Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Savage Collectors An interesting 284

One of the things that came up on the 30-284 rotor thread was that the 284's didn't have the cross screw in the receiver that holds the rotor because of the c-clip in front of the rotor. Well, I had this early 284 so I checked it out. It has both the cross screw and the c clip.

#10623xx, no LBC. Was told 1963, Davids book says 1964. It has both a cross screw and a c clip, AND, the 284 was the only 99F with a barrel w/o a raised rear sight boss like the other lightweights, so the 284 forearm also did not have the corresponding cutout for it.

So this early 284 has the right receiver for a 284(c clip) and the right forearm for a 284. The barrel does not have Savage markings, only "284" as if a rebarrel. It looks refinished to a flat black. My guess is it has been redone, but was an original 284, but for some reason retains the cross screw even tho it has the c clip slot machined into the receiver. Or, this has both the cross screw and c clip because Savage experimented early on.

Any guesses?

All the above.

Roy, you come up with the damndest things!

Don't stop.

Another neat one. You keep coming up with these odd, interesting 99s; have you considered substituting odd for the fire in your handle (joke intended) .


On the barrel boss, I had a 71 99F .243 that also did not have a boss for rear sight.

That sounds like one of those 'Series A' guns. Was the barrel marked with Model F like earlier ones?

No. late F with the aluminum butt plate.

Geez Wally, that's a can-o-worms, now we're gonna have to check all our post-mil rotary's, to see if they started cutting the C-clip slot in the receiver, AND the cross-screw holes,...whether they started as a 284 or not.

Seek and you shall find.

FWIW, found a pic of 1075228 99F 284 made in 1964, that does not have the cross-screw, so Roy's version was gone by then, but that's still 12k+ Savage rifles later. Here's pics of left and right side of receiver.





Also, it has pressed checkering at this SN.

Roy, David's book shows 1964 starting approximately 1070711; JB Boren, over on the FB site, has recorded his observed low for 1964 at 1069213, so an observation earlier than David has in his book.

#1069952 99DL 284 does not have a cross screw, about 7600 later. That's as close as I can get. I've got a few 1964 rifles in other cartridges but am going to have to take forearms off to check for a machined slot in the receiver on another day.

Here is another later 99F without a barrel boss. This one is a 1969, .300 Savage.

No screw on my 284f 1073942