During the war I'm sure finding cured and aged wood suitable for sporting gun stocks wasn't easy.
I'm not so sure that having extra T forearms in inventory from before the war isn't a logical answer or at least a possible or partial answer to the R/T.
And with Savage devoting so much of it production capacity to war time production wouldn't it only make sense for them to streamline their limited sporting production as much as possible? Offering one or two models makes perfect sense to me. And with the war time shortages building guns with the materials on hand doesn't seem like a stretch to me.
Just all speculation on my behalf and we will probably never know the real story, cause the guys that were making the decisions then are long gone.
Another Savage mystery lost to history.
Last edited by 99guy; 07/19/11.
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