I put this one on hold today. It's a little rough metal wise and the wood has a small crack behind the tang and the forearm is missing a little wood. The bore looks really nice. I'll try to get some more pic's later in the the week. 1899 SRC 25-35.

not easy to find even in rough shape

norm

I'll bet most of us have seen rougher. Good job.

I have records on 102 25-35s and 11 including this one are SRCs. Not easy to find in any condition.
Nice one!
BillR

Man I like it! been looking for one like that to put my birdseye maple stock on!

Grab the rare ones when you find them, at least until you find a nicer one to trade up to.

Good job.

Thanks for the comments.

grey, yes...rat? NO!

Obviously, a pawn shop find. Got a lot of nice ones at pawn shops.

Great job...

green with envy

me too

What is the lettering above the serial#?

It looks like someone put a second serial# on it.

I believe Mad Dog has one of these little devils

Yep, it and an 1895 are the only two guns that made it over from your house.

The 1899 saddlering carbine that i have in 25-35 was redone and i had to drive 300 miles 1 way to get it, paid $500 for it years ago and was happy !!!! the only one i have come across in this area. I have seen 4 in 38-55 in the area . I have yet to find one locally in 32-40!

The only one iv see for sale was at a gun show it had a full lenth Malcome scope on it! as I was trying to fig a way to buy it, was gone before i got back with the cash!

this is not your ordnary pawn shop. It's more of a gun shop/pawn The owner travels all over the state to gun shows and has for a long time. The 1899 .303 I bought first was in his personal safe in the back room. He had 4 savage 99 in it and sold me .the 303 he has had for 15years. He has 3 more 99's on the racks for sale. Funny thing about this SRC is I went in just to look at what 99's he has on the racks and he ask which one I wanted next and I told him I was trying to figure out what caliber I wanted. He said I've got a beater 25-35 SRC in the back somewhere. We liked to have not found it buried in the racks of guns. We carried it out front in better light and he shot me a price and I said put it on hold. It will not win any beauty contest. I hope to get it home Friday.

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder - and you've got a desirable old beauty coming home with you.

Congrats!

Bronze wool and Kroil and a LITTLE elbow grease and you'll have a presentable, shootable, NEAT little Savage. Bravo!

And if you handload, you can load much better bullets in the 99 than a W--------r or M----n; with modern bullets and powder it's a whole different cartridge! And a WHOLE lot purtier than my G2.....

HERE IT IS. LOOK LIKE SOMEONE BEAT ON IT AT ONE TIME. ANY IDEAS ON THE SECOND SERIAL#?






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H107030?

Not a SSN, not a phone number that I recognize... No clue.

Drivers license - maybe?

Thanks for the edit work.

One I had long ago

http://www.24hourcampfire.com/ubbthreads/ubbthreads.php/topics/2693306/New_to_me_1899#Post2693306

That is a nice one ctw!

Think you're right about it being a drivers license number Mike. Used to be fairly common where I grew up for hunters to scratch their drivers license number somewhere on their probably only hunting rifle in case it got stolen.

Thanks for the comment guys. I will most likely order a letter for the rifle to find out the history of it. A drivers licence number makes the most sense. Thanks for the info.

Robert

I popped the butt plate and forearm off to check the numbers today. The forearm is a match and I'm not sure about the butt and plate, but the match each other. They are both marked "56".

Lack of a full serial number can indicate a factory replacement (we think). Reasonable chance a letter would come back with a note that there's a work order for unspecified work against it.

...or sent out to the owner or a gun shop doing the repair. It appears to be a factory replacement butt stock and plate.

Considering what a pain it is to properly fit a buttstock, did Savage just send them out to the owner? Forearm I could see, but I'd think they'd want the gun in to fit a buttstock.

I plan on requesting letters for both my 1899's this week. Is Mr. Callahan's current address listed on the shooters forum?


Thanks,
Robert

It should be but here it is again: J.T. Callahan, Savage Historian, P.O. Box82, Southampton, Ma.01073. Good luck, that's a neat carbine.

THANKS!

It's under the thread "Misc. Good Info" that's pinned towards the top of this forum.

OK THANKS!