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They had it listed as serial number '0' but the gun has the second style stock that came out sometime around serial number 10,000 - so I am thinking 1904 or later. That number has to be just a factory identification number of some sort IMO.
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Have you ever heard of any gun company starting with serial number 0 anyways instead of serial number 1? I guess I could see them making the gun much later and for some reason not wanting to stamp it with an in sequence serial number b/c it would be a saleman's sample, so just stamped it with a 0. But I'd be hard pressed to believe that its the very first 1903 ever made.
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Maybe had to stamp it something to log it in as an R & D gun. Does anyone know if Savage used a log to track R & D project guns?
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