Yes, Calhoun's, David Royal's, and Murray's books are all required reading. Get them, digest them, and be prepared to sit for an exam next month. It'll be a written exam and the results will be posted for all to see. If our panhandling efforts, windshield squeegee operations, and Nigerian Prince scams pay off this Christmas season we will have the funds to send Rory (Calhoun) to your house to administer an oral exam too, and then swear you into The Society of Lost Souls (also known as Society of Savage 99 Loonies). Good luck!
I think one more book needs to be written to include detailed chapters in maintenance, preservation, modifications, ammunition needs/loading, scopes/sights, etc. The history and models of Savage lever guns is now pretty well covered with exacting thoroughness, but all the stuff I mentioned is still in the realm of oral history, so to speak, spoken of and then lost in the wind - only to be repeated again when someone asks the same repetitive questions, and answered again, and again lost in the wind.
