Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Savage Collectors Any luck on Savage 99 restorations?

Check out the wood on that rifle.

Outstanding grain, work and finish.

Dare I say...spectacular?

Metal work ain't bad either.

Edit:

As everybody that has read any of my posts knows, I am personally not a big fan of guns that have been "worked on"

But if you have to "work on one", take a lesson from this one. Very tastefully done.

There are those that will fit a barrel and duplicate the original markings. If you go that route I'd insist that who ever does the work stamps the underside of the barrel "rebarreled by...." or some such so as to indicate that its not the original barrel. Reworking a rifle for personal reasons is one thing but you have to be ensured that if for some reason the rifle gets out of your family's hands its not able to be passed off as original when its not. Its not that hard to redo a rifle for personal satisfaction while still ensuring that it won't thought of as a counterfeit or an attempt to pass it off as an original. JMOOMV.

Still trying to get through all the junk to get to the 303 barrels. Lots of junk. Could take a while.

Thanks, just let me know.

I have used them to repair a cracked stock on a 99 and would highly recommend them.

This one has been rebarreled to 25-35. I did not do the work though, I found it that way. The checkering was also embellished as well.

It shoots real nice.