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SAVAGE 99 SERIAL NUMBERS

Posted on 14-05-2021 | admin


 * Savage 99 Serial Number Location

Introduced in 1958, the plan was for the rifle to be called the Model 98,
because Savage expected the retail price to be $97.98. But that didn’t work out
because the price was raised to $109.95, so the rifle became the Savage Model
110. Post your serial number, XX last two numbers. If their is one also post the
lever boss code. Found on the lever boss front, just above the screw that hold
the lever onto the gun.


SAVAGE 99 SERIAL NUMBER LOCATION

Mike...
Your Model 99 is NOT an 'EG'... an EG has a schnoble tip on the muzzle end of
the forearm.
Savage began using what we call (in the Forum on another site) the Lever Boss
Code ('LBC') in 1949. The LBC begins with a number (the inspector's number)
followed by a letter which indicated the year of manufacture. In 1949, the
letter used was 'A'. In 1950, they went to 'B', in 1951 to 'C', in 1952 to 'D'
and so on to the letter 'Y' in 1971. The letters 'O' and 'Q' were skipped due to
their similarity.
Apparently... and for unknown reasons, some rifles were pulled off the assembly
line and set aside. Then, later, they were put back on the line and the
manufacturing process was finished. This created a situation wherein the rifle's
serial number may not accurately ascertain the year of manufacture for SURE.
Thus, we can fall back on the Lever Boss Code to determine the year of
manufacture if the rifle has one.
All the Model 99s (to the best of my knowledge) manufactured from 1949 through
1971 (inclusive) had Lever Boss Codes inside a small, lightly embossed OVAL
located on the lower front side of the receiver opposite of and just above where
the lever rotates. Often, the OVAL in which the LBC is stamped and the LBC
itself are so lightly impressed that it requires a magnifying glass to see
them... and then, some of the OVAL and/or the LBC may be too lightly stamped to
be fully determined.
Here's excerpts from my records:
F= 1954: 686489(19F), 695xxx(19F), 704960(13F), 7184xx, 727303(13F),
747330(14F), 751488(?3F),7567xx(5F), 835192-lettered by John T. Callahan-shipped
from the factory on 8/13/54),
G= 1955: 75858x(14G), 759100(“early ’55”), 76187X(G), 7680xx(17G), 7709xx(23G),
774xxx(G), 9001XX(23G), 903xxx (Rick 99 wrote, “The last of the 700,000 serials
& the 1st of the 900,000 overlap.”)
John T. Callahan is a former worker at the old Savage Plant and has the plant's
records of when rifles were shipped.
Rick99 is the most knowledgeable member of our Forum at a different site.
That said, if you look on the front side of your rifle's lower receiver with a
magnifying glass (because the OVAL is often lightly stamped), you will see your
rifle's Lever Boss Code. It will be a number followed by a letter. The number is
the inspector's number and the letter will tell you what YEAR your rifle was
manufactured.
If the Lever Boss Code (LBC) letter is a 'F', then your rifle was made in 1954.
If the letter is a 'G', then your rifle was made in 1955.
I suspect your rifle was made in 1955 by it's serial number, but... again... the
LBC is 'THE' more accurate date-of-manufacture.
Incidentally, the Model 99s manufactured in the late 1940s and all of the 1950s
up to the time (1960) Savage moved their plant from Chicopee Falls, Mass. to
Westfield, Mass. were the finest Model 99s ever made and received a lot of
'hand' work by the older plant workers.
The .300 Savage cartridge was a 'father' of the .308 Winchester and is one of
'THE' finest eastern deer cartridges ever made. It can do anything the .308
Winchester cartridge can do, but gives less recoil. I hand-load my .300 EG with
40.8 grains of H4895 which gives a chronographed muzzle velocity of 2635 fps
with a velocity variation of ± 3 fps (+1 fps/- 2 fps) with a 150 grain Nosler
Ballistic Tip bullet. Accuracy is 1-inch at 100 yards (3-shot groups) and the
point-blank-range is 250 yards.
'Point-blank-range' is the range from the rifle's muzzle out to the point in
yards wherein the bullet never rises or falls more than 3-inches above or below
the line-of-sight. Therefore, if you aim accurately, your bullet is hit well-in
a deer's 'kill zone' (out to 250 yards) which is dinner-plate sized area on the
deer.
Have fun with your rifle... it's a good one!
Strength & Honor...
Ron T.






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