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If David Royal can do it you can too. Get a grip exerciser, eat lots of fruit and vegetables, and get plenty of sleep.

I'll take #23 and #250 if still available. I had #22, #23 and #250 on Davids book. But, I started feeling greedy and passed off #250 to Gary, I think?

Very Cool Rory, I'm in for one! If you have any interest in spicing things up with vintage photos contact me, I know a guy.

Rory,

I'm in for for 3. Don't need any numbered stuff.

Thanks for doing this.

Jim

What form is this going to take? Bound book, pamphlet, cell phone app?

Thanks, Gary! I'd love to include old ads and photographs as page fillers. How many I'll be able to squeeze in will depend on how the page count ends up. Got enough for a 800 page book, but that's not exactly something you'd be able to carry around.

Mike, I'm looking for this to be a soft cover bound book. After playing with different font sizes and seeing how much detail is visible in pictures - and realizing that much of the gun collector community doesn't have 20 year old eyes, it'll probably be on a slightly larger size paper than a normal paperback.

When are you going to do the app? Just scan yer lever gun with the phone and a complete pedigree appears!

Calhoun, I’ll take number 300. I meet you at Cabelas in Maine.

That app would melt down at Fug's.. twice. Once from quantity, a second time from all the special order non-standard guns!

It'd have a psychotic break at my place from all the d&t guns and recoil pads.

Hi Rory,

Just got back from Florida and was happy to see you are going to follow through with the book you first mentioned to me at the Pennsylvania fest!
Please reserve a couple of early signed copies for me. And please feel free to call on me for anything I can help with. Any particular reason you are going with the soft cover? I would love to see a hard cover matching Royal and Baileys, or Murrays. I would love to be of assistance to you.
John

get a stamp

Signing them is not that tough Rory.

How is your book going to laid out?

I like the model by model lay out of Doug Murray's book, but would prefer if it had been printed on letter size paper and sold in a 3-ring binder, so that I could add/insert notes and ads and such. I tore one of Murray's books apart and put the pages in clear document protectors so that could insert notes and ads and such.

Be prepared to be nit picked and criticized for not doing a good enough job, 'cause there seem to be more critics than well-wishers out there.

Kindle version? Nothing like curling up with a good Kindle and a hot toddy in front of the fire.

A labor of love by both Rory and David. We’re very fortunate.

I like the three ring binder idea for the technologically challenged of us.

Some good ideas, and I agree with many of them.

But I want a book that's fairly transportable. I tried out different sizes to see how well it worked with pictures and text, and I didn't think a standard paperback size would be good. So at the moment, I'm leaning towards a 6"x9" or similar page size. Anything above that becomes a desk reference - which is fine, but not what I'm aiming at to start with.

It won't be impossible for me to produce a different size in the future, but there will be a lot of reformatting and layout to do for a different book size. So initially it'll probably be on 6"x9", and then maybe a larger version can come out a year or two later.

No e-books.. at least not for a while. I don't think it's ready for this type of book yet.

Models will be ordered by the year they were introduced. While that puts some models in a weird order, it makes it easy for a non-Savage person to skim through the book looking at serial number ranges to see which model might match his.

"So easy that a Cabela's gun library guy can use it" would be a good motto.

And yes, Jeff, I know it'll be nitpicked and my decisions on some things will be attacked left and right (1921, anybody?). I'm definitely open to corrections, but some things we'll just always have to agree to disagree with.

Oh - and it should be possible to print corrected/updated editions every couple of years. Because we never stop learning..

PS: Actually... it might be possible to offer it in both hardback and softback with 6"x9" pages at the beginning. Don't have to reformat for the same size pages. I'll check into that.. no promises. It'd be a bit bigger than Carr's pistol book.

Sure, I remember running into you there. Stopped by Cabela's in the evening and nothing interesting, but was told a "guy" was bringing in a couple in the morning. I show up and meet another campfire member! Small world! Fun chatting with you and your wife, mine was shaking her head over the fact that we went 1600 miles and were still running into Savage loonies that know each other!

Glad you figured out your password.

6x9 is a good size for a fairly portable reference book.
Could leave 4-5 blank pages in the back of the book for notes. ??

Timing is about right too. Sounds like the last of Murray's books will run out soon.
An updated replacement will fill the niche.

That's not so amazing. There are only so many of us Savage guys, and we are all here, so, of course we know each other!