Damaged Stock on Savage 250-3000 Model 99-F

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I'm looking for advice re my 60 - 70 year old Model 99-f Savage 250-3000. I've owned it for over 40 years and it has been well used, with hundreds of hours in the timber and at the range.

The shoulder stock has cracked and chipped where it mates with the action, to the point where I feel it is dangerous to continue shooting with it. Would there be a gunsmith in western Canada who specializes in wooden stock repair? I've searched extensively on line and can't find a replacement for it.

Any thoughts or advice would be appreciated.
 
2 second search. Punched Savage 99 into Yahoo search engine.
http://w ww.gun-parts.com/savagestocks/

http://w ww.gunstocksinc.com/web_pages/Plate-pics/Stevens-stocks/Rifle-stocks.htm

http://w ww.brownells.com/items/savage-rifle-stocks.aspx
 
Thanks for the suggestions, gents.

Maynard, I'd actually found those sites (although it took me a wee bit longer than 2 seconds). Mine is the model 99-F which were sold 70ish years ago, with stocks checkered on the pistol grip and forestock. I'd hoped to find a factory replacement with the same checkering. However, it looks like that's not going to happen. I'll likely have to buy an aftermarket stock like those found in the links you provided and have it 'fine tuned' to fit the action -- then checkered to match the forestock. Or replace them both...

BTW, Boyd's seems to have the stock closest looking to mine...

Thanks again.... Steve
 
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For what it's worth I've repaired several cracked Model 99 stocks using Brownell's Acraglass - as a rule I would open the crack using a toothpick or large pin, clean the crack with paint remover a couple of times flusing with hot water - dry well and get the Acraglass into the crack using a bit of compressed air - clamp or use surgical tubing to hold things together - try to wipe all the excess expoxy away perhaps using a Q-Tip or the like - now, on the inside I use a fiberglass patch to cover (and then some) the crack - sometimes you have to remove a bit of excess fiberglass material so the action parts clear - if you're careful you won't have to refinish the whole stock - just a touch up where you have removed excess epoxy - for what it's worth .........
 
oz said:
For what it's worth I've repaired several cracked Model 99 stocks using Brownell's Acraglass - as a rule I would open the crack using a toothpick or large pin, clean the crack with paint remover a couple of times flusing with hot water - dry well and get the Acraglass into the crack using a bit of compressed air - clamp or use surgical tubing to hold things together - try to wipe all the excess expoxy away perhaps using a Q-Tip or the like - now, on the inside I use a fiberglass patch to cover (and then some) the crack - sometimes you have to remove a bit of excess fiberglass material so the action parts clear - if you're careful you won't have to refinish the whole stock - just a touch up where you have removed excess epoxy - for what it's worth .........
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Thanks Oz, that's great advice. I suspect the flushing with paint remover is to remove any gun oils that might have found their way into the crack? This crack has been developing for years, and the wood inside looks quite dark and saturated with 70ish years of cleaning and different gun lubricants. I was also thinking of drilling through the stock further down, below the bottom of the 'U', through good wood and gluing a walnut dowel through it. After finishing, it would be slightly noticeable, but I'm thinking safety here.
 
Steve - the repair advice is good advice. You may want to use a cyanoacrylate glue instead of Acraglass (which is good as well but I find I need to warm it up to get it run better) The cyano glue injected with a syringe will travel far (amazing sometimes where it pops out from ).
Binding with surgical tubing is the best way to clamp stocks with their complex forms.

Try and clean the old oil the best you can as described above, and you may be very pleased with the results.

The dowel or a threaded brass rod glued in can be helpful as well. Depending how bad the cracking is.

If wood is missing, you can replace a piece with new wood glued in (maybe pinned as well) and sand flush to fit. Armourers have been doing that on military rifles for eons ... those stocks are safe.

The bonus with your old rifle is that the .250 is not as punishing to your stock as many other rounds.

I would try and save the old stock...
 
You might try to get a hold of Carey Sticker at MS stocking in Sask. He is capable of doing all kinds of gunsmithingnwork

Neil
 
Neilm said:
You might try to get a hold of Carey Sticker at MS stocking in Sask. He is capable of doing all kinds of gunsmithingnwork

Neil
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Carey does top notch work but a replacement stock job for the OP's 99 would probably cost as much as the rifle is worth.

I've used the Wood Plus replacements from Brownells. They generally require some fitting and finishing but I don't consider that to be a negative.
 
Last I talked to Carey he had a pantograph (duplicating machine) And could provide a provide a stock that you fit & finish yourself or an expertly finished product for a fairly high price. His unfinished stocks were reasonable and I believe THat WGP was getting unfinished stocks from him for most of the old Winchesters,
 
Neilm said:
Last I talked to Carey he had a pantograph (duplicating machine) And could provide a provide a stock that you fit & finish yourself or an expertly finished product for a fairly high price. His unfinished stocks were reasonable and I believe THat WGP was getting unfinished stocks from him for most of the old Winchesters,
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I priced an unfinished 99 stock set from WGP last year and it was quite expensive compared to Boyd's or gunstocks inc. They wouldn't even send a pic of a set so i could decide if it was worth it.They were more than double the price of the other two i mentioned.
 
nomad 68 said:
I priced an unfinished 99 stock set from WGP last year and it was quite expensive compared to Boyd's or gunstocks inc. They wouldn't even send a pic of a set so i could decide if it was worth it.They were more than double the price of the other two i mentioned.
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My father is in the same boat , who is Carey and what does WGP stand for ? Western Gun Parts ?
Stefan
 
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