Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Savage Collectors What to do with this 1899B made in 1901?(Image heavy_

seeing as its a widow and she is trusting you do yourself proud and pay for a parts rifle 250--300.oo..

if you don't want it I'll take the butt plate ,sights,lever and internals , fore arm, and i'll pay all the shipping.

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The barrel markings are not common,

I brought the stock back to original, as suspected, the previous person to treat this stock used a dark stain to hide repair. The scars are all visible now with a more natural look but it gives it character.

It's back up on the shelf with a "Rust" walnut stain (4 coats) and 3 rubs of Linspeed product, then waxed with Renaissance wax.

Before and afters:










It had an interesting knot in the wood on the stock on one of the sides.(See link below)
https://photos.smugmug.com/1899-B-1901--30-30/i-bkg9dxp/3/6f126e54/L/20171201_155447-L.jpg

that barf red stain can be had from Laurel Mountain. why any one would use it on walnut is beyond me. works fair on fruit woods.
that turned out fantastic .

2nd stock started, this one on a 1940 Savage 99 EG 300 savage.

Citristrip applied for 24 hours. This stock doesn't have the flaws the 30-30 had.It will be TLC to the max.

I love those projects!

Nice project to play with...Are you sure it is a .30-30 though? That is the time period where there has been a lot of confusion concerning whether "Sav .30" was a .303 Savage or a .30-30. Since this may be a gun with non-matching serial numbers, I'd have a chamber cast done, or at least see if a .303 Sav casing (empty of course) will fit into the chamber.

I could be wrong though. Does anyone see anything about the rifle that is a 100% sure thing concerning it being chambered in .30-30?

SAV30 = .30-30. Shouldn't be any confusion.

Serial number is in the correct range for the SAV30 marked barrel.

Ahhh. I stand corrected.

Thanks!