Savage 99 takedown

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I am looking at a 303 savage 99 takedown, it locks up tight. wood needs replacing, comes wit 5 boxes of factory ammo. metal is good cond, no rust, rifling is good, what should I pay for it? it would make a good pack rifle.
 
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b72471 said:
SAVAGE 99 without a stock, 350. the wood for this model is not cheap. The factory ammo is a separate issue.
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Ditto. The ammo alone is worth as much as the rifle; it is VERY hard to obtain. Hornady made some a few years ago as a limited offering, but Winchester discontinued it 20-odd years back, Rem and Imperial 30-odd years back.
Any chance you can salvage the old wood, particularly as the rifle will be packed and, I assume, used for hunting?
 
Western Gun Parts, but timber of any sort there can get quite s'pensive.
WTB in the EE and gun shows.
Not sure if Boyd's offers up for this critter.
If so, maybe consider it and put the original in hibernayshun for safe keeping.
 
You are more likely to win the lottery than find a factory stock set for a 99. Wood replacement will almost certainly be aftermarket and has to be hand fitted.Been thinking of a Boyd's set for mine but have heard horror story's about restocking these guns.
 
I had 99 in .308W rebored to .358W a number of years ago, and restocked it with a laminate from Guntocksinc (google them). Anyway it was not expensive, or terribly difficult. The tough part of restocking any 99 takedown may be the extra work in finding and fitting the "takedown" mechanism in the forestock. Also, as mentioned, the 303 Savage is pretty much a reloading proposition, and though it's not impossible to track down brass, it's highly unlikely you will ever find it sitting on a shelf at any of the major retail stores.
 
If you still have all the metal pieces from the forearm you can usually find a stripped forearm on Ebay or Gunbroker.

The hard part is having a T/D without the forearm metals, they're the hard thing to find.

Also make sure the barrel isn't seized as sometimes they did from sitting to long without being removed.

A lot of times what happens is under the forearm is a small square hole Savage mounted there as a lever. You would move the forearm forward after removing it and put the takedown latch on the barrel into the small square hole in the forearm, then turn it to remove the forearm. The problem was that if the barrel was seized it didn't take much to push to hard on the side of the forearm and end up breaking it or giving it a good crack.
 
PRVI brass

PRVI makes 303 Savage brass, it is available in Canada. If you get the rifle, I'd buy a life supply of brass while I could!;)
 
MadDog said:
If you still have all the metal pieces from the forearm you can usually find a stripped forearm on Ebay or Gunbroker.

The hard part is having a T/D without the forearm metals, they're the hard thing to find.

Also make sure the barrel isn't seized as sometimes they did from sitting to long without being removed.

A lot of times what happens is under the forearm is a small square hole Savage mounted there as a lever. You would move the forearm forward after removing it and put the takedown latch on the barrel into the small square hole in the forearm, then turn it to remove the forearm. The problem was that if the barrel was seized it didn't take much to push to hard on the side of the forearm and end up breaking it or giving it a good crack.
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or if the action wasn't open...
 
I bought a stock set from Boyd's for a 99 a few years ago but it wasn't a take down. I think there is a stock listed on the EE. I'm not sure if it's the complete set though.
 
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