Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Savage Collectors Even with David Royal's book, this 358 still a mystery to me ???

Well that rifle is almost a repeat of the one I posted here a few back.

C wood (cut checkering)
Stamped 99A
F barrel in 300 savage

This rifle was sold NEW in N.Z. in that confiuration I think it dated to 73 or 74. Like Harry many here thought it had been built up by someone, I don't reckon it was sold as I was told by the seller his father bought new in the box from an Auckland store.

It was an exceptional rifle, lovely balance

Johno

The 99A (reintro) was a straight stock, lever would not fit a pistol grip. All 20" or 22" barrels.

It's a DL .308 rebored for a .358 with C wood and never built by Savage other than an employee.

The forearm tells you all you need to know.

Disagree.

You can get allot more gun that that for 2K.

I agree with Roy, I would like to see a clear stamping of the calibre.

As I said mine was stamped 99A, it had a pistol grip C stock and lever and was sold new that way.

I believe there were a batch of rifles around that number that were made up as either special orders or just using up parts

Johno

Longbeardking wrote:
"You can get allot more gun that that for 2K".


That is exactly what I said when I saw this result of a recent Julia auction lot that sold ...

https://www.proxibid.com/aspr/EXCEP...CASE/28793756/LotDetail.asp?lid=28793756

And there were over a 100 Parker 410s made. "Rare" trumps engraving, gold and fancy wood sometimes.

Savage99F358

JohnO, was the barrel stamped "Model 99A" or" Model 99 Series A"? Not the same.

Rick,

Your testing my memory as I sold the rifle when I had the bad time health wise, a lt a few get away. I can only say to other members " never make decisions like this when you are unwell"

I will try and find some photos if I can locate the old thread.

Johno

Lightfoot,
What is the last name of "Steve" that you mentioned earlier in this post, who ran the Savage Custom Shop, for a period?
Also, any idea what years it was that he ran it?

Just curious. Other than Roland Lussier, I forget the names of the guys I worked with. Ron Coburn had just gotten there, roughly 1986, but not exactly sure. There was a guy there though who was amazing with the wood. I also remember he cut his hand badly and missed some work from slamming a butcher knife into a picnic table, and his hand slid down the blade. Really bad cut he said. Might be this Steve you mentioned.
Thanks,
Bob

He is still around,, Got a Bayo Blade from Him 6 Months Back

IIRC, "Steve" used to own, or run, a gun shop in Inverness, FL, called "The Small Arms Shop". TSAS was an "authorized Savage repair station" that got a lot of "mixed" feedback across the 'net.

I bought a factory jig used to d&t Savage 99s from Steve and it was worth the $$$ paid. I also bought an assortment of miscellaneous bases and rings that was 90% junk and had so much dirt mixed in with the bases, rings, and used screws that it appeared to have been swept up off the shop floor.

EDIT: A quick search shows that TSAS has an active FFL thru 04/01/18.

Steve worked for Savage and left the Company with a pile of 99 parts and set up shop in Florida.

I well remember the ebay auction for the D&T jig and still kick myself for letting you outbid me.

Steve also had a number of the Spanish 99s he tried to make serviceable. I orchestrated the sale of the last 3 of them to friend Ralph (another mistake).

He sold most of the parts to Numrich and was working as a prison guard last I talked to him.

Didn't Steve come out of Savage Services? They handled parts and repairs. They were responsible for creating some of the Never say "never" guns from that period. Seems I remember statements that the right hand (Savage Corp) didn't always know what the left hand (Savage Services) was doing.

I do know that Steve provided us with some older paperwork that provided some very useful info on pre WWII sales.

Rick is this a new model ?? 99NsN LOL

plab

I don't recall 'Savage Services' but I may be confusing that with 'Custom Shop' In any case I thought he was on the Savage payroll until he went to Florida.

Wasn't "Savage Services" the source of the 99Cs with the 1895 75th Anniversary 24" octagon barrels?

I don't know but I would think that small runs would be something they would have done.

Just looked and Savparts hasn't logged in here since 2010.

Plab: Model 99NsN (I'll have to remember that) ...lucky Savage didn't make special runs for distributers like Ruger does now. We might have all kinds of odd ball rifles out there.

Lightfoot: I don't know if Savage Services included the "custom shop" at that time. I would think it might have. Some of the red plastic covered parts manuals state Savage Services on the cover. It would be nice to know more about how they operated.

I'm still waiting for somebody to pop up with a catalog page from Sears or Spiegel or somebody showing a model 99RT.