|
Joined: Jul 2011
Posts: 15
New Member
|
OP
New Member
Joined: Jul 2011
Posts: 15 |
I cannot identify the LBC on this rifle, but the serial number is 11279XX. The rifle is a 99F (receiver marked 99M) and is a 284 Winchester. Any help in identifying the year of manufacture would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance for any help!
|
|
|
|
Joined: Aug 2005
Posts: 43,731
Campfire 'Bwana
|
Campfire 'Bwana
Joined: Aug 2005
Posts: 43,731 |
If the barrel is stamped 99M, it's likely a 99DL with a monte carlo stock. If it's not a monte carlo stock, then it might be a 99F (a few with 99M stamps have been seen). Rifle should date to 1966. Nice gun! This one's a few months later than yours:
“ The Savage 99 Pocket Reference”. All models and variations of 1895’s, 1899’s and 99’s covered. Also dates, checkering, engraving.. Find at www.savagelevers.com
|
|
|
|
Joined: Nov 2005
Posts: 23,068
Campfire Ranger
|
Campfire Ranger
Joined: Nov 2005
Posts: 23,068 |
Oh my! Pressed checkering, gold trigger, and white line spacers. I hope you wear bell bottoms and love beads when you take it shooting!
"You can lead a man to logic, but you cannot make him think." Joe Harz "Always certain, often right." Keith McCafferty
|
|
|
|
Joined: Aug 2005
Posts: 43,731
Campfire 'Bwana
|
Campfire 'Bwana
Joined: Aug 2005
Posts: 43,731 |
Oh my! Pressed checkering, gold trigger, and white line spacers. I hope you wear bell bottoms and love beads when you take it shooting! It ain't got no white line spacers! Aluminum buttplate... I mean, come on. And '66 was too early for bell bottoms, weren't it? I was still sporting a bowl cut and watching Dark Shadows and Mr. Rogers while the older siblings went to school, so i don't remember. I did get a 99 in once with white line spacers that had been added. Looked like they'd been cut from an old detergent bottle or something. Spacers went in the trash...
“ The Savage 99 Pocket Reference”. All models and variations of 1895’s, 1899’s and 99’s covered. Also dates, checkering, engraving.. Find at www.savagelevers.com
|
|
|
|
Joined: Jul 2011
Posts: 15
New Member
|
OP
New Member
Joined: Jul 2011
Posts: 15 |
Thanks very much for the information. I think it is a model 99F; pressed checkering, aluminum butt plate, gold trigger, engine-turned (jeweled) bolt, and does not have a Monte Carlo stock or white line spacers. Someone has added a sling swivel to the butt stock and another to the barrel. It's used but still has a lot of case color on the lever and the blue looks pretty good, too.
Thanks again! I wish there was a good listing of serial numbers and dates...
|
|
|
|
Joined: Jul 2011
Posts: 15
New Member
|
OP
New Member
Joined: Jul 2011
Posts: 15 |
Calhoun: By the way...that is a very nice rifle you have...
Thanks again!
|
|
|
|
Joined: Aug 2017
Posts: 832
Campfire Regular
|
Campfire Regular
Joined: Aug 2017
Posts: 832 |
That is a mighty beautiful rifle! I can't get over how accurate these rifles are, or maybe I'm just having consecutive good days at the range! I've shot the .303, .300 savages, the .30-30 and the .308. All nice groups!
|
|
|
|
Joined: Apr 2013
Posts: 14,038
Campfire Outfitter
|
Campfire Outfitter
Joined: Apr 2013
Posts: 14,038 |
the consolidation of the states into one vast republic, sure to be aggressive abroad and despotic at home, will be the certain precursor of that ruin which has overwhelmed all those that have preceded. Robert E Lee ~Molɔ̀ːn Labé Skýla~
|
|
|
|
Joined: Dec 2008
Posts: 5,192
Campfire Tracker
|
Campfire Tracker
Joined: Dec 2008
Posts: 5,192 |
Gnoahhh Think I still have the bell bottoms in the closet. You hurt my little feelers GW Have that one's twin for trade, same caliber and year. Interested in 1950's F or R in 250-3000. GW
If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared. MACHIAVELLI
|
|
|
|
Joined: Aug 2005
Posts: 43,731
Campfire 'Bwana
|
Campfire 'Bwana
Joined: Aug 2005
Posts: 43,731 |
“ The Savage 99 Pocket Reference”. All models and variations of 1895’s, 1899’s and 99’s covered. Also dates, checkering, engraving.. Find at www.savagelevers.com
|
|
|
|
Joined: Jul 2011
Posts: 15
New Member
|
OP
New Member
Joined: Jul 2011
Posts: 15 |
That's the markings I am looking at! Talk about seller's remorse...had an 1895 (marked JM under the forestock) 303, a model B 300, G 250-3000, several Fs (250-3000, 300), and a C (308)...but currently have none. Talk about being deprived!
|
|
|
|
Joined: Aug 2017
Posts: 832
Campfire Regular
|
Campfire Regular
Joined: Aug 2017
Posts: 832 |
Can someone tell me the year of a Savage 99F in .284 with SN 248651 ?
Last edited by Sportsdad60; 09/21/17.
|
|
|
|
Joined: Dec 2014
Posts: 707
Campfire Regular
|
Campfire Regular
Joined: Dec 2014
Posts: 707 |
#248651 would be about 1922. Ain't now way Savage was making Model 99s in .284 in 1922!
|
|
|
|
Joined: Aug 2005
Posts: 43,731
Campfire 'Bwana
|
Campfire 'Bwana
Joined: Aug 2005
Posts: 43,731 |
Should be a letter in front of that. A or B?
“ The Savage 99 Pocket Reference”. All models and variations of 1895’s, 1899’s and 99’s covered. Also dates, checkering, engraving.. Find at www.savagelevers.com
|
|
|
|
Joined: Aug 2017
Posts: 832
Campfire Regular
|
Campfire Regular
Joined: Aug 2017
Posts: 832 |
I don't have the rifle here but I will check. If memory serves me, it was a B...so 1950?
|
|
|
|
Joined: Jul 2011
Posts: 15
New Member
|
OP
New Member
Joined: Jul 2011
Posts: 15 |
The 284 Winchester was not introduced until 1963.
|
|
|
|
Joined: May 2011
Posts: 56,257
Campfire Kahuna
|
Campfire Kahuna
Joined: May 2011
Posts: 56,257 |
I don't have the rifle here but I will check. If memory serves me, it was a B...so 1950? B series serial number, not to be confused with the lever boss code.
_______________________________________________________ An 8 dollar driveway boy living in a T-111 shack
LOL
|
|
|
|
Joined: Aug 2017
Posts: 832
Campfire Regular
|
Campfire Regular
Joined: Aug 2017
Posts: 832 |
Thanks guys. It may be a parts gun. I'll report back.
|
|
|
|
Joined: Aug 2005
Posts: 43,731
Campfire 'Bwana
|
Campfire 'Bwana
Joined: Aug 2005
Posts: 43,731 |
B248xxx would be very early 1973.
From 1895 to 1968, Savage used numeric serial numbers for the 99's that applied only to the 99's. You could have a Savage 110 from 1959 with the same serial number as a Savage 1899 from 1902. In 1969 due to the Gun Control Act, Savage could no longer put the same serial number on two different firearms. So they started a new series with a starting A prefix, and went to B when they'd sold a million of them, and then C, and then D, etc. Those numbers are split between all firearms made by Savage. So A123456 might be a 99C, and A123457 might be a model 24.
“ The Savage 99 Pocket Reference”. All models and variations of 1895’s, 1899’s and 99’s covered. Also dates, checkering, engraving.. Find at www.savagelevers.com
|
|
|
|
119 members (69sportfury, 300jimmy, 338reddog, 2500HD, 3333vl, 12 invisible),
1,285
guests, and
852
robots. |
Key:
Admin,
Global Mod,
Mod
|
|
Forums81
Topics1,190,718
Posts18,457,126
Members73,909
|
Most Online11,491 Jul 7th, 2023
|
|
|
|