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Iv seen these before But WHY a 50s 99 EG Factory D&T on top, But with a Williams side mount D&T into it! Not a Flip down either! rifle in about 89% has ! 300 savage some nice figure in the walnut stocks too! Price $625.00 it would have come home with me but for the side mount!

Because the man didn't have a base to fit the factory D&T

But he did have a Williams side mount and a drill press in his garage.

Duh....

Yeah, I see that on F’s and R’s and it just hurts to see. Like the Redfield 102L receiver sights when a 70 was easily added.

Yup, I nearly shed tears over a post war .250 R that had been desecrated in exactly the same way.

Some folks just don't have the brains God gave a crowbar.

Yep. I gotta ask though, can you squint under the scope and sort of use the open sights with a scope mounted in a Williams side mount? If so, maybe that's why. Still kind of dumb though IMO.

Who gun was it??????? Whoever did it did it because they wanted it that way.

I see on this site day after day people who screw up good guns an all they get IS WELL DONE YOU SCREWED UP ANOTHER

GUN so to the person who put the side mount on this gun hope your happy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! YOU SCREWED UP ANOTHER GUN!!

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There are guns in existence that are already screwed up. Those guns are fair game. Nothing is being desecrated whatsoever.

My go to 250 R, LBC B, had a side mount on it. I paid $167 for it a farm and equipment auction. Now has my Dads Redfield 2X7 on it. Brought home lots of deer and a couple pigs. It was my first 99. Got it in the mid 80’s.

"Collectors" should get a warm fuzzy feeling every time they see a frahuntzed 99. It just means their high condition originals just got more valuable.

The williams mount is a good one, if I didnt have a pre war R in 300sav. I still may have bought! its a fine looking EG I almost could see , if it was a flip to the side mount so he could use the iron sights, but alas it wasnt! Lol hadnt posted in awhile, fig id let you guys know I was still Alive!

Those things probably happened 60 to 70 years ago to guns that at the time cost in the neighborhood of $100.00 or so. The owners were just thinking of being able to carry a scope sighted ‘99 for the upcoming deer season. What we’d be thinking about the extra holes in 2019 didn’t even cross their mind.

They may be more valuable but which one of you are willing to spend what it takes to buy one? Everyone seems to look for a "bargain".

That’s what I figured about mine. A guy bought the new R. The sales clerk asked if he wanted to put a scope and mounts on it? He bout had a stroke when the clerk told him how much. He went back to his car and brought back his old 99, said he was going to sell it, how much to use the old scope? Clerk said d/t, use the old screws, six bucks. The rest is history.

I'm pretty sure you're not the only guy around here willing to spend good money for a Savage. If you think you are you are in for a surprise.

As an alternative to the semi-bitter rebuttal I originally typed, I'll say this instead: yes, we who haven't the means to buy nothing but the very best, or who do have the means but prefer not to spend vast amounts in one narrow field of endeavor, take umbrage with elitist attitudes like that.

A plumber I worked with was an older man who used iron sights all his life. Getting older with his eyesight failing he scoped his hunting rifle, a Savage 99 in 250/3000. I visited him and saw his rifle. He had arch welded a scope base for a Remington 700 to the top of the reciever, with 6011 rod. He also showed me several other rifles with welded on scope bases.

Just killed the heat treatment on those receivers.

That's the way it was back then. Your rifle was a "tool". It put food on the table and wasn't thought of as an investment. As previously stated on this thread and many past threads, nobody in the early 20th century who bought a rifle said "I'm buying this cause in 80 years it will be worth a pretty penny".