Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Savage Collectors How late was the .303 Savage made?

Yep, I've said before that all we have for 1938'ish and onwards through the war years is shipping dates.

Barring any chance of getting acceptance dates, we kind of have to go with our best guess.

My personal guess is that they were shipping 99's during the war years pretty much as fast as they were accepted from the factory, since they could make so very few of them in between doing all the gov't contract work.

Whole lotta guessing around here lately.

I guess the next new guy that shows up asking questions I'll just make some stuff up and it'll all be good.

It's not like that hasn't been done by some in the past.

I have a 99 that sounds like it must be what you are all calling a "parts gun". It was made for me by Roland Lussier, who at the time was a (or the) manager of production at Savage Arms in aprox 1986. I had a couple of guns worked on by them and when Roland heard that I was robbed he told me to mail him some good wood from Fejen Reinhardt (sp?) and he would build me a new gun. Roland left Savage just prior to the gun being shipped to me, and I damn near did not get it back. He was replaced by a woman who complained that they were not even allowed to sell a gun to a consumer, just to dealers etc. I got the gun in the end for about $185 plus the cost of the wood I sent to them. So my question is, is my gun more or less valuable (on the market,not to me) than a gun made from a production line at Savage? At the time, the 99 was no longer made so they made my gun from parts that were laying around. Similarly, they fixed an old .303 for me at the same general time, putting a new barrel on it. Will have to read the address on that barrel given the comments above. Your comments are appreciated. Bob

With documentation that it did come from Savage, I'm sure it would sell for more than a similar factory line rifle.

Would love to see a picture if you can do it.

I will take a photo when I get home. The cartridge rotor is silver color, not brass. I will post the number also. It is a beautiful gun.