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That begs the question: just how loose was Savage's inventory control? We constantly see factory rifles built with parts odds and ends from previous models. Was their production control department in the grips of a culture of "three martini lunches"?

One would have to assume that it’s a put together rifle.

Possible... maybe they had a finished and checkered 99T stock, and they sorted through receivers until they found one to fit. Otherwise they'd have had to set up for doing 99T checkering, odd if they'd done it for just a couple guns. Or not?


Last mention of the 99T on catalogs or pricelists I think was on the November, 1940 price list.

By January 1941 and the #75 catalog they only listed the 99G, 99EG, 99R/99RS.
By January 1942 and the #76 catalog they only listed the 99EG, 99R/99RS.

So leftover parts is the logical answer.

Note the info in the auction:

" The forearm is unnumbered, and the butt stock in numbered to a different gun."

Like Wyo1895 said..."parts". Might have been factory, employee or post factory.

But it still has a 22” 300 Savage barrel, only found on T’s and RT’s. So quite possibly a leftover parts gun, but probably a factory put together parts gun.

Just for info, the 1940 vintage 99H in 300 had a 22" barrel. Leftover 99T barrel?

Good catch, I always forget about that one. Possibly same barrel profile as the 99T, but since they were both catalogued I’ll bet they were making them for both models.

Always struck me as odd that they gave the 99F a 24” barrel in 300, but the 99H got a 22”.

Probably because the other 99H's had 20" barrels and were advertised as short and handy. I thought it would be cool if it had a 20" 300 barrel. I have a 300 T with a serial # that is real close to my 300 H. I'll check them after breakfast and see if they look like the same barrel. The barrel band on the H covers the barrel address but this is common with the 20" H's also.

I'll add this back in since this is a catch-all thread for RT's and very late T's and whatnot...

Fug shared this with us 5 years ago. I'd forgotten about it.

A 99RT forearm with a 1935 serial number stamped on it and the letters "EG".

So was this a leftover T forearm finished and checkered for an RT ten years later, or was there a 1935 rifle (99T?) sent back in for restocking when they were doing the RT's and they stamped it's number on the end?

I'd say this shows both are almost surely factory checkering.

So mine at serial number 429,xxx:




Upgraded EG at serial number 436,xxx.