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Fireball, if your still interested please call me 210-275-5657.
I'll be up late tonight. Bob

Probably an easy one. I know it's a later build in .300 Savage. SN 5741xx. The lever boss has what almost looks like "24B". Awfully difficult to make out well, though, except for the B. Checkered stock and steel buttplate. "Should" be all original as the guy I got it from had no interest in modifying his firearms. I'd like to know manufacture timeframe and letter designation, just to satisfy my own curiosity. This gun's a great shooter!

"A"= 1949. One guess what year "B" is.

Big fat stocks and round forearm and it's a model R. slim stocks and schnable forearm and it's an EG.

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Crappy picture, I know, but it's my baby.

That's a fairly nice looking 99R. It's a pretty common model, but nothing wrong with them (well, except the extra 16oz or so added by the heavy forearm ).

Welcome to the campfire!

Thanks!

I took in trade a Savage 99, 300 savage, steel counter, serial number 6294XX, the oval stamp on the lever boss has the number "200" in it. Any info on this rifle would greatly be appreciated.

That would be 20 D no doubt. 1952.

Fireball, thanks for the info, after getting my cheaters on, you were right "20 D"

Thanks...........

I have a 99 #1062310, no lbc. Anyone know the year?

1963 (P). Still has the cut checkering.

Thanks Rick. It's a 99F in .284. I'm trying to get a little more information about it, but it could be a very early .284, as in pre-production or some such. Still not sure.

I'm jealous

Might be worth pulling the butt stock to see if the date code is stamped on the receiver. We call it the LB code but it's not unique to that spot.

Mike and David,
It's may be just a put together, who knows? It's got some interesting clues for sure. No date code anywhere on the rifle that I can find.

Hello everyone. I just picked up a 99 in 300 savage and would like to find out when it was produced. The serial # is 598169.
The little number on the front of the trigger guard is un readable.
Thanks for any help you can give me.

Gene-C

Welcome to the site. I have one that is 575XXX with a lever boss code "B", that makes it a 1950, and another with a lever boss code "D", 646XXX, making it a 1952. So, I'd put yours between 1950 and 52. I think Davids book has the serial list, but, I just woke up and don't feel like going down stairs to check. Someone will be along shortly to give you more accurate dating, Joe.

Does your rifle have the rather heavy rounded forearm, that would make it a Model R, or the thinner tapered forearm with the schnabel tip, that would make it a Model EG, Joe.

My E.G. #5977xx has a C LBC code for 1951, so yours is probably from 1951.

My gun has the rounded forearm but the gun has been re blued and I think it has custom stock and forearm. I looked again for the letters stamped in front of the trigger guard with a magnifying glass and it looks like the letter C . That would indicate it was made in 1951. It has cut checkering and an black cap on the front of the forend. The stock also is a monty carlow. The gun is beautiful and I wish you all could see it but I do not know how to post pictures. Not a collector piece for the purest but it looks good in my cabinet. I plan on taking it Hog hunting this winter in Texas. I love the smell of a new gun in the morning!!!!

Gene-C