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Or your's was not. Another Savage mystery until we round up every one with the T7 mount and compare them.

Found 4 T7 pics on the net.









None look exactly the same.

Stick around? I doubt it. Bubble gum crowd will be playing Tyler Swift in the background any minute now. Can't take that. Seems like a pretty egotistical group of wanna be's bowing to the altar of someone who owes EVERYTHING to Doug, yet his name doesn't appear to be ever mentioned here anymore. Sad. The generation of burn the books, tear down the statues, screw history, cancel culture, cite wikapedia, and I got mine. Not how I roll. Sorry. Merry Christmas to the "old guys on the low down"

Not to split hairs but it's Taylor Swift.

Just sayin...

Is there a workout video?

My R? RS? was made in 42. Barrel bottom stamped 2. Receiver front: 8. Forearm front, butt plate and rear of stock stampings match serial #. Forearm has 2 lines, is narrow, has W shaped checkering and 1 hole with just a screw. Stock bottom: No hole. Has a grip cap with one screw hole. Front/Rear sight match up with V3.3 described in Savage book. It was made during WW2, so figured WTH.

Don't RS's all have sling studs?

My 1940 RS has an 8 stamped on the front of the receiver and a 6 on the bottom of the barrel, Matching #'s, front swivel holds the forearm on, etc.
My 1950 R or RS? has nothing on the front of the receiver or bottom of the barrel. The sling swivel is separate from the screw that holds the forearm on.

The letter says it is an R. It also mentions the double line on the foreend tip for rifles manufactured before 1950. Hence my confusion as I thought only the RS had the double line?

Are mid-war 99’s considered pre-war?

Yes. Very, very few of the 99R Version 1 style are seen from 1942 to 1946 so many people just say "pre-war 99R". In reality they were catalogued even postwar for a year or two.

All of the Version 1 99R's and 99RS's had the double lines.

Uh no, CH =s crosshair, PCH =s post and crosshair, dot&CH =s dot and crosshair, post =s plain post gotta remember most utes have never seen a scope with anything but a Plex reticle.

Just in case, this is one.

I have two T7 guns that has filler screws that have never been touched with a screwdriver I believe. A G in 30-30 and an H in 250, V3-2 Mike

From what I have found the Weaver S mount was in production from around 1934. The T mount was added (or replaced the S) in 1939. The S mount only had two screws in each ring while the T had 4.

The first scope offering was shown in the Savage 1937 catalog. The scope that was available for the 99 was the Weaver 29-S in a Weaver S mount.

In 1938 the Weaver 330-S scope was added. It would have been supplied in the S mount till the improved T mount was phased in.

I think all of these dates would be + or - depending on catalog release date, production availability and units on hand.

The factory D&T was special order and was free with the purchase of a scope. I don't think the scope was shipped attached. The dealers would have sold the scope and mounts also and was probable more likely to have added the units than placing an order through a jobber and wait for a special order rifle. That might account for why we see so few mounts located in the same place.

What T mount had 4 screws ?
All T7s had two holes.

The rings, not the receiver.

2 screws in the receiver for all, 4 rings on the rings for T-7's.

Did Savage factory ever install a folding semi buckhorn (in dovetailed barrel) rear sight on a Version 2 R or RS? Is there a definite way to tell a version 2 R from RS? As in, if someone added the proper sights to the tang? like this one? I thought it could be an RS, but how would I be sure?
https://www.gunsinternational.com/g.../savage-99r-300-sav.cfm?gun_id=102165783

99RS Version 2:
1) Redfield 70LH receiver sight
2) Rear sight slot blank
3) Front Lyman #31 gold bead

Them was the specs from the start to the end..

Ways to tell if a 99R has been "changed":
1) Missing one or more of the above
2) blue rubbed off where a rear sight would have sat

I'd say that's a 99R with a Redfield on it since the front and rear sights look to have been changed.

So, In later Savage 99's there was not much in the way of special orders/changes like the early years? correct? Things were like today's products. no change to the way it's made, all should be the same?

Correct. There is no log info to tell what was shipped. That folding rear looks like a Marbles 95 which was not used on any other Savage after WWII.