This Day in History: Savage 99 is Patented

By Logan Metesh

U.S.A. –-(Ammoland.com)- On October 3, 1899, Arthur Savage received US patent number 63,4034 for a firearm that would become known as the Savage Model 99. I’d be willing to bet that Mr. Savage was relieved when the patent was finally approved, since he had originally filed it almost a year and a half earlier on April 21, 1897.

With the Model 99, Savage had improved on his previous hammerless, lever-action rifle – the Model 1895, which was equipped with a rotary magazine that allowed it to fire pointed Spitzer-type rounds without the worry of accidental ignition in a traditional lever-action tubular magazine. The early variants of this new model still utilized the same rotary magazine as his Model 1895, but the Model 99 would eventually see the greatest improvement to date: a detachable box magazine. The models with this kind of magazine were designated the Model 99C.

Born in Kingston, Jamaica, Arthur Savage was an exceptionally interesting fellow. When he was in his 30s, which was during the late 1880s, Savage moved his family to Australia as homesteaders. While it certainly wasn’t an …Read the Rest

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