Savage 99 worth it to rebarrel?

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Beat up old savage 99 today came home with me today, along two other rifles. Much to my disappointment though the savage had been visited by bubba at some point. Seems he cut the barrel flush with the front sight:confused::bangHead: why I can only guess.
My question Is now this
A) is it worth/ practical to rebarrel this old girl ?
B) another for the parts closet ?
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Its never going to be original so if it shoots I'd leave it alone or maybe change the front sight and clean up the crown to decrease the yech factor of a bubba'd gun.
 
Crown it properly and try it.
Rebarrelling an 1899 is a bit complicated. If you were to buy a new barrel and pay normal shop rate for the labour, by the time the job was finished, the cost would be way more than the gun is worth.
Good luck finding a 'smith with a .303 Savage reamer. Changing the caliber would require changing the magazine rotor.
 
.303 Savage is a classic round but not a very desirable caliber to most. Cut it back to a carbine and you have a great hunting rig, or sell it here on the EE and move forward. Value can't be accurate without seeing the whole piece but they usually don't command many dollars in rough condition.
 
As mentioned, crown the bawrill and I'd tap the front sight owt and pewt and tidy up the
front arc of the sight.
Muhnieezs won't be detrillmental.
 
Could just re-barrel it to 30-30 as it should also fit the spool.Use a Rem 700 take-off barrel in .30 cal Try some dud 30-30 shells in the spool and see if they will cycle.
 
Got a 357 mag take off barrel handy, should do what was done in that enfield mountain rifle thread where he converted to 6.5-55 and make a sweet little plinker out of that.

Actually I have a 303 savage 99 take off barrel now that I think of it. Ill sell it to you on the cheap if your interested PM me.
 
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Could just re-barrel it to 30-30 as it should also fit the spool.Use a Rem 700 take-off barrel in .30 cal Try some dud 30-30 shells in the spool and see if they will cycle.
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An 1899 rebarrel is more complicated than most. Square threads. Counterbore for the bolt nose. Cut for the extractor. Cut for the locating finger on the top of the bolt. Forend attachment. Sights.
A .303 shoulder is closer to the head than a .30-30's. Rotor might or might not work.
Here is one underway. The bolt cannot be closed on the new barrel until the cut for the locating finger has been made.

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OP, put an ad into the EE for a take off Mod 99 303 Savage barrel.

Duncan Waugh from Cranbrook is on this site. I don't know his sig name or have his phone number. He had a couple of 99 barrels in Penticton last week end. One of them was a 303 Savage.

You can get his telephone # and maybe his email address by Googling 2019 Kooteny Gun Show.
 
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