Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Savage Collectors some 99 questions

can you guys help me get some info on my 99.

what model and what year was in made?

here are some pics of my .300. S/N is 10049xx, has a tang saftey and a brass cocking indicator.







thanks Byron

its a 99F (featherweight) made in 1960 maybe 61

One of the earlier post million guns with cut checkering but still has that awful tang safety that came with the break into 1 million territory. [yes Rory, except for the E]

Hee hee.. It'd be from 1960. Not any collector interest, but it should be a great hunting rifle if you scope it up and take it out. Tang safety was popular with lefties..

thanks for the info

i bought a lyman reciver site for it before i recived the rifle. it doesnt fit because of the saftey so i will have to find a 250-3000 that i can put the lyman on. this will be hunted with, thats why i picked it up just need to find the right scope for this rifle.

I like your logic - got a sight, now I gotta buy a gun for it!

Looks like it has 1 Weaver base on it. do you have the other?

That'd be funny to some people but I'm guilty of friggan doing it to.

That's kind of how I operate as well. More than once, I've found a bargain on ammo, only to then hunt for a gun to shoot it in. Seems perfectly logical to me. Not so much to my wife.

Got a good chuckle out of that one

I got a Redfield receiver sight for a Krag in a box lot at a gun show one time. I then hunted high and low for a nifty Sedgley Krag sporter to put it on. (I actually bought the boxful of odd sights and parts for the Lyman 103 cocking knob sight for a Springfield sporter I had. The dealer didn't know what he had, but I had to buy the whole box or none of it- for $40 as I recall. There was also two Griffin&Howe scope bases in there. Ah, for the good old pre-internet days when yokels at back country gun shows couldn't identify half of what they put out on their tables for sale!)

took the back base off as soon as i got it and the front screws were gound down for some reason. cut new slots in the screws took the base off and installed new bases and some new burris rings today. cant find my spare 3-9 leupold which will be on there untill i get a small fixed powere leupold.

OK then! You are on track to having a great hunting rifle.