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  • deschutesresident
    Just bought a Savage 99 in .308 W, very inexpensively. The receiver is marked "99E" and numbered A138xxx on the left. Lever-mounted safety, internal mag, case-hardened lever, no round counter. The SAVAGE99 website gives a 1913 date of manufacture, which is plainly wrong.

    The lever is very difficult to open through about 2/3 of its range. Closing from full open starts easily, but stiffens about 1/3 into the closing cycle, and remains difficult right up until the bolt tilts straight at lock up. "Difficult" and "stiff" mean I can't operate the lever without turning the rifle to grasp the outside of the lever and pulling outward. The problem is the same cycling empty or cycling rounds from the mag. Other than the stiffness in operating, rounds feed and eject perfectly. I have not yet fired the rifle. I removed the buttstock to examine the action - nothing looks broken and the action is not dirty.

    I'm not enough of a marksman to rely on never needing a quick follow-up shot, so any suggestion on the cause/cure?


    Can anyone suggest how I run down the year of manufacture?
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  • Floyd58523
    The internal lever is bent or you have corrosion on 1 of the pins binding the action. I would say look for a bent part as the action closes.
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  • dfletcher
    Regarding year of manufacture, the edge of the lever boss on the receiver should have a circle stamped with a letter inside. IIRC "A" is 1948, "B" is 1949 and so on.
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  • drl50
    Can tell you that the 99E "Economy Rifle" in .308 was first introduced in 1960 and discontinued in 1984.
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