I cannot identify the LBC on this rifle, but the serial number is 11279XX. The rifle is a 99F (receiver marked 99M) and is a 284 Winchester. Any help in identifying the year of manufacture would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance for any help!

If the barrel is stamped 99M, it's likely a 99DL with a monte carlo stock. If it's not a monte carlo stock, then it might be a 99F (a few with 99M stamps have been seen).

Rifle should date to 1966. Nice gun! This one's a few months later than yours:

Oh my! Pressed checkering, gold trigger, and white line spacers. I hope you wear bell bottoms and love beads when you take it shooting!

It ain't got no white line spacers! Aluminum buttplate...

I mean, come on.

And '66 was too early for bell bottoms, weren't it? I was still sporting a bowl cut and watching Dark Shadows and Mr. Rogers while the older siblings went to school, so i don't remember.

I did get a 99 in once with white line spacers that had been added. Looked like they'd been cut from an old detergent bottle or something. Spacers went in the trash...

Thanks very much for the information. I think it is a model 99F; pressed checkering, aluminum butt plate, gold trigger, engine-turned (jeweled) bolt, and does not have a Monte Carlo stock or white line spacers. Someone has added a sling swivel to the butt stock and another to the barrel. It's used but still has a lot of case color on the lever and the blue looks pretty good, too.

Thanks again! I wish there was a good listing of serial numbers and dates...

Calhoun: By the way...that is a very nice rifle you have...

Thanks again!

That is a mighty beautiful rifle!

I can't get over how accurate these rifles are, or maybe I'm just having consecutive good days at the range!

I've shot the .303, .300 savages, the .30-30 and the .308. All nice groups!

i just spit sardines and fritos all over the screen!

Gnoahhh

Think I still have the bell bottoms in the closet. You hurt my little feelers GW


Have that one's twin for trade, same caliber and year. Interested in 1950's F or R in 250-3000. GW

That's the markings I am looking at! Talk about seller's remorse...had an 1895 (marked JM under the forestock) 303, a model B 300, G 250-3000, several Fs (250-3000, 300), and a C (308)...but currently have none. Talk about being deprived!

Can someone tell me the year of a Savage 99F in .284 with SN 248651 ?

#248651 would be about 1922. Ain't now way Savage was making Model 99s in .284 in 1922!

Should be a letter in front of that. A or B?

I don't have the rifle here but I will check. If memory serves me, it was a B...so 1950?

The 284 Winchester was not introduced until 1963.

B series serial number, not to be confused with the lever boss code.

Thanks guys. It may be a parts gun. I'll report back.

B248xxx would be very early 1973.

From 1895 to 1968, Savage used numeric serial numbers for the 99's that applied only to the 99's. You could have a Savage 110 from 1959 with the same serial number as a Savage 1899 from 1902. In 1969 due to the Gun Control Act, Savage could no longer put the same serial number on two different firearms. So they started a new series with a starting A prefix, and went to B when they'd sold a million of them, and then C, and then D, etc. Those numbers are split between all firearms made by Savage. So A123456 might be a 99C, and A123457 might be a model 24.