Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Savage Collectors Savage 99 serial numbers

1920

1899-A

Rock Mountain, Savage 22B

My beloved Savage 99 EG, serial number 7428xx...just checking on the age. Trigger boss letter code is woefully gone-- all that can be discerned is the slightest "C" shape of the oval and a faint numeral "1." So that doesn't seem like much help.

From its heritage as a family piece, I'd guess it's from early to mid 50's. In any case, a great gun! Folding Lyman rear sight, Lyman tang sight, and a Leupold M8-4x scope on a swing mount. (Of all these, I generally use the tang mount for these old eyes. But nice to have them all zeroed in. .300 Savage.

Seems like there's always been venison in the freezer since I took over its ownership in 1984. It once had an ancient leather sling added by my grandfather. Apparently he was better suited to keeping it quiet while drawing down on a near deer. Spooked a big buck that way years ago, and I think that sling is still out in the Northern Michigan woods to this day.

Nice to have found your site. I'll shut up now!

1954

Thank you, Rick. Just about what I thought.

What year would a 99 with a serial 10798xx be? It’s a 284, new to me, like new except for a pad.

Thank you in advance

If you look on the front of the lever above the serial number, you should see an oval stamp with 1 or 2 numbers followed by a letter. The letter indicates the year. By my data, your rifle should be a 1964 and the letter should be an "R".

Cut checkering, or pressed checkering?

Thank you, looks cut to me, will look better when I get home and for the stamps.

It seems too high for cut checkering, I've got one very near that one. Should be pressed "double diamond" checkering. The double diamond checkering was only used on 99F's and 99DL's for a year, and is fairly popular. But never say never with Savage.

It looked cut, but it wasn’t Al Biesen quality of checkering. I hate to ask, but what difference does it make if it’s cut or pressed? I took a couple of quick pics last night. I’d post them, but Postimage must be down.

99's in 284 that are cut checkered are very, very few and far between. The 284's were introduced right before the switch to the double diamond checkering. So from a collector point of view, a cut checkered 99F or 99DL in 284 is one of those rare guns you'd like to add to your collection.

The double diamond checkered rifles are also popular, but more common than the cut checkered.

Thank you,

Damn shame a pad was added.

Mine that is very close to yours is sitting a few feet away.. with a pad. It's a shame.

It was on GunBroker for four or five days early last week, 1800 opening bid, buy it now for 2400. It didn’t get a bid until the last day of 1800.00. I probably paid too much, but wanted it mostly because it had been shot little, less than a box of shells. The seller claimed it had been sitting in his safe since 1966. I’m gonna compare it to the other F’s I have. What kind of buttplate came on the rifle, maybe they added a pad, didn’t cut the stock. I guess that would be too cool to be true. Are stocks numbered to the rifle??

Thanks again for all the information, 99’s keep sneaking in my house!!! Roy warned me!!!

At that point they didn't stamp serial numbers on the different parts, but they were stamping an assembly code on them. So the same code would be on the buttstock (probably missing if it was cut for a recoil pad), on the forearm, and above the lever on the left side (have to remove buttstock to see it). A 99F at that time would have had a steel buttplate. If the end of the buttstock is straight where the pad is attached, it was cut, the steel buttplate would have been slightly curved.

It looks like it’s stamped 10R, stock is straight, so it’s been cut.

Jjust looked.. that is cut checkered. Rare bird.

Thank you, maybe I didn’t get taken too bad, course nobody strong armed me.

Wish I'd known you were looking, I'm looking to sell the one I have. It's a 99DL, not cut checkered but it does have a monte carlo stock and factory studs.

Odd.. I just looked and mine is a lower serial number than yours. If you could, would you verify the serial number on yours? Mine is one of the first double diamond checkered ones and is 1,075,2xx. The cut checkering seems to have ended right at 1,075,000 - give or take a hundred.

I looked again. 10798xx

Thanks again for the help.

One for our data. They found an earlier stock set for it apparently.