model 99 help

[870 ExpressMag]

my uncle has a 99 in 300 savage...not drilled and tapped...brass rotator..non takedown..serial is 6420XX...can someone date this for me and tell me the year it was made? thanks for the help

[99trix]

Model 99EG date of manufacture 1952. The classic North Eastern deer rifle and cartridge, hence it is fairly common.

[Baker6x6]

Sure,
I'll DATE her for you... but don't expect her back by midnight... ;)

Oh.. I just remembered... I got the serial for my Mother's 99F... 7810xx
I'm guessing '55-'56, as this was supposed to have been her birthday present in '56

Ray

[870 ExpressMag]

thanks..i didn;t know you could tell the variation as well....what i am actually trying to do is get an exact one like my grandfathers which is serial # 4471XX...year and variation?

[99trix]

1952 is easy to tell the model, not drilled and tapped = EG, drilled and tapped = R. In 1947 (serial #447,xxx) the R was not drilled and tapped, so if your Grandfathers rifle is like yours it will be an EG if it has a different shaped tip on the forestock it will be an R.

781,0xx is 1956

[870 ExpressMag]

thanks for the info...i actually do not have a 99 yet....but since my last post...what are the odds...i found/purchased a 99 within 115 numbers of my grandfathers!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i will post pics when i get it! i still cannot believe it

[Baker6x6]

99TRIX:

#1- Thanks for the info on Mom's gun...

I'm a bit confused on dating my "other" 99. The serial number online comes up as 1940, while the Murray book (The 99).. lists it as being VERY-VERY late (last 100) of 1939.
Since I am interested in buying other "ephemera".. such as hang-tags and catalogs... which would you "trust" more to be accurate?
I would think the book had more "research" behind it- and this is certainly in the range of the records still at Savage.
Is there a book/list somewhere of post-1951 serial numbers?

I plan on documenting both rifles..

[Mad Dog]

Neither one of them are correct.

That gun was made sometime between 1945 and early 1946.