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Still looking for sporting rifle as I own none. I found Savage 99. It's older gun with lever safety, front sight base integral with the barrel, rotary magazine with cartridge counter. It comes with tilting mount and "throwaway" Weaver KV 60 scope. If I buy it it will have new Nikon Monarch installed. The caliber is highly desirable .308Win. My question is when did Savage Arms begin to tap receiver for scope mounting? The early ones only seemed to have rear tapped for peep sight mounting. Thank you and Merry Christmas.
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If I remember right, they started about 1954/55.
They moved the Savage emblem from the front recv'r ring to the left side of the action at that time.
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The 99 is a POS next to the Mauser you rejected…
IMO.
Last edited by SDH-MT; 12/24/13 11:22 PM. Reason: IMO
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My 1955 .308 99F Featherweight is D&T'd from the factory, stamp on receiver ring is on left side.
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The 99 is a POS next to the Mauser you rejected…
IMO. WTF you talkin' about, Willis ? Merry Christmas !!!
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The 99 is a POS next to the Mauser you rejected…
IMO. WTF you talkin' about, Willis ? Merry Christmas !!! I've seen a BUNCH of POS, Bubba'ed Mausers. I've seen maybe a handful of what I considered neat 99s. BUT, all in all, there's a butt-ton more nice Mausers out there and more than a few straight out elegant ones. Granted, I'm a self-professed Mauser Man, but I'm not a 99 hater (though, "99 reasons to hate them" is a term I've heard in the past), but the numbers are in favor of finding a nice factory sporter or custom Mauser over a really cool 99. That Greener Mauser sounded like a neat one. I do get a bit excited when I see an un-monkeyed G&H 99, I must say!
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It's apples and oranges really, bolts and levers, Mausers and 99's ... I got this .300Sav. 99 RS years ago, I think G&H probably did the mount in house as the bolt heads are almost invisible like G&H did. I have also seen a couple more G&H 99's with the checkered cheek panels. 
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"The 99 is a POS next to the Mauser you rejected…"
Agree, and I have a mix of 7 early and late 99s in the rack. They work for me as I am a Southpaw and even though that abominable trigger guard safety isn't lefty friendly, the latter tang safety (though IMHO less desirable) models are. A clean well done Mauser has a lot more class and appeal to me, even if the bolt is on the wrong side. Just my .02
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MP Sadly Deceased as of 2/17/2014
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I was 'blessed' with short arms and medium sized hands making bolt guns a chore to operate with old M-S being worst possible choice. Used to own Sako Finwolf and Winchester 88 yet I always seem to gravitate towards a Savage. The two part biography in Precision Shooting Magazine of man responsible for creation of Savage Arms was fascinating. What is amazing is if the 1899 was designed now it would still be considered very modern firearm.
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