Here's a few pics of my 99 Takedown in 30-30
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Here's a few pics of my 99 Takedown in 30-30
http://www.plainshunter.com/wp-conte...0/IMG_5536.jpg
http://www.plainshunter.com/wp-conte...0/IMG_5537.jpg
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I like to find old 99's in need of rescue.
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.243 99A. Apparently the victim of someone in a steroid fueled rage who didn't know that the safety locked the lever. It took me a couple weeks of tinkering but I finally got the safety slide bent back into proper shape.
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.300 99EG. Project gun. Apparently the victim of multiple side mount scope experiments gone wrong. It had 9 (yes, nine) extra holes in the reveiver, plus a couple of hesitaiton marks. Brazed the holes shut, shortened the barrel to 20.5”, crowned the muzzle, installed a banded front sight and custom no-drill scope mount. Finished with Duracoat matte black.
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.303 1899A. This one is all original. I like to take it to the range every now and again and drive the mega-magnum/AR/AK crowd crazy by shooting better groups at 100yds.
where did you find that no-drill scope mount? How does it attach?Quote:
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.300 99EG. Project gun. Apparently the victim of multiple side mount scope experiments gone wrong. It had 9 (yes, nine) extra holes in the reveiver, plus a couple of hesitaiton marks. Brazed the holes shut, shortened the barrel to 20.5”, crowned the muzzle, installed a banded front sight and custom no-drill scope mount. Finished with Duracoat matte black.
Looks like a Lightfoot mount.
They attach with the two tang screw holes on the upper tang and use the rear dovetail on the barrel.
Fixed all the older image links from before the move so they're displaying now.
Ray - The EG in my previous post looked almost exactly like yours before I started working on it.
I still have the rear sight which I don't need because the new scope mount attaches in the rear sight dovetail, and, the original sight would be too low for the new front sight. If you want it shoot me a PM.
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here is a pic of my 30/30
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My one and only Savage 99 in 30-30.
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My 1965 Savage 99F in .308 with factory Bosch and Lomb Balvar 8A. They can keep the crappy synthetic guns. This one will continue to be my choice of hunting rifle! I do believe it will soon wear a Leupold VX3 though.
99 (L on the receiver) (H on the lever boss). Rebarreled to 358 Winchester. I have no idea what it was originally.
Around 25 years ago, a coworker asked me to haul a lawn mower to his grandfather's house so he could do some spring clean-up for him as he was in very poor health. I stayed and helped with all of the yard work. Even found a patch or morels around his pine trees and brought to the house for him. He was thrilled with the find. Before leaving he started talking about his elk hunting trips many years ago and he insisted that I look at his favorite elk rifle. I told him that I thought it was beautiful and that I would love to go elk hunting someday. I was saddened to hear of his passing about a year later. My coworker then floored me when he said that his grandfather wanted me to have his rifle as nobody in the family hunted and it should go to someone who appreciated it. Words cannot express how much it really is appreciated. Right up there with my late father's guns.
It was brought out of a 15 year hibernation for some shooting today only to have the Weaver K6 fall apart. The plastic around the ocular lens split and the lens just flops around. Now to find a place to do repairs since this rifle would not be the same without this scope.
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Cool story.
Ironsight Inc does all the old Weaver repairs on scopes, yours would be about $85 to fix.
1967 Savage 99E .243 20" barrel
Lyman All-American scope
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1966 Savage 99E .308 20" barrel
Weaver Classic Extreme 1.5-4.5x24 scope
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The two 99s and a 1949 Marlin 336 SC w/Williams aperture sight
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Thanks for taking a look!
Gary
My 1920 99 takedown in 22 Savage High Power. Finish is worn but nobody has taken steel wool to it, it has a lot of character. All original with the exception of maybe the rear sight and being tapped for a scope mount. All of the stock pieces have the serial number stamped on them.
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No pics added since November, so I'll put up two 250-3000 Savages I picked up recently, both from 1935. The first is a 99T, the second a 99H Barrel Band Carbine.
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man that is a nice T I hade a nice barrel band carbine in 303 wish I had it back.
I am new to this site and wanted to post a couple of pictures of my 99 that I just bought this year. I have always wanted one and this year I had a chance to going deer hunting with a firearm for the first time in 47yrs of my life. I choose the 99 for my weapon.
I found it in an old gun shop that I have been going to for years. He used to have a whole line of them. This year when I went there, their was only one left. This one....
When I picked if up, I bought it instantly. It came with a redfield scope mount and a lyman peep sight. I know it originally was not tapped for a scope but I didn't care.
I like to think the wear on this gun was from the previous owner. The sight changes were done as he got older in age. first the open sights, then to a scope.
So here is my first deer with a rifle and using a 99 no less.
I know it's not a giant....But when I saw him all I saw was horns. The way I see it...the hunt and the meat in my freezer is my trophy.
I realize people have not posted on this tread in awhile. hopefully someone will add some more pictures.
I don't know how to post a pic on this page.
You can try imgur.com now that photobucket got greedy.
my model 99. I have loved the look and feel of the 99's from the first time I held one. I wanted one that hadn't been drilled for a scope and was extremely fortunate to find this old girl a few years ago.
She was drilled and tapped at the factory on the tang but that was it.
Born in 53 in 300 savage.
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https://i.imgur.com/u8LkzFr.jpgHi, guys! I am helping a relative who has the sad duty to clear a family estate. Any idea what this one is worth? I'd like to buy it, but need a fair market offer to make (or I will never hear the end of it). It's a 99 -- I think an R model, but not sure -- in .300 Savage. SN is 3912xx, so it should be a 1940. I can't find a scratch on it anywhere: wood, blue, casehardening are all perfect. There is some blue wear on the corners of the buttplate; some slight discoloration on the bolt/slide as shown. The flat part of the muzzle (not the barrel sides!) is almost white. It's wearing a Weaver K3 60B in Weaver rings.
Any help on determining the exact model, and a fair value, would be great! Thanks in advance!
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Thats a sweet pre-war R. Say $750-$800, alot more if it wouldn't have been D&T'd for that scope.
Thank you, Mad Dog! Since I see you are from Ontario, you might be interested to know this is an Ontario 99. The family member who purchased it new was a Scottish emigre to Kingston who later moved down to the States, but always kept his cottage and boathouse on Dog Lake (near Seeley's Bay) and hunted with it there, too (the cottage is still in our family, and not for sale).
https://forum.ih8mud.com/attachments...-jpeg.3008258/https://forum.ih8mud.com/attachments...-jpeg.3008258/https://forum.ih8mud.com/attachments...-jpeg.3008258/1961 Savage 99f .308 with Fajen furniture. I picked it up at a Montana farm auction. Looked like it had never been fired.
And the new Savage 110 Ultralite with Proof Research carbon barrel in 30-06
Interestingly they weigh almost exactly the same as they are currently setup.
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new to the site, not to savage99. took my first deer with my pap's ol' 99 and had a soft spot for them ever since. did a wood furniture restoration on a series A chambered in 300sav (rough dated to late'60s early 70s) i found a few years back at a local gun shop. looked like someone left some cleaning solvent on the stock/forearm before they put it in the safe and the finish/stain was rough. it was factory drilled/tapped so i put a simons 2x7 on it even though its a new scope i think it doesn't look out of place.
took the restored series A out for a walk in the big woods of the pa allegheny national forest this past deer season and we got the job done.
A few years back I seen an ad for a 99 in 30/30 Winchester. I grew up in PA and saw a lot of 99s in 300 Sav. A few less in 250-3000, 243, 308, and 284. I knew there were 22 HP, 303 Savage, and 30-30 but I never had my hands on them. I was playing with 30/30s at the time because I was shooting cast bullets, had a good load for our 340 and I wanted to get a lever gun to play with. This 1899 made in 1901 was about ideal because it was in good shape, not altered and had good sights. I took that load that shot well out of the 340 and tried it out of the 1899 at 50 yards. I really like this ole girl.
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New member but not new to Savages...
Here is my "minty" Prewar 99RS in .300
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