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Yeah, if you put in the period on the savage99.com website it ignores everything after the period. So it thinks your serial number is 11.

Thanks Joe and Blair, M with circle versus M without.. have to remember that.

Yeah, I was replying to Straightshooteryoubet. He's getting the wrong date because he is typing the serial number in on the web site and including the period.

I also see that ones wearing a mad dog mark about three inches in front of it. I'll have to jot that down beside the number as well.

Nice catch!!!


Mike...

Welcome to the site and if you can please post pictures of your rifle.

"You will find the barrel marking patented Feb.7.1893. July25.1893.Cal.303. also 38-55 & 30-30 maybe others .If they are 1895 Barrels they had to be bored after they left Marlin.This barrel marking rus throug serial #30,00+."

Doug, are you saying that there are barrels marked..."Patented Feb.7.1893. July25.1893.Cal.303" that are in .30-30 or .38-55? I know the early patent date line is on later production rifles but I thought it was only on round barrel .303's. Do you have one in the other calibers?

I typed it in without the period and DOM is 1900. On the Savage Website I cannot find a peep sight that looks like the one on mine. The front globe sight has a pin that will flip down and the globe has patent dates on it. When I look through the peep and put the pin in the middle of globe it is great. I like the sight picture. Thanks

Under the forearm it has an A inside a circle and the number 1. I will post some pics later. Thanks

SS, does it look like any of these? I think your rifle came with special order sights on it. Your front sight sounds like a Lyman #5.

Joe,

I have a nice 1895 in the safe with a little more condition that the ungodly sight wouldn't stick out like a sore thumb on it. I'll PM you my address so you can box it up and not make that rifle look so hideous.

Blair

Ungodly....yes. Lots of them out there.......wrong!!!!

My rifle is an 1889 B not an 1895. Under the forearm is stamped the letter A inside a circle and the number 1. Thanks

What about the tang sights I posted, are any of them what you've got on yours?

Those numbers and letters are nothing more than assembly markings from the factory. They have nothing to do with Marlin or the Savage plants.

From left to right mine is the fifth sight. It pivots up and down. The other rear sight is a two way flip sight, one is a buck horn the other is a white triangle and you can fold both down so you can use the peep. The front sight is a globe with a pin inside that flips up or down. The globe has patent dates Jan. 8 1889 Feb 13 1894. How can I tell who made the barrel? Did Marlin make any barrels for the early 99? Thanks for your help.

O.k., your tang sight is a Lyman #18 or a early Lyman 1A SA, same thing. Your rear sight is a Lyman #6 fold down rear sight and the globe front sight sure sounds like a Lyman #5 but the patent date is the one the #7 used. Does the front sight have a windage adjustment feature or does it just flip down?

No your barrel was not made by Marlin. It was made in the Savage plant. The only barrels Marlin made were for the model 1895's that had serial numbers under 10,000. The latest Marlin production 1895 was made in 1897, unless someone has a letter from J.C. stating an 1898 in which case I'd love to get a copy of it.

You mean like this This is the letter for the rifle that the picture of the barrel came from with the Marlin and Mad Dog marks.



Blair

Hmm.. "The first 8200 rifles.."???

Oops.

Exactly like that Blair. Did you send me that already? Apparently I never printed it off.

Thats the first letter I've seen so far with one accepted in 1898.

Edited: forget it Blair, I found it, I never wrote down the acceptance date. That was the one with the cut bbl correct?

Yes and I also have one 5 digits earlier that I have yet to letter.

O.k., that explains alot. I didn't know if that was the higher or lower of the two.

Hey, whats a 26" oct 1895 bbl worth to ya?

Forget it, I'm joking, it's got no wood but I'll have a set made maybe.