Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Savage Collectors Well.. a possible 1899 saddle ring carbine with barrel band showed up on facebook

I've never met anybody that's seen a barrel band 1899 saddle ring carbine, not Fug, Rick, Ralph, BillR, nobody..

The 1900-1902? catalogs show an 1895 barrel band carbine in the catalog in place of an 1899. Then through 1905/1906 it shows an 1895 carbine without a barrel band. I don't think a correct 1899 carbine is shown until 1907.

But all of the early 1899 saddle ring carbines anybody have seen are correct non-barrel band 1899 carbines. So this, as far as I know, is a first if it's correct.

That forearm and band does look correct for an 1895 carbine.