Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Savage Collectors 1899 A

.303 savage. pd 100$, it was sold as a parts gun because of the cracked (and repaired stock) It will usually shoot 5 into 1 1/2" at a 100 yds, and I shot a moose with it a couple years ago











[img]https://i.imgur.com/tg3ceVg.jpg[/img]
[img]https://i.imgur.com/MfL6vaN.jpg[/img]

Nice. It appears the stock bolt is holding. Your picture of the receiver bottom is interesting. I've seen what I would call scratches like those before in older Savages enough to determine they must be part of the factory finish. Can anyone expand on that? That's a nice old 1899! I like the lines of those guns.

The ‘scratches’ are forging striations.

For $100 I wouldn't have walked away from it. You got your moneys worth in moose meat easily!


Lee

The sights are worth more than you paid for the rifle.

Good deal! I’d have been on that like a fat kid on a Reece’s Cup.

Thanks - I never knew that.

"The ‘scratches’ are forging striations."

Also seen on the sides of some of the early 1899's. Blued or not they show through. Lines always run front to rear direction of the receiver.