My 1927 99 G:


It has had several optics rigs over the years under my stewardship.
It came with a rear leaf + old style front post. The first iteration was to install an old Lyman aperture. With the Lyman it was 18 inches high at 20 yards and I swapped in a much higher front post and got excellent results with three rounds at 100 yards (magenta background):



Then for fun I got a Stith mount with a Lyman Alaskan on eBay. It looked great:

But the rear ring was a bit loose and I do not have much mechanical ability.
So, with disclosure of the loose ring, I sold the Stith and the Alaskan.
The Lyman aperture was also sold.
I lost a little selling the Stith/Alaskan and made a little selling the Lyman aperture.

So now it is back to a rear leaf and the original lower front post.
The rear leaf is the old stlye with an adjustment screw and is marked "Savage"





But I had no idea if it would be anywhere near on paper. Windage or Elevation.
So I took a 5.56 laser bore sighting cartridge and dropped it into the chamber. With a little playing with my finger I was able to seat the small cartridge and get a nice small spot on the wall across the room. The rear leaf and front post look good enough for a first shot on a big piece of paper at 25 yards.

I will let the Forum know how it turns out

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I would have kept the Stith mount no matter what.

Seems you have owned the 99 for awhile, so you probably know that it is simple to form .300 Savage brass from .308 Win. Just FL size, and shorten the neck.

I would like to see a good pic of a 99 rear sight from a 1950 era model.
Mine has a after market folding leaf, probably to make clearence for scope.
Front blade has been replaced higher, which made it close with Tang. I have not shot it in serious sight in yet. Will put scope on it to develope a
load and then look for a reciever sight.

I got lucky with my 1941 EG as it had a sourdough front sight installed at some point that worked with the factory rear buckhorn sight, so it was a simple matter of finding a low-mounted receiver peep sight (Lyman 57) for the rifle.

Drm50, this should be the correct rear sight for a 1940s-1950s 99:

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