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I just got a nice 340 A, 30-30, definitely not my kind of gun, but,
the guy wanted some trees cut and didn't have money, so...we traded.
no serial number that I can find, Chicopee address at least.

I can hardly contain my enthusiasm...How much?

it is shweeeeet! not prettyenuf for pics though

lauren,Well its a Savage,and in 30-30!! sounds like a truck gun to me.Don

Maybe if ya prop it up with some EGs it will hold up a tomato plant.


Mike

Savage + .30/30= some good shooting. The 340 is just about the homeliest rifle to ever come down the pike, IMO. But they will shoot, and do feel good in the hand. The only reason I ever cross the road to look at one is because of the sentimental memories of my old man keeping us in venison with one. I gave that rifle to my USNA Midshipman nephew just to make doubly dam* sure it stays in the family.

By the way, I found another spare magazine (.30/30) for it. He doesn't want it. Can anybody here use it?

Gary

Jed stop taking them Snipe pills.

Claim to fame: the barrel nut! (Although its progenitor, the Stevens Model 325 with the classy butter knife bolt handle, did introduce that method of barrel fitting.)
Hope to take my new-to-me Western Auto .222 to the range tomorrow. The 340 series guns are as homely as a mud fence, but I find them superior to an awful lot of today's production.

the 340-325-840 are excellent working firearms. meat getters. They stopped the production of the 340 in 1987, and in 1988 made a few for a sporting good outfit. They stopped the production since it was competing with the 110. The 110 is money gun ( they make a profit) the 340 they loss money ( cost was more then it sold for) The 110 will not only get the neat, but will hold a better group

Which came first, the chicken or the egg? I thought the 340 spawned all of the other econo-rifles with that action, i.e. the 840, 325, the Stevens permutations, etc. Was it the brainchild of someone in Savage engineering or someone else? I always thought that Stevens was the poor stepchild of Savage after the merger (what a tragedy) and that the "340 Series" that carried the Stevens name were merely "badge engineered", to steal an automotive phrase.

I feel the 340's are still serving the same role they did back in the 50' and 60's. An affordable, decent(but not tremendous) shooting, serviceable rifle for someone who aspires to something better but can't afford it. Of the handfull of guys I've known to buy one over the years, that is exactly the reason why they did it. Now they're starting to garner collector interest it seems. Sort of a cult following within the Worshipful Order of Savages.

affordability, was the key to the 340 series, The thought was to have the guy with the pickup truck who was working a modest job, to be able to own a bolt action firearm, to put meat on the table, and be able to have firearm he could get in the woods with easily. It was not made to be a long range firearm with 1/2 inch groups. " It was introduced in 1947 as the Stevens 320 series (Stevens 322, 325, and 330), but in 1950 was taken back under the Savage name as the Savage 340 series. They were all inexpensive rifles with detachable box magazines."

Did get to the range today with my Western Auto .222, and had the place all to myself! (Apparently the snow here last week-end still has the natives sitting by their wood stoves...) Unfortunately, the scope mount went sour on me after a box of cartridges.(I had two - Hornady 50 grain VMax, the least expensive I could find at $18.99 a box! When I was in high school .222 Remington ammunition was $2.85 for 20.) Rifle does show promise in spite of an atrocious trigger.Frank de Haas has a good discussion of the 340 in his "Bolt Action Rifles." Have to get it out and see what he says about the trigger. Cult following? Could be. I had a Stevens 325 in 30-30, and a 340 in .225 Winchester. I'm pleased with the .222 since it has potential, and it was super affordable (I'm retired; no more overtime shifts or details to fund the obsession...). Waiting on some screws from Weaver, and more bad weather to keep the range clear.

When I was in high school in the '50's (that's 1950's), several of the kids got Savage 340 .30-30's as their first deer rifles. I thought they were seriously ugly, and saved until I could afford a Rem. 760 in .30-06. But today, when I look at the latest and greatest Tupperware stocked super dupers, those 340's look downright beautiful.

the 340 is what it is, but yea, compared to a lot of guns that came after it, it is kinda nice, more so, now that i own one.
i remember buying one around 1977 for $ 25,

I had one a couple of years ago and it was actually accurate enough and a joy to carry. I did the usual stupid thing and sold it. Have done that too many times. Enjoy the 340. Jim