Savage 99 SRC

[Doc.Holliday]

Got a question for you 1899 experts. I have an opportunity to buy a Savage 1899 F SRC . Year of birth - 1914
30/30 cal.
The seller says the the 20 inch barrel is a heavy barrel.
Would Savage have put a 20 inch Heavy barrel - I'm thinking profile here; on a saddle ring carbine?
Now there are faint wrench marks on the barrel on both sides of the fore stock; leading me to think a barrel swap in its past.
What say you Savage guys?

Doc.

[gnoahhh]

Never say never when it comes to Savages. First, make sure it really is a 'heavy barrel'. Second make sure of the model/year (F src's weren't cataloged yet in 1914). 1914 saw the 1899H (20" lightweight takedown), and the 1899A,B,C (which could be had with any combination of caliber & barrel weight/length- on special order at extra cost- as well as takedown capability if one had the money for it. Serial number and a pic or two would help.

[Doc.Holliday]

Apparently it was sold this morning. The serial # ran to 1914 and it was a SRC and someone else had told me The Model H was never a SRC so it had to a F and apparently Savage models and options etc are all over the place. By the time I got my head twisted around this one it was sold. Probably for the better; good guns but too much confusion over what is right, was right, maybe right and plum not right.

Doc.

[Doc.Holliday]

It was for sale for $495.00. Then taking cash offers. That barrel thru a lot of people away. Wrench marks on a barrel especially a 1899 Savage where god knows what is factory right I think left most of us pondering.
I mean a 1899 Savage SRC in 30/30 from 1914; people should have been all over this flies to honey .

Doc

[Doc.Holliday]

I forgot to ask; Would the wood on the for end have had to have been reworked to accommodate a heavy barrel replacement??

Doc

[gnoahhh]

I got to thinking about this post and came back to revisit it. I made a mistake in my original response. Blame it on a brain fart or whatever, but I was thinking the OP said he was looking at a '99F' 1914 born-on date, not an '1899F'. Excess650 was spot on. Sometimes my brain goes faster than my eyes, but that's no excuse for bandying about bad info. My apologies.

Savage nomenclature can get confusing. For example, there was the 1899A, and the 20's-vintage 99A, both of which disappeared before WWII. Then much later was the 99A saddle rifle of the 1970's.