Originally Posted by Calhoun

One newspaper article says "United States Government cartridges were used in the test." by the Savage rifle.. so it was chambered in 30-40 Krag according to this.

This article seems to indicate that all the Savage guns were .303 Savage both in the illustration and in the text. (I think this is about the same trials.)

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This one about it is from one of the unhappy competitors, the #3 marked paragraph is about the cartridges but does not specify the calibers, but does seem to indicate that the Savage rifles used different cartridges. Statement 2 is interesting because he didn't think Marlin was capable of making these rifles, he seems quite biased so I don't how much of this can be considered accurate.

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Gene