Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Savage Collectors 99 EG and Lyman SA1a conflict - Help?

as Rory says... the number/ letter combo is original... to check if your stock is correct to your gun... the number/ letters should match on the butt plate, stock , and when the stock is removed the same combo will be stamped on the left side of the lower tang. ALso, depending on the serial range... my experience is that the forearm should be stamped with it as well (or often something very similar +/- one letter or number, etc) up through the around 650,000 or so but will have to check my stats again to verify that.

After that the forearms and stocks are often completely different number/letter sequences but the forearms will often have the last digits of the serial written in chalk on them.

Here is where the stamping is located on the tang



stock with partial serial and stamping sequence also in chalk



and butt plate


didn't see any pics in my photobucket account of a forearm with the chalk...




Hope that was not confusing.

Drew, the stamping under the stock on the receiver can be anywhere, not just on the rear portion. I have found numbers stamped on the very thin back edge of the body of the receiver...!!!

Mike...

You guys are tons of fun. What knowledge. I'll check the next time I have it apart....which may be this evening. God Bless, Marc

By jove, I think I've got it! Mad Dog, your suggestion ended up correct. I straightened the Lyman and the sight is on the gun, fitting perfectly. I also shifted the stock slightly downward as y'all suggested, and it may have made a small difference. I decided it was better to risk a sight base than it was to alter the gun. Yes, it was a risk, but came out great. I am now thinking that this sight may have had too much bow to begin with, as the last 99 it was on needed a shim to get it to work. Tonight I simply placed it on a pine 2x4 with the stem pointing upwards, heated it to "hot-to-the-touch", and tapped it with a piece of soft pine and a light hammer. The arch reduced. I kept trying and checking until I got it to fit my 99 with a sheet of paper able to slide between it and the wood with light drag. It's "free floated". :-) Unless you were looking for it, you'd never notice the sight was straightened. The two mount screws are down tight with no problems or shims. Whew. Nothing left now but to wipe the bore and go shoot. My sincere thanks to all, and especially Rick99 for his willingness to send me a longer mounting screw. You guys are swell. God Bless, Marc