It's great to see you again, Drew! Please don't be a stranger!
One has to consider the time period. The post-war years of gun making (and car building, and refrigerators, and...) were a lean time in terms of raw material availability coupled with higher demand from those millions of GI's returning home and wanting to make up for lost time, confounded by obsolete pre-war designs and parts bins full of the makings of them. Companies like Savage had no choice but to use up a lot of crap that in other circumstances would've just been tossed in the landfill, or suffer the consequences.
