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Proud of ya, Rory! I have booksellers across Antarctica lined up.

I’d like one Rory. Add me to the list (if your keeping one).

Oooh... draft copies in hand! Don't harass me about the cover, I threw something together in 15 minutes just to get the draft copies printed. Though actually.. I'm kind of liking it.

And the pictures look FAR better than I expected. The print quality is amazing. If anything, I might have to reduce exposure on a few pictures that are too bright.

Excellent job Rory. I'm in for a couple

What is the width, length and thickness.

4 1/4" x 6 7/8" x 3/8"

Some of the special grade pictures are pretty dark. I'll see what I can do about improving those.

Murray's is 6x9x3/8" so about 3/4 the size. Sounds about right.

6" x 9" is "trade" size, pretty much the default and very common. I was thinking just slightly larger than trade for my full book, but since I'm doing this small version I might make the full book even a bit larger. We'll see.

Looking good !!!! i'll only need a half dozen

I'm in for two.

Could I, please, get two signed copies, Rory?

under my name 152 , then 153 154,154 with no names just signed by u thanks

The end is near... thank goodness!

Few fixes this weekend, review latest data for start/end dates per year, then upload and print off another draft.. hopefully it'll be good and ready by end of the month. If I need to make fixes after seeing the draft, probably mid-August.

140 pages, not counting the cover. Photographs aren't all that great, but it has the best I could do on the small format.

For my two cents, I like your "threw something together in 15 minutes" cover.........looks Savage 99, rustic, huntin', and real nice!!! Ifin' you're taking a poll, I for it.

I'd like two copies.

Proof reading.. sucks, but so necessary. Almost invented a 250-30000 cartridge for a dozen models.

I think I'd want a recoil pad for that.. maybe a vehicle mount.

It's... done.

Hopefully.

Final draft copies ordered. Unless there's a serious flaw, should be available to order online in a few weeks. Might be 5-6 weeks before I have any in hand to ship out.

I think I see drinking in my future tonight. A lot of sleep after that..

The pictures are what they are. At this small format, there won't be a lot of detail in many. But better than nothing, and most will be "okay". Buy it for the data. Then we can start improving on that, especially for postmils.

Nice Rory, I'm I'm for one signed!

That would be hard on barrels!

I think the final count is 142 significant variations of 58 different models.

That's not counting things like the 800,000 rifles as a variation, different calibers as variations, different barrel lengths as variations, or counting very small groups of transition rifles, late rifles with a mixture of early model features, etc. So the blued DE's got a mention, but there weren't enough made to become a 'variation'. On the other hand, a few hundred octagon barreled 99C's were enough to be a variation.

142 production variations that were catalogued or made in significant numbers.

That's a lot of variations... wonder if we'll find more postmil variations?

PS: A few instances, like the 1927-1928 group of 99's that were made with a mirror blue, could be argued that they should be a separate variation. I noted the change, but in the end didn't make them a separate variation. I'd love to see the ledger entries for some of those..