New(sort of) iron

[kurusu]

Originally Posted by sheepherder

You are right! I do prefer the longer PP. But I don't own either one.



Mine is the Model 1910. My LGS had a Model 1917 for a while, but I was not tempted. The grip was too extreme...

I'm looking at mine right now, trying to figure out where a LCI would be...

Just look at the ejection port of mine.
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[sheepherder]

Originally Posted by kurusu

Just look at the ejection port of mine.
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You got me. Except for the relieved slide opening, it looks like mine...Is the LCI on the side of the chamber???

I notice your magazine release actually sticks out a bit...Mine is flush and a pita to push in...

Lemme see if I can get a pic...I didn't realize until I opened my NRA Dis-assembly Handbook that the Savage has a staggered-row magazine...10 rounds...

Originally Posted by kurusu

I guess Bogey had smallish hands.

Alan Ladd must have had small hands too ("This Gun For Hire").

About the Savage. I also got one, it's from the Portuguese contract...

I spent two weekends on Terceira Island, two weeks apart. My GF at the time spent two weeks, twice, at the same location. Those people really know how to party! Seemed like there was a celebration every weekend!

[kurusu]

Originally Posted by sheepherder

You got me. Except for the relieved slide opening, it looks like mine...Is the LCI on the side of the chamber???

The LCI is around the barrel on the visible portion through the ejection port. It's a sort of T shaped spring that wraps around the barrel on the front, with the leg of the T on the mid portion of the visible barrel, it goes up to the rearmost end of the barrel and sticks out a bit if the chamber is loaded, the upper relieve of the ejection port is for you to put your index finger over it and feel the LCI in the dark. That thing can break quite easily if you try to remove it.
Got a drawing of the thing.


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Originally Posted by sheepherder

I notice your magazine release actually sticks out a bit...Mine is flush and a pita to push in...

You have the early magazine release. You push in the upper part of it to release the magazine. Mine is the later version, you push on the lower part.

Originally Posted by sheepherder

Lemme see if I can get a pic...I didn't realize until I opened my NRA Dis-assembly Handbook that the Savage has a staggered-row magazine...10 rounds...

Yup! It was the first pistol with a removable magazine to have that feature.

Originally Posted by sheepherder

Alan Ladd must have had small hands too ("This Gun For Hire").

Alan Ladd was no big fellow all around.

Originally Posted by sheepherder

I spent two weekends on Terceira Island, two weeks apart. My GF at the time spent two weeks, twice, at the same location. Those people really know how to party! Seemed like there was a celebration every weekend!

You're winning this one, I have never been to the Azores.