Ron Coburn told me that Savage had to go to stamped checkering because they couldn't hire enough people to do hand checkering without messing up a lot of stocks. The factory couldn't afford to throw out those messed up stocks. A lot of the other changes also appeared to be a cost thing. David
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With Savage never say never.
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