Hi guys. Just thought I would post this to get some feed back. I just purchased a Savage 99F in .300 Savage. It is a post mil with the tang safety. BUT the gun has cut checkering and must be a very early post mil. Gun is in excellent shape but has a tiny tang crack that I can fix easy. I paid 400.00 shipping included. Did I do OK? I think it will make a decent hunting rifle.


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Darryl

Yes and yes.

Can anyone tell me if the eye alignment/cheek weld is better on the post mil F than earlier guns for scope use. I tried to scope my 1930 E but it had way too much drop. I suppose Savage by the post mil production had raised the comb for scope use? I know the DL had an obvious monte carlo style stock for scope use.

Darryl

Rifle came in the mail today. Close inspection reveals, cut checkered, serial number makes date of build early 1960. Barrel reads Chicopee Falls so it must have been from the old plant. I was able to repair the slight tang crack with Accra glass gel. Bore is excellent and blue is in very good condition. I will mount a 3X Leupold M8 on it and see how see shoots. I do like the tang located safety and the trigger is crisp but a little heavy. Overall very happy with the rifle.

Darryl

If you keep the scope as low as possible to the barrel with low rings and no more than a 33 or at most a 36 mm scope I find that I can pretty much weld my check to the stock and look through the scope very naturally. Higher rings and larger ocular lens makes if difficult to acquire the cross hairs without lifting your head off the stock

Just my experience.

Yours and others may differ

Mounted the Leupold in Weaver bases and low rings. Like 99Guy said the alignment and cheek weld is perfect. Big difference from my 1930 E that would have needed the stock comb built up to scope properly. Thanks for the replies.
Darryl

now go kill some thing, dems are not in season yet

texken be careful. One of my buddies, who is gone now, had such a sour experience as a cop and in divorce that he said everyone should have one lawyer tag a year. Be Well, Rustyzipper.

Did you drill/tap the 1930’s 99E for the scope?

The rifle had been drilled and tapped when I bought it. Shame. It now sports a Williams FP99 receiver sight and is a good shooter. I might add that the new to me 99F is a tack driver with Remington factory 150 grain Core Lokts. I did notice that the 99F also has a brass rotor a bonus to me.

Darryl

You have the same era 99F as me. It is my main hunting rifle this year. So far, nothing on the ground yet.

That would be the perfect deer rifle for a leftie like myself. I think you paid about half price.

Well the 99F did it's job. Good sized doe at about 110 yards. Remington 150 grain Core Lokt. The EG in the pic belongs to a very senior member. He is 94 and killed a nice yearling the same day I killed mine.

AWESOME! That is fantastic.

Good enough. Have always had a 'soft' spot' for the first game I've taken with a new gun, be it feather or four legged or a fish with a new rig!!!

Nice job! I like to see Savage rifles put to good use.

Lee

Thanks for the pics.

94 and still hunting and not only that, still able to shoot straight enough to kill a deer

That is absolutely amazing.

Nice! Some good eating right there. I agree, your friend at 94and still hunting, well that's amazing. Kudos to you for helping him get out there. Looks cold!

Years back I bought a near mint condition '57 M99F .300 Savage at a collector show for my son, but the kid never took to hunting and it was always my back up to my bolt action 7mm-08. I put a 1.5-5 Vari-X lll on it and it always came up and shot well. This deer season I told myself that I had to try it instead of the bolt action. Sure enough it shot down a meat deer with an 80 yard neck shot, but honestly I don't like it for the way it carries. One handed on that rounded receiver is fine, but in the crook of my arm not so much because of that lever. It does have sling swivel studs which I don't know if they were factory installed or not, but I didn't use a sling on it this year. To read on here a guy would think that a 99F .300 Savage would be the be all end all in the whitetail woods with a cult like following. What am I not realizing with my F?

99 new to me. how do identify what year and model. thanks for help

DCD, find a copy of Murrys book the 99 savage.
Then a copy of David Royals book.
Study for a year or two
Then take pictures ,post here, and select the consensus as to what it is, probably be right unless it is a never say never Savage .

Don't wait a year or two to post pictures. partial serial # and the code in the oval on the lever boss will help identify year produced.
For a signed and inscribed copy of my book see the info below. David Royal