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HistoricBore
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Re: Savage 99 .22 Hi-power with provenance
04/11/20 04:15 AM

Hi Marrakai

I also have a similar takedown .22HP Savage 99, serial no. 335xxx from 1931. It was retailed my Manton's of Calcutta, India and is cased. The rifle cost 165 rupees and the case cost 50. It would have been exported direct from the USA to India to avoid British taxes.

It was bought by a Captain Gordon, a Scot who was in the Indian Army Medical Corps. He no doubt used it for some hunting whilst on leave. It cam back to London in 1947 when India became independent and went into storage with W. W. Greener, according to a sticker on it. I presume that the storage costs stopped being paid and so it was sold off. I bartered an Elgin Cutlass pistol for it and some other bits about 15 years ago.

It had four original cartridges in the case, which I chronographed at 2,750 fps, exactly as advertised.It shoots like a dream and is easy to reload for, using S&B Czech components.

Somewhere I have a photograph.....

HB

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Savage 99 .22 Hi-power with provenance	Marrakai	02/11/20 05:48 PM
Re: Savage 99 .22 Hi-power with provenance	93x64mm	02/11/20 10:54 PM
Re: Savage 99 .22 Hi-power with provenance	85lc	03/11/20 08:46 AM
Re: Savage 99 .22 Hi-power with provenance	DarylS	03/11/20 11:23 AM
Re: Savage 99 .22 Hi-power with provenance	HistoricBore	04/11/20 04:15 AM
Re: Savage 99 .22 Hi-power with provenance	DarylS	05/11/20 03:39 AM
Re: Savage 99 .22 Hi-power with provenance	tinker	05/11/20 04:29 AM
Re: Savage 99 .22 Hi-power with provenance	rigbymauser	05/11/20 07:40 AM
Re: Savage 99 .22 Hi-power with provenance	NitroX	05/11/20 10:37 AM

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