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They do have a system where info from letters is saved, but I know very little about it. I'm not sure a search of lettered rifles would be representative of the larger set of rifles, since it's the more interesting rifles that tend to be lettered. Maybe I can trade some consulting time for research time after they get things digitized.

I'm a bit surprised that Vista Outdoors took the ledgers back. And as soon as it went private the ledgers went out the door to Cody. So.. i don't know what's up with Savage nowadays.

I'm just glad that they ended up at Cody and have finely been digitized.

Will be digitized.. they aren't yet.

Going to the Cody Museum the end of this month if anyone has something they want me to check on….

You may have to spend a month there with this offer.....😁

Elwood, they’ve moved almost all the Savage guns to an area downstairs in the firearm museum with red slide out vertical drawers. No longer in a window display. And the lighting is poor. Look for the drawers marked S.

You''re probably right...scratch that.

Thank you...

I'm sorry to hear that. I think Savages deserve better.

Sounds like the current Savage owners did sumpin to piss 'em off?

David, I hope you can get some insight on that based on your interaction with them.

A shame to be relegated to a drawer...

I will definitely ask them. The curators in 2015 when I was there were trying to get me to donate some of my Savages. I sure as hell won't donate any if they are going in a dark drawer. The NRA can get some good out of selling them for money to fight the gun control politicians.

Many here think that the Savage records going to Cody is a great thing their was some better

place that they could have gone Cody was built as a home for Winchester all others

are just stuff for income not so much for history

They reorganized the firearms museum a couple years ago, and it’s very nice. But.. it does have more of a Winchester centric feel to it now.

Didn’t Savage donate some of their old machines to them? Gone off display, but Winchester equipment is on display.

It has been is now and will always be the home of WINCHESTER many great guns

will never get the light shown on them that they should that's too bad as is the

case with Savage collectors when asked what you collect and you say Savage

the other person asking will many times say o you collect them as they look

down their nose at you

I wish that I had something to add. But I do not The books should have stayed amongst us or at least you guys. I will say this. When we lost JTC and the legers ended up where they are, I lost any desire to request a letter. Not that that matters.

Fug is right.. Cody wouldn’t be much of anything if Winchester hadn’t donated their collection. Winchester made them. And there are far more Winchester fans than most any other type.

I’d rather the Savage ledgers stayed in private hands... and there’d have been risks in that as well. Many are already water damaged, so fire/water/storage/handling accidents, even inheritance would be eventual concerns there. But I think it’s better they are at Cody than at Savage. Just my opinion.

At least a lot of history is being saved

The Cody museum is on the bucket list.

My folks have been a couple times.

Think that’s where my dad shot the Gatling gun. 😁

There’s a good podcast out from the the curators of the museum. Danny amd Ashley.

“History Unloaded”. Great way to kill time in the road.

There's actually a company in Cody which has a gatling gun you can fire, as well as other firearms. Prices weren't too bad. Stopped by to look, but didn't shoot.

Gatling guns are really cool to shoot.