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Savage Model 99 Lever Action Rifle 303 Savage

Currency:CAD Category:Firearms & Military Start Price:50.00 CAD
Savage Model 99 Lever Action Rifle 303 Savage
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Savage Model 99 Lever Action Rifle 303 Savage

Savage Model 99, One of America’s Greatest Lever-Action Rifles

Made in huge amount of differant configuartions and calibers - This one is a 303
Savage with a 26" barrel ..
Condition is an 7/10 .

Bluing is dull all over the gun with some minor pitting - Stock is still good all over with
no visable cracks -
Butt pad is original steel cresent shaped Savage design.
Brass round indicator window on left side.

Barrel is good with opriginal iron sights. Rear sight is missing elevator..
Rifling is fair.

The .303 Savage is a rimmed, .30 caliber rifle cartridge developed by the Savage
Arms Company in 1894 which was designed as a short (as short as the .30-30
Winchester) action cartridge for their Savage Model 1895 later 1899 hammerless
lever-action rifle.

The cartridge was designed for smokeless powder at a time when black-powder
cartridges were still popular. The .303 Savage round was ballistically superior to the
.30-30,
The .303 Savage remained popular through the 1930s.[