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More to come in a couple weeks. 99E, LBC 12M (1961), SN 9698xx, .308 Win, Chicopee barrel, round counter ... does not fit within our know parameters/paradigm.
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More to come in a couple weeks. 99E, LBC 12M (1961), SN 9698xx, .308 Win, Chicopee barrel, round counter ... does not fit within our know parameters/paradigm. It doesn't? Why not?
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I've only heard of the 99Es with pre-60 receiver with round counter and Chicopee barrels being first-year (1960) almost all .300 Savage and a rare .250-3000. This one is .308 WIn, with a very late SN'd pre-60 receiver (9698xx which may be one of the highest we've seen), Chicopee Falls barrel, LBC 12M (1961).
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Does it have a 24" barrel. It's probably another early E but in 308. We need pictures.
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When it gets here I’ll take some decent pics and post. Oddly it has a 20” barrel with the Chicopee stamp. I wonder if Savage cut down a 24” EG or R barrel as some type of early prototyping. I can post a couple crummy seller pics. I will do that from my laptop in few minutes.
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Can't tell for sure but that may be the cheap wood used on the later 99E's. Maybe they had a leftover EG or R receiver and put it on an otherwise regular E. It doesn't have the scnable for end like the 1960 E's. The serial # is about 1000 higher than one of the 1960 rifles. It is 9688xx. There should be some other rifles with serial #'s between those two. Maybe EG's and R's or more franken99's. David
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Looks a lot like the wood used on the other premil 99E's to me, but I might be missing something. David, I have seen 3 of the premil 99E's go by with 969,xxx serial numbers. This is definitely the highest, but only by a few hundred. Does increase the possibility of there being 970,xxx guns out there though.
The 20" Chicopee Falls 308 barrel is very interesting. Doesn't look like a 24" barrel cut down, the ramp would be gone.
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It's hard to tell on the wood, but I think it is walnut. To me the most intesting thing is the .308 Chicopee barrel and 1961 LBC. Anyone seen either of those characteristics before on a pre-mil receiver 99E?
The 1960 catalog showed the 99E with uncheckered EG-shaped wood. But I recall reading that there seems to be more pre-mil receiver Es with 99E-shaped than EG-shaped wood. Anyone have a sense for a rough observed ratio of pre-mil receiver 99 Es with 99E-shape stock/forerm vs. uncheckered EG-shape wood? My other pre-mil E (9689xx) has 99E-shaped waltnut wood with a plastic butt plate.
The 20" .308 Chicopee barrel is definitely a head scratcher; looking forward to getting it in had to take a close look at it.
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According to Murray the 1961 .308 had a 20" barrel. Sounds like a winner to me!
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Pre-mil receiver 1960 E walnut butt stock 1960 E walnut F shaped forearm.. or is it shorter like the 1961 E? (Keith, let us know when received) Serial is at the high end of the 1960 E's 12M LBC (1961) .308 w/20" brl, Chicopee address...20" .308 brl not cataloged till the new 1961 E, Chicopee address standard till late 1961.
My data on post -mil rifles is thin but pretty sure this is the first of this variation we have seen. I do have data on a mid year 1961, .308, 20", blond stock, Chicopee address, serial 1,027,xxx as catologed in 1961.
Appears that at least one of these was made...wonder if there are more?
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Was Savage still making Stevens guns out of Chicopee Falls in 1960? Maybe the answer is that it's a 1960 Chicopee Falls barrel?
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