I might be the one to blame for the "fruit wood" name. I started collecting Winchesters as my dad did. Winchester stocked some of their `92 and `94 carbines in the teen's and they were known to have "fruit wood" stocks, same mystery wood as used by Savage about 10 years later. I carried the term to the Savage Forum many moon's ago and it seems to have stuck.
To my knowledge Savage never advertised nor published that they made the 99-H with any wood but walnut. One of those big Savage, never say "never" items.
