for "any 99" is puzzling. Explain.

Ric

teal325, I go to the Saxet Gun Show in S.A. every month. It's worth it. I have bought a couple of nice 99's there. There are some good deals at the show. Of course, some guys there must like packing their rifles around because they aren't priced to sell. Give it a try.

The two 99's that I have had responded more to a touch up of the crown. Perhaps I had damaged the crowns while cleaning the rifles over the years. In any case it's not hard to do once one has confidence in the proceedure.

The first thing I notice about the 99 is how hard it is to properly clean. Mine was very dirty. It took three application of 40 strokes of Rem Bore Cleaner followed by three applications of soaking in Sweet's 7.62 for 15 minutes. The muzzle guide for my Mini 30 fits the 99 and helps some. Regardless, it is still a pain.

I started by feeding my "short" Dewey rod--which is still way too long--in form the muzzle without a jag or patch loop. I then took a patch loop--that Ihad loaded with a pair of patches and then dipped in solvent--and threaded it on the the rod. Then I pulled the rod through. This is the way I applied the solvent, the alcohol neutralizer, and the Sweet's 7.62. For the RBC I just started form the muzzle end and worked very carefully. With a bolt gun 40 strokes with RBC takes only a minute or so, on the 99 it takes much longer. I was also very careful to clean the chamber several times during this process. With a bolt gun I only clean the chamber once after I am completely done with the bore.

The groups did tighten after I cleaned the bore, but it still "double grouped" which is usually a sign of bedding issued. Granted a better ammo or my best handloads may double group to a lesser extent, but they will still double group.