APD, I've been reading up on just about everything I can find since I picked this thing up. I'd heard about it in passing but had basically no knowledge about it. Ian and Forgotten Weapons is usually a pretty good bet for good information on weird and obsolete stuff.

Ismith, I'll definitely look out for that ammo. I was thinking about picking up some of the Dutch surplus that Liberty Tree has but it would probably be about the same.

Savage, I would've thought the opposite. It bears basically no resemblance to what it originally was so I figured it would be more of a shooter-grade piece. That's what it is for me, anyway. In the rocky hollows of the part of the Missouri Ozarks that I hunt in, doing their best to grow young white oaks and loblolly pines, that rifle will do just fine with it's very nice aperture sight. And it will be very nice to carry such a light rifle over those ridges and through all those hollows.