Recent Non-Luger Acquisitions

ithacaartist · 11-04-2019, 02:40 AM

These Savage pistols are interesting. While perusing auctions, I saw one that had a more traditional "tab" type spur on its hammer, while most seem to be the fluted ring type. I suspect it was an earlier example. Its rear sight, as on a couple of others I've observed, is a groove in the top of an upward swelling at the rear of the slide, whereas mine has a tiny rear sight dovetailed in. I guess I'll have to brush up on what these configurations mean in terms of when they were produced.

Their bolts and trigger systems are intriguing as well--very clever, quite intricate, and very finely made.

11-04-2019, 02:40 AM	#16
ithacaartist Twice a Lifer Lifetime Forum Patron Join Date: Mar 2011 Location: Atop the highest hill in Schuyler County NY Posts: 3,401 Thanks: 7,558 Thanked 2,643 Times in 1,393 Posts	These Savage pistols are interesting. While perusing auctions, I saw one that had a more traditional "tab" type spur on its hammer, while most seem to be the fluted ring type. I suspect it was an earlier example. Its rear sight, as on a couple of others I've observed, is a groove in the top of an upward swelling at the rear of the slide, whereas mine has a tiny rear sight dovetailed in. I guess I'll have to brush up on what these configurations mean in terms of when they were produced. Their bolts and trigger systems are intriguing as well--very clever, quite intricate, and very finely made. __________________ "... Liberty is the seed and soil, the air and light, the dew and rain of progress, love and joy."-- Robert Greene Ingersoll 1894