I owned one, twice, and don't own it now. Sold it to a member here many years ago. It had "tin can" accuracy, and a lousy trigger pull. An answer to a dubious question IMO. Still in all I think they are a reasonable tool for instructing a rank newbie with, and have value to fill a hole in an otherwise complete Savage collection. I just couldn't warm up to it and divested myself of it even though it had been my dad's (he didn't care for it either and pawned it off on me).
If I had a kid who wanted to learn pistol shooting I would buy a quality .22 revolver with good sights and a good trigger, and have something of heirloom quality worth passing down through the generations. No less safe than a Savage 101. If cost were no object I would scare up something like a Stevens Black Diamond, tip-up single shot target pistol, but that's an impractical idea in this day and age of collector's having driven the value of them through the roof. Grrrr. Darned collectors! Just my opinion, worth about as much as a bucket of warm spit.
I learned the art of the pistolero with a Colt Woodsman at age 12. Small wonder I haven't been without one or another Woodsman for over 4 decades now.
