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Nope, Don.

You can see the points of the checkering at front.

It's 99T checkering.



Edit: Not to mention the forearm slants right in front of the receiver.

Don, I thought so too but it also looks like it has the little angles in the forarm right in front of the receiver. Here is a link to a large high res scan of the forarm.
http://i78.photobucket.com/albums/j92/grogel1/fessforend.png

certainly T wood... does look like T checkering from the best I can tell but also appears to have two additional lines around the front... though they are NOT like a prewar R or RS as they are way to far apart...

It does look like a RT forearm ,but my computer screen shows two lines around the forearm end !!! weird !!

The 2 lines are curved, so might be some figure to the wood or maybe even (dare I say it?).. dings.

So...Don...are you 6'2" or 6'4"?

Whats that got to do with anything??? i'm 6'4" in height,and when i lay down i'm 6'4" i length !!!!!

This came today also, Its got a name and a year on the back but it looks like ball point pen so who knows. Says Frank Scot 1927.

And look, I cant spell my own last name !!

and a close up o the gun

strangely enough I thought Id seen a similar gun in a photo. I have this in my photobucket but dont own the photo. Maybe Stever does but he cant check, I have his photos!!

Turns out it is Frank.





Now, Who was Frank and who has his gun today????????

Got nothing to do with nothing really....I just know you look to be a big bastaard from the "vault" pictures and I am guessing height in relation to photo's. No harm----no foul! I am a miniscule 5'9" and the same when I lay flat!

...and just so you old-assed cowpoke lover's know....I kicked 'ole Fess's ass and stole that damn rifle! Ha!

He looks older and plumper in the photo I just got.

is that a metal plate in the middle of the cheek piece? Have you done any research on the name? Its clearly a pre 90.000 rifle... schutzen buttplate is awesome... one of few 1899s I have ever seen with a cheek piece at all and looks a fair bit different then the one that Jed owned but hard to tell with the angles... sure has the Marlin S curve... very interesting... will be fun to see what everyone else thinks...

Frank is clearly a dead guy. When Frank was still drawing breath he was a short, squat guy...the damn rifle is almost as big as Frank!

Yeap You Have them,,But I Have 5 Other Binders with Him in it.

...yes and I think those are the same mounts as in the earlier photo. They don't appear to have weathered the years well, either.

Geez, old Frank was a stern looking dude. He doesn't look happy at all about being such a successful nimrod! I'll bet he killed half of those animals by staring them to death. Lighten up, man!!

He looks like a more dangerous version of Curly from the 3 Stooges.

Rod

Yeah, sort of Curly with a Moe scowl!

WWI uniform...guys were smaller back then, but a hell of a lot tougher than most today. You probably didn't mess with Frank much...made a fierce friend and a fierce enemy.

That rifle reminds me of George Shoyen's work. (He was a custom gunsmith in Denver at the turn of the century, mostly famous for his schuetzen target rifles.) I wonder if Frank was an offhand rifle competitor who had his favorite gunsmith customize his Savage? Regardless, speaking as one who has used hooked butt plates a few times (I once played with a Shoyen .22 offhand rifle I picked up for $800 at a show almost 30 years ago now, among others), it probably aided deliberate slow shooting, but was probably a hindrance when it came to taking a snap shot. It tells me old Frank was a careful deliberate kind of hunter.

The pistol grip treatment we have taken to calling 'the Stevens S-curve' was a fairly common design feature on many custom and factory special order guns of the period. I wonder who came up with it originally? It would make an interesting research project.