Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Savage Collectors Going to sell my .30-30 Win EG but....

Earliest checkered so far?

See pic #3 ... on the lower side of the forearm the checkering comes together, rather than a 1" gap or so between the points.

For the experts, do you think this checkering/pattern is original?

Good eye Keith.The pattern doesn't look right on the side shot of the forearm.My 303EG [img:center][/img] [img:center][/img]

My 379xxx eg 30-30. I've sent for a letter to get ship date and see if there was a later work order.

That checkering in the OP's pics is no more factory than my Aunt Fannie. Look how crude it is, and the diamonds are square instead of lengthened. Definitely aftermarket. The work of Bubba who maybe knew how to wield a checkering tool but was clueless how to lay out a pattern. (And if a factory checkerer caused an over-run at the end of every line like what you see here, he/she would have been out of a job. Those folks weren't the most accomplished checkerers in the business but even this is worse than any I ever saw.)

Also, the full length pic shows the checkering pattern on the fore end to be asymmetrical, unlike every pattern Savage ever used. The pic is too poor to clearly show the checkering on the wrist, but I get the impression it's dodgy too from the little I see.

Thanks for the kind words. I kind of thought it looked sort of crude myself the first time I pulled it from the shipping box. I think I'll still letter it just in case.

Uh, you might want to save the money to letter. Taint factory chekin. Won't enhance the value.

Gotta agree the checkering is after market, at least the forearm. Pic is kind of dark to see the buttstock, and some Spiegel guns had the buttstock checkered but not the forearm... But from what I can see it doesn't look quite right either.

Still, it's an EG in 30-30.. the only one I have is refinished and reblued and I'm happy to have it.

Save your money.Take the kid's to Mickey-D's

"Still, it's an EG in 30-30.. the only one I have is refinished and reblued and I'm happy to have it."



Agreed. It took me awhile to find this one and it's the only .30-30 EG I did find.

I sent off for a letter anyway. I've never done it on a firearm and it sounds fun. I'm interested to know more about it. Thanks guys.

Just got my letter back from Mr. Callahan today. I'm sure glad I lettered it. This rifle was shipped to Spiegel Inc. on September 10, 1937. So, third year of EG production.
Mr. Callahan attached a hand written note saying that the little compass is also factory original. I didn't think that was going to be the case. I'm pretty happy with that bit of info. So, it looks like I've just got an oddball factory EG ordered by Spiegel with a rushed factory checkering job to get it out the door.

Starting to rethink the idea of selling.

Congrats!
A few pics of the rifle and the factory letter would add to the edification of this group.

what is the buy now price

I'll try to get some better pics up in the next few days. I'm working night shift for awhile so my schedule is all off.
I'll get a picture up of the letter soon.

As for a "buy now" price I'm still figuring that one out:)

Keep it!!!!

Factory original compass? I'd like to see a picture of the letter.

another oddity for my next book.

Here are pics of the letter.

I'm planning on taking some real photos of the rifle with an actual camera (not a cell phone) as soon as I get a chance.

I am going to sell it because I don't shoot it and I don't hunt enough to warrant keeping it. I've got other rifles I don't mind dragging through the woods on the few occasions that I do get. I just want to figure out a fair price for both buyer and seller. More to come soon. Thanks for the help guys.

I'll try to get you some good photos. Your book looks interesting.