I did a little research for you....
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Also...couldn't anyone just buy a replacement laminate stock and putit on a standard synthetic stocked model and have the same gun?
Here is the exact stock for sale...
http://www.midwayusa.com/eproductpage.exe/showproduct?saleitemid=622197
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Looks to me like a standard production gun that theymade for more than one year, (thus the accutrigger
and nonaccutrigger models.) Also it appears as if it was written about in major publications. Most likely they ceased production due to slow sales would be my guess...
Guns & Loads
Savage Model 16BSS
By Daryl Carson
Part of Savage's Weather Warrior series, the 16BSS joins the short-magnum crowd and does so in a package designed to hunt in all types of conditions. Now chambered in both .270 WSM and 7mm WSM, the stainless steel action is dual-pillar bedded and matched with a free-floated barrel. The 24-inch button-rifled barrel is built for out-of-the-box accuracy. An internal box magazine holds two rounds, and the rifle weighs 7 3/4 pounds. Available in both brown laminate and synthetic stocks. Suggested retail: $668. Savage, (413) 568-7001,
www.savagearms.com
http://www.huntingmag.com/guns_loads/savage_0205/
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Apparently the NRA was selling em too...
http://www.nrafoundation.org/friends/Savage.asp
The 16BSS Weather Warrior is made by Savage Arms, Inc. . This stainless steel 300 WSM Short Action rifle with a laminated brown stock features a 3-9x40 Simmons 8 point scope mounted and bore sighted. The NRA Medallion is inserted in the stock.
