My book is The Savage 99 Pocket Reference. Concentrated on all the catalogued and relatively common uncatalogued models and the variations they went through. Kept it small so it would fit in a pocket for carrying through a gun show tho, so no large pictures in this one. And very little on Savage history, or precursor rifles, and things like that.

A lot of the data in it is data gathered at the 24hourcampfire by Rick Edmonds, Mad Dog, many others. So don't think it's all me. I was just the sucker who wrote the reference book. :-)

And yeah, I'd say those sling eyes are factory. We see them on too many 99K's to think they didn't do it.