Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Savage Collectors Misrepresented .410 Savage 99 on GB!

Somebody tell me if I am mistaken please.

See GB auction item: Auction # 284529392

The link is: http://www.gunbroker.com/Auction/ViewItem.aspx?Item=284529392


This gun looks to be a modified barrel for a .410, with the wrong attachment method. Looking at the lower pics, I can even see marks where the barrel-band for the screw is supposed to be. Yet, the seller is representing this gun as being un-changed, and factory original. If I thought is was the real-deal, I would buy it even at this high price, but its just a 99 with a modified .410 barrel.

I welcome your input. Somebody is really going to buy an expensive con here, or am I wrong?

uh oh

those extra holes in the side of the frame really put a damper on calling it original... and considering Savage was not even making 410 barrels when that frame was built, its real hard to call this original... there is enough wrong things here to fill a bucket... I am simply blown away by the price.

I guess that is why you can always come here and ask if something is right or not. Never hurts to ask unless pride overides common sense.

As far as price. Apparantly, somebody thinks they found a vintage vase from the Ming Dynasty when actually it is a $1 flower vase from the last Valentines Day.

And here is the really odd issue with me. There are lots of bidders!

I read it as a uninformed seller. Photos show the problems and buyers have time to do their research before typing a number like 1600.00.

Edited to say that I agree with the original poster. The description does a good job of making it sound Wonderful. Buyer beware.

22 hun and the 15 minute rule keeps resetting as we have a bidding war ladies! "You gotta love it"!!!!!

The man bidding, could be one of us...you guys keep score of this [bleep]...but I will say, he means business when he wants a rifle!

That's an expensive boat anchor

I was bidding early on, before I got the blood clot, as I like the 410 barrel, on the forarm like that, was planning on useing it as a shooter,not sure who the other fellows are tho! I droped out about 900 tho!

wonder if the rotor was modified to hold 410 shells? or is it still a single shot. someone is going to fill his underware.

very unlikely to be more than a single shot.

This statement is a blatant error:

My guess is that someone made a .410 barrel by re-boring and shortening an 1899A rifle takedown barrel. How else would it have that barrel address? It certainly didn't start out life as an 1899H barrel. The wall thickness at the muzzle is too thick, methinks, to have been made from an H barrel. Nice gun, though refinished and w/extra holes. Would have been a neat curiosity, but at a fraction of what it sold for. Probably points and handles like a butt-heavy club though, not like one expects from a decent shotgun. But still...

My boy could be persuaded to part with his sporting clays gun for half that!!!

I asked this seller a lot of questions. He did not answer a single one. If there was a way to report him, I would have. The barrel even showed a mark where the screw-strap was originally fastened. Hard to understand how he can have good feedback with this behavior.

The folks that run GB don't give a flip about lousy sellers. I have lodged complaints in the past and been soundly ignored.

What do you suppose they were for anyway?

Scope mount

Slug gun.

VERY RARE!!!!!!!!!!!

Side mount, sort of like on a shotgun? Now that I look more closely at the full profile picture I can see it.

In it former life this gun was originally a take down H (most likely a 22 HP), that somebody put a scope on. It was after that that it was "reconverted" to a shotgun.

Judging what the gun went for.........I wouldn't be surprissed to see a few more of these "specials" show up on GB in the near future.