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One From Down Under #17285552 05/27/22
Joined: May 2005 Posts: 2,499 Victoria, Australia J johno OP Campfire Regular
OP johno Campfire Regular J Joined: May 2005 Posts: 2,499 Victoria, Australia	Have known about this rifle for some years I managed to buy it yesterday, we don't see many clean 22 hp's as the really were work rifles down here. Cost would be about $500.00 USD Johno [img]https://i.imgur.com/PyXY1pC.jpg?2[/img] [img]https://i.imgur.com/NfrWr5h.jpg?1[/img] [img]https://i.imgur.com/lF3yLKg.jpg?1[/img] Sorry you have to click the link I could not sort the posting photos Last edited by johno; 05/27/22.

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Re: One From Down Under johno #17285582 05/27/22
Joined: Mar 2002 Posts: 12,727 So. Kaleefornya L Lightfoot Campfire Outfitter
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Re: One From Down Under johno #17285587 05/27/22
Joined: Mar 2002 Posts: 12,727 So. Kaleefornya L Lightfoot Campfire Outfitter
Lightfoot Campfire Outfitter L Joined: Mar 2002 Posts: 12,727 So. Kaleefornya	Originally Posted by johno Have known about this rifle for some years I managed to buy it yesterday, we don't see many clean 22 hp's as the really were work rifles down here. Cost would be about $500.00 USD Johno [img]https://i.imgur.com/PyXY1pC.jpg?2[/img] [img]https://i.imgur.com/NfrWr5h.jpg?1[/img] [img]https://i.imgur.com/lF3yLKg.jpg?1[/img] Sorry you have to click the link I could not sort the posting photos The ? and number shouldn't be there after the .jpg Did you use the 'insert image address' function under full editor?

Re: One From Down Under johno #17285594 05/27/22
Joined: Jun 2009 Posts: 9,337 Likes: 1 Va 9 99guy Campfire Outfitter
99guy Campfire Outfitter 9 Joined: Jun 2009 Posts: 9,337 Likes: 1 Va	A very nice specimen. No extra "improvements" by the looks of it. "You cannot invade mainland America. There would be a rifle behind every blade of grass" ~Admiral Yamamoto~ When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty. ~Thomas Jefferson~

Re: One From Down Under johno #17285619 05/27/22
Joined: May 2005 Posts: 2,499 Victoria, Australia J johno OP Campfire Regular
OP johno Campfire Regular J Joined: May 2005 Posts: 2,499 Victoria, Australia	Thanks Mike I don't do photos very often so I need to apply myself better She's absolutely all original, 1921 date. The only odd thing is butt & butt plate s/n has the same first three digits but last three differ slightly I would guess this was a factory slip up because parts were not available down here so not a replacement butt and fit & finish are spot on. It sure doesn't have the fine finish like some of the rifles you fellas turn up but it came off a huge cattle station in the Broken Hill area and I must have owned a dozen or so 22 hp's and this is the best ive found here Johno

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Re: One From Down Under johno #17285636 05/27/22
Joined: Mar 2020 Posts: 4,813 NC R Raferman Campfire Tracker
Raferman Campfire Tracker R Joined: Mar 2020 Posts: 4,813 NC	Kill some roos for us with that beauty.

Re: One From Down Under johno #17285714 05/27/22
Joined: Jan 2004 Posts: 12,628 Lyndeborough New Hampshire Longbeardking Campfire Outfitter
Longbeardking Campfire Outfitter Joined: Jan 2004 Posts: 12,628 Lyndeborough New Hampshire	Nice. NRA Endowment Life Member (and proud of it) Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing. Wise men speak because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something. - Plato Deuteronomy 22:5

Re: One From Down Under johno #17285862 05/27/22
Joined: Oct 2005 Posts: 4,003 ON & NB olgrouser Campfire Tracker
olgrouser Campfire Tracker Joined: Oct 2005 Posts: 4,003 ON & NB	Never seen a "Roo" rifle look that good after a hundred years! "Rhetoric is no substitute for reality." -Thomas Sowell

Re: One From Down Under johno #17285909 05/27/22
Joined: May 2005 Posts: 2,499 Victoria, Australia J johno OP Campfire Regular
OP johno Campfire Regular J Joined: May 2005 Posts: 2,499 Victoria, Australia	A little more to the story, the bloke I got it from had owned for a number of years he got it from the old station hand who said it had been in his family over 60 years I can't track it back any further as he has passed on. Guess it says a lot for the original owner family who took good care of it, its certainly been used not much case left on the lever its going sit nicely with an early Australian pocket knife I picked up around the same vintage, will get a photo of the knife up also it came from a clearing sale on one of the oldest properties in this area Johno

Re: One From Down Under johno #17286096 05/27/22
Joined: Nov 2013 Posts: 3,495 Sauk City, WI Southern_WI_Savage Campfire Tracker
Southern_WI_Savage Campfire Tracker Joined: Nov 2013 Posts: 3,495 Sauk City, WI	Originally Posted by johno Thanks Mike I don't do photos very often so I need to apply myself better She's absolutely all original, 1921 date. The only odd thing is butt & butt plate s/n has the same first three digits but last three differ slightly I would guess this was a factory slip up because parts were not available down here so not a replacement butt and fit & finish are spot on. It sure doesn't have the fine finish like some of the rifles you fellas turn up but it came off a huge cattle station in the Broken Hill area and I must have owned a dozen or so 22 hp's and this is the best ive found here Johno Nice rifle! Sounds like late 1899H production. What is the serial number? The close but mis-matched butt/plate s.n.’s are probably the way it left the factory. "Every day above ground is a good day."

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Re: One From Down Under johno #17286120 05/27/22
Joined: Nov 2005 Posts: 23,108 Annapolis, Md. G gnoahhh Campfire Ranger
gnoahhh Campfire Ranger G Joined: Nov 2005 Posts: 23,108 Annapolis, Md.	Neat! The old Cobber who bought it new could've been an ANZAC vet who's son could've been a Digger at Tobruk! (Sorry, just my imagination running off the track into the weeds.) Let us know how it shoots. "You can lead a man to logic, but you cannot make him think." Joe Harz "Always certain, often right." Keith McCafferty

Re: One From Down Under johno #17286179 05/27/22
Joined: May 2011 Posts: 56,325 Likes: 9 Oregon Fireball2 Campfire Kahuna
Fireball2 Campfire Kahuna Joined: May 2011 Posts: 56,325 Likes: 9 Oregon	That's just bully old boy! Beauty! _______________________________________________________ An 8 dollar driveway boy living in a T-111 shack LOL

Re: One From Down Under johno #17286200 05/27/22
Joined: May 2005 Posts: 2,499 Victoria, Australia J johno OP Campfire Regular
OP johno Campfire Regular J Joined: May 2005 Posts: 2,499 Victoria, Australia	S/n on receiver & forend is 231187 s/n on butt & butt plate 231443 The old story fellas " if only that rifle could talk" back in those days on the big stations most firearms were by the property owner or company, wages were small so not a lot of the station hands could afford a nice rifle I guess that is why most of the rifles ive seen were rough, Kiwi would say the same thing about NZ rifles they lived hard lives Its good to let the imagination have free rein Garry, its like the old loggers grandfathers axe all original only two new heads and four new handle but it was Pa's lol Johno

Re: One From Down Under johno #17286359 05/27/22
Joined: Mar 2002 Posts: 14,596 N E Kansas Rick99 Campfire Outfitter
Rick99 Campfire Outfitter Joined: Mar 2002 Posts: 14,596 N E Kansas	Nice rifle JohnO. Is the receiver ring stamped MODEL 1899 or not? It is in that transition range. Savage...never say "never". Rick... Join the NRA...together we stand, divided we fall!

Re: One From Down Under johno #17286367 05/27/22
Joined: Aug 2005 Posts: 43,773 Likes: 1 Eastern Nebraska Calhoun Campfire 'Bwana
Calhoun Campfire 'Bwana Joined: Aug 2005 Posts: 43,773 Likes: 1 Eastern Nebraska	Nice one, johno! By serial number, that's probably in the July-August of 1920 timeframe if the rifle was finished on time. So a late 1899H. “The Savage 99 Pocket Reference”. All models and variations of 1895’s, 1899’s and 99’s covered. Also dates, checkering, engraving.. Find at www.savagelevers.com

Re: One From Down Under johno #17286410 05/27/22
Joined: May 2005 Posts: 2,499 Victoria, Australia J johno OP Campfire Regular
OP johno Campfire Regular J Joined: May 2005 Posts: 2,499 Victoria, Australia	Rick, receiver ring has no stamp Rory its a full take down thread also, and indexes exactly as it should Went through a bad time health wise awhile back and sold all my 99's including my checkered straight stock F 250-3000, still makes feel bad. So I am happy to once again be back in the game even in a small way. Just had a set of dies given to my by a friend i'd helped out a long time ago so now to find brass & projectiles Johno

Re: One From Down Under johno #17286421 05/27/22
Joined: Aug 2005 Posts: 43,773 Likes: 1 Eastern Nebraska Calhoun Campfire 'Bwana
Calhoun Campfire 'Bwana Joined: Aug 2005 Posts: 43,773 Likes: 1 Eastern Nebraska	Glad you're doing better! The quarter turn takedown ended in August, 1919 so your's is right. “The Savage 99 Pocket Reference”. All models and variations of 1895’s, 1899’s and 99’s covered. Also dates, checkering, engraving.. Find at www.savagelevers.com

Re: One From Down Under johno #17286426 05/27/22
Joined: Sep 2009 Posts: 7,304 Northern California S S99VG Campfire Tracker
S99VG Campfire Tracker S Joined: Sep 2009 Posts: 7,304 Northern California	That's a nice rifle. Ya know, it's not the Fancy Dan engraved 99s that trip my trigger. My pulse rate goes up when I see an honest working man's rifle like yours in fantastic shape. It's guns like these that probably meant the most to their owners and, as far as I am concerned, the others were just "show off" pieces. Thanks for posting! "The universal aptitude for ineptitude makes any human accomplishment an incredible miracle." John Stapp - "Stapp's Law" "Klaatu barada nikto"

Re: One From Down Under johno #17286563 05/28/22
Joined: May 2005 Posts: 2,499 Victoria, Australia J johno OP Campfire Regular
OP johno Campfire Regular J Joined: May 2005 Posts: 2,499 Victoria, Australia	I thought this rifle would be a first year F according to Murray's H ended 1919 Johno

Re: One From Down Under johno #17286595 05/28/22
Joined: Oct 2003 Posts: 843 Appalachia Rakkasan Campfire Regular
Rakkasan Campfire Regular Joined: Oct 2003 Posts: 843 Appalachia	Glad to hear that you're feeling better Johno! Nice rifle too! Doug An armed society is a polite society.

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