Rick C said
Very nice rifle and great photos mrcvs. I was always intrigued by the first commercial cartridge to reach 3000fps(70gr bullet) and wanted one. The 1899 was well ahead of its time. 🤐
  

Those are auction house photographs, as I’m not nearly that good.  Another one came up for auction recently, not quite as nice as mine, but almost so, and the hammer price was attractive.  I didn’t bid on it as I was chasing down something else later in the auction.  Had I to do it over in retrospect, I would have bid on it.

Rick C said
Thanks.
Top to bottom:
First year 1899 250-3000 perch belly made in 1915 TD, pg, 22" bl checkering,
99F TD 22" bl feather weight, 303 made in 1928.
99E 22” bl scarce solid frame 22 Hi Power made in 1932
99H bl band carbine 20" bl 30-30 made in 1934.
Also have a scarce high condition Savage model 1895 with octagon bl and has the bolt cocking indicator and shot indicator 5000 serial number range made in 1896.
Ammo came from gun shows and GI.
  

I also have a .250-3000 from 1915.  What amazes me about this cartridge is that it’s not a necked down .303 Savage, but, instead, the parent case is .30-06.

Top to bottom:

First year 1899 250-3000 perch belly made in 1915 TD, pg, 22" bl checkering,

99F TD 22" bl feather weight, 303 made in 1928.

99E 22” bl scarce solid frame 22 Hi Power made in 1932

99H bl band carbine 20" bl 30-30 made in 1934.

Also have a scarce high condition Savage model 1895 with octagon bl and has the bolt cocking indicator and shot indicator 5000 serial number range made in 1896.

Ammo came from gun shows and GI.

Rick C said
While we’re on the topic, a few of mine. And very nice gun mrcvs. I’m jealous. 
 

I think yours are beautiful!  How about details on each?  And where did you get the vintage ammunition?  I need that to complete the package!

While the 30 Winchester was still common among East Texas hunters in the postwar years (after that area's deer herd recovered from Depression Era poaching and the screw worm),  Central and West Texas saw a lot of Savage rifles, particularly after Bill Weaver made scopes affordable for the working man. As I recall,  both the EG and the R were factory drilled and tapped when production restarted in the late Forties.

The pictured custom 1899 apparently took some time to build, accounting for the order and delivery dates. The sights and checking are excellent, if not unique.

I own a Savage EG 1899 in 250-3000 and Arthur Savage derived a first rate  usable rifle. For Canadian readers, a 99 in 30 WCF belonging to one Albert Johnson kept the RCMP busy for a good while in the Northwest Territories about 1932-33. Still one of the longest manhunts in Canadian enforcement history.

The history of the 1895 and the 30-03 Govt cartridge is also quite a story. In the 1980s, I owned two 1895 carbines in 30-03 caliber. Wish I still owned them now.

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