Remember that nice looking stock for a Savage 99 recently on GB? I paid top $ for it but hey, how often does one find a factory stock, without pistol-grip, with matching forend, for sale, regardless of the price? So I bought it thinking I would put it on my primo 99 serial number 10,000 in .303 Sav. So I am down in my gun-room and guess what? The tank is about an inch shorter on this old model 99. It has the cocking indicator in the top of the breech-bolt, so it may well be a modified 95, but the internet says it is a 99, built in 1899. So I kept the old stock on it, which is not that bad but my plan is shot in the a--. Can anybody tell me when this physical change happened? I was under the impression that no dimensional changes took place since the inception of the 1895 (except for cocking indicator and other minor changes). Thanks.
