Savage Sporter, Model 23A

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This old 23A Sporter (late 1920's) was acquired many years ago as a gift for my father-in-law. It was a little rough then with no magazine so I took it completely apart for refurbish. I stripped the old blue and had every thing re-blued. I refinished the stock myself with hand rubbed tung oil. The magazine was very hard to find around here, but I located 3 at OGCA one year. It's the same mag used on the NRA Match Rifle (so marked on the mag). Well, my father-in-law passed away several years ago and my mother-in-law gave it back to me. Here it stays as as memento for my wife The bore is fantastic and it shoots great.
 

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.22 LR with single stage trigger. I do like it's one piece barrel/receive but the one piece schnabel stock is what got me going. The magazines were going for $50-60 then.
 
Recently acquired one myself, does your magazine have the ‘knob’ on it?
 
Nice job on the re-finish! Great little rifle.

i did a chemical strip of the blue, covered it in heavy oil and gave it to Ken Lunquist at Tucker Gun (now closed/retired). Took 7 months but they did a great job on the metal. I wish ken was still around.
 
Savage continues to make fine guns, very accurate, but practical. I had a 110 a couple years ago in .243, with their newer adjustable trigger. Took it Prairie Dog hunting and it would reach out way beyond the 400-500 yards my eye's limited me to. A large dog hit within 300 yards or so would flip 3-6 ft in the air.
 
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