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The "1899" to "99" switchover was a marketing name change, not anything to do with the rifles themselves. They continued stamping 1899 on the receiver for a few years, they even continued using 1899 and 99 interchangeably the first year or so in ads and catalogs after introducing the 99 models, the 300 Savage and the 410 barrels (all date to 1921).

So were there "1899's" chambered in 300 Savage? Not as we refer to them amongst ourselves. But in reality the first 5 years of 99's were physically identical to the late 1899's so ???.

But any 300 Savage you pick up will have been catalogued as a model A - G (or later), it won't have been named with Murray's practice of using the telegraph order code. The 1899's were named off telegraph codes, the 99's off of catalog models.