Savage Model 99F 250-3000

• Rifle
• Savage Arms
• Model 99F
• Featherweight Model
• Manufactured in approximately 1955
• 250-300 Savage AKA 250 Savage
  • • The first commercial American cartridge to cross the 3000fps mark
• Lever action repeater
  • • Jeweled bolt
• Rotary magazine
  • • 5 Round capacity
    • Features a cartridge counter on the left side
      • Oddly, the number markings on the rotor have all been double-stamped
• Wood stock with semi-pistol grip
  • • 13.25" Length of pull
    • Checkered wrist and forend
    • Steel buttplate and swivel eyes, with white-line spacers 
    • Buttstock is unusually intact for a 99, showing no apparent cracking
    • Forend shows a crack on the left side and is somewhat loose
• Blued finish, showing thinning on receiver, typical of carry
  
  • • Some colour case hardening visible on lever
• 22" Barrel 
• Rear sight removed, from elevated bead still present
• Drilled and tapped for scope bases
  
  • • Currently mounts a vintage Weaver V9 scope
      • 3-x9x Magnification
      • Fine-crosshair reticle
      • Adjustable objective lens
        • Objective adjustment ring does not seem to function correctly
• Bore is dim, with bright lands. Grooves show pitting and debris. Rifling is present but worn.
• Serial No: 760834