A few 1971 rifles have a Y stamp, but most rifles in 1971 don’t have one.
In 1949 the date code was A, and it increased each year skipping O and Q. This date code is on 99’s only from 1949 to 1970, and is always preceded by numbers. The numbers indicate the inspector, and the letter indicates the year. On Savage 99’s it is on the front of the lever above the serial number, and is a letter inside an oval stamp preceded by 1 or 2 numbers. Each model was only offered for a year.ĭating with the Savage Date Codes 1949 – 1970įrom sometime in 1949 through 1970, Savage Arms and Stevens stamped a date code on almost all firearms. * Commemorative 99s : Dates for the 75th Anniversary 1895, the 99CE and 99RMEF are accurate for the year. These dates are very accurate for that manufacturing step, but may not reflect when the rifle was fully finished or shipped. * December, 1968 – 2001+ : Dates for rifles in this time frame are dates that serial numbers were stamped on the receivers during the manufacturing process. Any given rifle might be shipped months or years after the average rifle in that serial number range. So these dates can vary even more than the accepted from factory dates for the “average” ship time. Rifles weren’t always shipped in order, and some models/chamberings sold better than others and thus sat in the shipping dept longer. Savage Arms no longer recorded the accepted from factory dates in the ledgers. * Fall of 1926 – December, 1968 : The dates in this serial range are when the rifles were shipped from the factory. Any given rifle might be finished months or even a year+ later than the average rifle in that serial number range, though. From there it would have been stored and ready to ship.
* 1895 – fall of 1926 : The dates returned above are the date the rifles probably was finished and accepted from the factory. The ledgers record different things over time, and we use the “best” dates that we have for each year. What Is The Date? So, what does a “ Date“ returned from a web site or book for your Savage rifle actually mean? Well, what it means varies by time periods.
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