Provenance is cool. At $75 bucks it's just not worth lettering every rifle you have.
If you have a number of 99's to get info on, it's far cheaper now than it has been since probably the 90's.
I'm getting serial number information on 62 guns for about $8 apiece. Callahan was $15 when I bought my first 99.
Become a member of the Cody museum under $250 firearm membership. That gives you 10 searches & 2 letters - average $20 apiece. Already as cheap as Callahan was doing it when he retired.
Buy a packet of more searches, $5 to $7 a search depending on how many you buy. A search is the same info as a letter, you just have to print it off yourself.
