Yes, Savage is still around making rifles. Yes, S&W is a completely different company. ...but... If S&W can work with Walther, why can't they work with Savage and get whatever rights they need to make this classic Art Deco Handgun?
It looks cool. It's a nice size for concealment. I want one. I don't have a ton of money. And, the gun show examples don't look all that great.
Posts: 100 | Location: Georgia | Registered: 02 May 2008
There would need to be a redesign of the safety system IMO.
"Never part with your weapons when you are in the field. You never know when, on some lengthy plain, you may suddenly need your spear." From the Norse book of wisdom, The Havamal.
Posts: 1371 | Location: Michigan's Upper Peninsula, USA | Registered: 29 July 2004
Now this is a different wish from what most wish for these days. I like it. I've come close to buying one of the Savage automatics several times. It's "on my list". They appear well made and their magazine design is quite innovative. I love the classic Savage 99 so probably need a Savage automatic pistol too.
Posts: 3431 | Location: North Texas | Registered: 14 January 2006
I spent 25 years or better waiting for the right gun to come at a time when I also had the money to spend. Happened... I think it's been about a year or so (year and a half?) ago. Bought it with the previous year's tax returns, I believe. Made late in 1909, still has its original finish and cost me $450, before taxes and fees. Well, that's what comes when you live in Kalifornia! Wish I could have found one for $250....
However, what I'd wish to see is something that almost was... a .45 ACP version, like the prototypes tested by the military. You know, the same tests that gave us the Colt 1911, and only because the Colt was already in civilian production, while the Savage was only a prototype. Otherwise, the Savage and Colt had been the only two guns to survive the test, with the Savage actually edging out the Colt, performance-wise. If not for the need to produce tooling for mass production, the Savage would have probably won, and gun history would have been quite different.
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Posts: 1278 | Location: Northern California | Registered: 01 August 2005
My old friend, the late Lee Good, was the research curator at the J.M. Davis Gun Museum in Claremore, OK. Once when I visited the museum and was looking at an example of thje Savage .45 there, Lee told me he'd shot one, and that the recoil was indeed savage.
Posts: 4344 | Location: Lubbock, TX, US | Registered: 20 May 2004
