The engraving of the 99CE is kind of a simplified version of the 99PE engraving. To me it's a bit of a stretch to say the CE evolved from the PE since it's a detachable magazine rifle. On the other hand the 99DE and 99PE do look like embellished 99DL's. This is also true of the Falcon, O'Conner and my rifle pictured above. Savage also used the PE basic design for the detachable magazine engraving prototype produced in the 1970's. I has the deer on the bottom of the magazine similar to the 99DE. I posted pics of it on here after I got it from Ralph McElwain in 2020.
The bottom line is that Savage kept using the basic design of the PE engraving for rifles produced in the 1960's, 1970's and 1996.
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