Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Savage Collectors My new 99H - a question

SRC with a calvary type sling

It makes a good wall hanger with the sling

Ready to hop on a horse and go elk hunting

If you can wait till March 16th I'll be going to the Baltimore show. Cody will be there and they do searches while you wait for $5. The search has all the same info, less the fancy paper. I got 6 last year, I think four for Joe Brady and 2 for me. If it's some fantastic news like it was owned by someone famous, you can get the letter later. If it's just all the info the guys gave you, you can go out to dinner. I did my 1902 engraved rifle. The guys told me every thing on the search. Then I did my 1929 engraved K with the owners initials carved in the stock JM. Turned out that was bought new by the California Artist, Jo Mora, I'm getting a letter for that one.

Czech. Something else about "Letters" and "Searches". Your rifle is quite interesting, so if you want me to do a search, it's only $5, I'll get it for you, just so I can be the first to know. I'll text you the search as soon as I read it. But some guys have got searches and then said they were going to get a letter to see what else is there? Nope, nothing else. In the pic below, the one on the left has a bunch of special order stuff. Mine on the right, only has "K". The "K" has engraving, checkering, fancy wood, maybe a couple more special features. But, they don't list them, because that's what a "K" is. Next to the K is some work and job order numbers, but those records were lost long ago, so they just mean the rifle went back to the factory on that date for, "something". So, if your search comes back and just says 1899H that would make a boring letter. If it comes back with more info, and a famous owner, yeah, get the letter.

Joe, that's a great offer, and I will take you up on it!

If you would post the results here and email me the search (it's easier for me to put in my records if it's an email), I'd appreciate it, and I'm sure several people here would like to see the results, too.

PM me your address and I'll send you the $5.

Thank you!

Rick

I have a beautiful 99G in 30-30 that was once an 1899H in 22HP, and it was redone at the factory with the factory letter stating so. Maybe something similar happened here?

I suspect that's exactly what happened. And I'd sure love it if the search told the story!

In the last two years I have had some 'gunshow' searches ran and was charged $10 each, which still is not bad compared to $75 each + $5 for mailing. Several I ran were for guns that had some work done, most showed that were returned to the factory for unspecified work, one did not.

Looks like you have a Colt revolver problem too. ??
How's about a pic of those?

OK, kinda sick today. May be tomorrow before I get pics. I also have a left-handed German Weatherby problem and a Ruger #1 problem

Rick, here are pics of the wall of pistols. Many of the SSA's are from when we were cowboy action shooters but I've had one of them since I was 15. It's the gun I've had the longest. More on it below.

The second pistol from the right in the top row is a 22 magnum that I got in 1961 when I was 15. Mama had to buy it for me. I wasn't old enough to buy a pistol, but it was my money. I worked as a house painter for my Father in the Summers while I was in high school and college. George Pasteur's Sport Shop in Ocala had it. George gave me a gift certificate for high school graduation in 1963 and I used it to buy the pearl grips. That was before I knew George Patton's opinion of pearl grips.

Bottom of the right side of the wall. I had to take two pics of the right side because I couldn't back up far enough to get the whole side in one pic.

The other pearl handled Colt that is in all 3 pics is engraved and has a history with some trick shooters. You can see the grip in the upper left of the last photo. It's a left handed grip with a carved steer's head.

There's even one rogue Savage pistol!

The Savage pistol came with a batch of 99's that I bought. The batch also included a Savage 101 pistol that DSR got from me when he came out hunt elk.
While I was out there I took a pic of the 1899H SRC with a modern saddle ring sling.

I'll bet the guy who came up with that idea thought he had a new invention. I imagine it was first developed for the military for M16's or M4's.