Originally Posted by Ranger4444
I'm a little unclear what your meant by "sending out as R's for those couple of years."

I thought you were leaning toward mine being an RS? Or did they not catalog an RS in 1948? So this might be the 1948 version of an R, instead? Or...?

-Chris

Savage catalogued both the 99R and 99RS from 1932 to 1959. But there's a few post-WW2 years where we see only 99EG's - and truthfully we usually say they made no 99R/99RS's for those years.

Now.. yours might just be using up a leftover stock. But, it's the highest serial number prewar style 99R/99RS that I think I have data on. And would point toward Savage making the prewar style 99R/99RS's for any sales rather than the postwar 99R/99RS's that early.

And when I said 99R above, I meant both 99R/99RS. The 99RS is just a 99R with a few accessories - the stock style is the same.

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