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Thanks for the update on the barrel address. That's an odd place to be stamped X.. but it's just an assembly stamp to the best of our knowledge.

I don't have data showing at what serial the Chicopee barrel address became common after the move. Serial 513xxx is first I have with info.
This ties to the other posting on late R/RS's.

We need to know what the butt plate on 5037xx looks like to determen if the butt is an R or EG. Also, " The forearm itself has no markings, no serial number, etc." so the forearm might have been changed sometime after the factory.

Something like "this receiver is ready for the next step" or some such? Makes sense...




Here's a pic of the butt plate:



5037xx is 4.86" tall, 1.6" wide.

I've had this in my possession since approx '74 when my Grandad first let me use it to hunt whitetail in PA... excepting our short tour in Germany in early '80s. When he first gave it to me, he told me all the reasons why the M99 was better than a Winchester M94 and all the reasons why the .300 Savage was better than the .30-30.

I don't have previous history, but I never knew him to buy "used" stuff so would assume this was purchased new, and likely at Em-Roe's Sporting Goods in downtown Indianapolis. He apparently had no qualms about schnabel foreends, since he also had a Winchester M70 Featherweight with a schnabel... so I doubt he would have changed anything from original... or at least as it was when he got it.

Did the various model letters have additional meaning? R = rifle? RS = rifle with extra sights? E = Excellent? EG = Excellent Gun? H = Hot Stuff? Et cetera?

-Chris

99CD Series A

Serial No. C5150XX

Made in the summer of 1977, Gringo.

Thank you sir.

Maybe this will shed some light on the above questions.

99EG, 250-3000, serial #5027xx, Chidcopee barrel address.

rifles with the model # stamped on the front of the receiver:
99K serial #2986xx, yes. 99G serial # 2909xx doesn't have the model designation on the front of the receiver;
99A serial # 3209xx yes;
99F serial # 3285xx, yes;
99EG serial #3460xx, yes, looking from the muzzle down on the front of the receiver, the E is stamped on the left and the G on the right;
99T serial #3729xx, yes on the left side of the receiver looking down from the muzzle. The K, A, and F have the model designation stamped on the right side.

The 99R has a bigger buttplate and buttstock where the buttplate attaches, here is some info
pre war 99R, serial #3906xx, width at the middle: 1.689", height 5.060"
pre war 99 EG serial #3947xx, width: 1.516", height 4.830, post war EG serial #5027xx is essentially the same;
post war 99R, serial #5739xx, width: 1.703", height 5.066"

Another prewar 99R 377,8xx is 4.99" tall, 1.66" wide.

5037xx is 4.86" tall, 1.6" wide.

-Chris

I think that is a 50's style EG butt stock. That would make since given the serial. How it got the prewar RS forearm and sling is anyone's guess.

Which brings up the question, where would an average guy even find an un-numbered prewar 99R forearm?

Any replacement from another 99 would have had serial numbers.

Only place to get an un-numbered forearm would be from the factory.

Where exactly would the numbers appear of the forestock, if there were any? And what would they look like, how big, etc.?

I've just re-looked with a glass, but... there's some significant oil build-up (probably 'cause I wasn't bright enough to store muzzle down until starting about 20 years ago)... and I'm not seeing/recognizing numbers...

-Chris

They would either be stamped on the end of the buttstock that fits to the receiver, or in the barrel channel. Sometimes they do get hard to see/read.

One with assembly codes on the end:




One with serial number in the channel:

Thanks. Mine's got neither of those, then...

Also, it's only attached toward the front with a single machine screw through a bushing and into a post on the barrel underside. No additional metal stuff like in your lower pic. The other end is like your top pic, so that the smaller round bit fits inside the receiver for support there...

-Chris

The upper pic is of a solid frame forend, the lower of a takedown.

Ah. That 'splains, thanks.

-Chris

I have a 99C Series A 308 serial number E3546XX. Can someone tell me when it was manufactured?

Calhoun, While making the takedown forearm release button, in looking closer, I noticed that the forearm does have some very faint checkering lines in it.If I hold it up to the light at the right angle, you can tell that it was checkered. From the finish, it looks like the checkering was sanded down and refinished... I do believe i have an original set of furniture.

Late 1984. Sorry to be so slow with a reply.

Yep, was almost sure of it when you said the numbers were stamped on it. It'll shoot just fine without the checkering.