Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Savage Collectors OK, so let's pretend I'm an f'n idiot

There is a GREAT chance we'll be there I need to check the date. I am going on a coyote hunt with my son on the 18th, I just checked the date looks like the weekend including Jan 26th. My answer is yes we will be there.

I ALWAYS get excited when I buy a Savage I've been looking for.. YOU know that.

Looks like you edited something out of this post. Was it the numbered vs. coding/ At any rate the wood is numbered to the metal, no codes. The butt plate has nothing. Must be an add on LOL LOL LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

No I just type so fast I make lots of mistake and edit them out so I don't look like an even bigger idiot than normal.

I was curious how many versions of the fancy pants guns there were. East and a west for each model?

I think the East and West is a DE, only. (Correct me if wrong)

Steve, congrat's. Variations in the Savage levers is extensive. Allowing one to venture into new area of collecting and learning is what I like most.

David, we need someone to pull the PE/DE story together. We have examples of the variations but I think we still lack the way it all came together. Why the differences within each model? What serial ranges go with which changes? A lot a variation for a small production run. John Allen's collection was close to, if not complete, for variations. Good place to start.

CE's...1000 or 1800 made? I have no CE serials in my data other than the one I own and it is less than 1000 serial. Does anyone have a CE with a serial over 900 (957 made is one number I have heard from years back)?

65x here

East and West is PE

99DE





99PE

My serial number on my CE is AS00XX. David says Coburn told him that 1800 were made. My assumption is AS is for Arthur Savage.

Always heard the CE's were limited to 1000. Wouldn't be surprised if it fell slightly short of that.

Rick, I saw SN 905 for sale on an auction.

Page 108 of Royal's book. Some of it is difficult to read, but it is there if you look. Apparently not much interest in these.

Interesting then that I can google and find 20 CE's and serial numbers, and each and every one falls in the bottom 50% of guns that were made. And none fall above that. Mathematically possible, but odd.

Also odd that it's almost exactly the same number of 99C's that we think were made in Spain.

All most of us know is what we read and MOST of what we read is provided to the book via a myriad of suppliers.

I'm not saying anything is incorrect, it's just an odd datapoint. I'm a firm believer in "trust, but verify".

Something to gather data on. I'd be surprised if Ron Coburn was that far off on something pretty recent.

So on a quick google on Centennial Edition 99's, I find these serial numbers:
#12
#35
#39
#62
#6x
#271
#369
#515
#516
#590
#65x
#802
#826
#905
#954

My CE is 516.

#39 here...

Updated my list. Thx guys.

0393 here

My # is 0026 for the CE

Mine is 470. Ron's is really low. I'll have to dig into my notes later to try to find it.