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Just shake my head at the Portuguese M/915 Manual paper. One of my 'white whales', I have two boxes but never scored the paper ... yet. John W made me a copy of manual for reference.

Hello guys! I only have 1 Savage pistol, a 1907 in .380 that I'm working on fixing. I've been able to find most of the parts to repair it. Still trying to get a new style sear for it. And it appears there should be a pin for the sear to pivot on too. Will probably have to make a loaded chamber indicator.

Welcome to the Campfire DK65.
Sounds like you are on the right track for your repair.
I don't have donor parts or pistol, but ebay has parts from time to time and donor pistols can be had occasionally too.
If you figure out how to make a load indicator for either .32 or .380, make extras and come back to sell them here.

Greetings Dan, did you ever find your .380 Parts?

There is no pin in any of the M1907 sears. The small hole in the breechbolt behind the sear houses a sear spring, sear rotates on its small 'arm'.

Your pistol must be M1907-13-Mod 2 or higher as you specifically said 'new style' sear. I assume a Type 3, as The Type 3 fits .380 M1907-13-Mods 2 through 4, M1907-19 and M1907-20 variants.

I am pretty sure I have all the parts you need.

I even have a few spare cartridge indicators but do not sell them, reserving them for critical restorations. Be careful trying to make one unless you absolutely only use it for display. I and my brother have been down the road of trying to fabricate them by hand and quotes from commercial sources. Firing one with a hand-made one with no tempering is 'exciting' if it deflects with return to battery and catches the slide ... I suspect that is the reason so many were broken. Can be done, but due to fabrication setup, minimal unit runs, tempering etc, no one would buy them when the unit price will exceed a nice pistol.

I am not too frequent on here but trying to do better You can contact me directly at Savage1907aol.com.

Best,
Also DK

I have not bought any Savage pistols in years but I still have few in the back of the safe. Some are pristine, some are practically worn smooth but they all work.

Very nice !

Wow! You guys have some really nice pistols and displays. May have to think about to start looking into them myself. I’m sure the wife will be thrilled.

That takes an incredible commitment.

Impressive.

Absolutely nothing much to see here. But then again, I don't really seek them out.

1917 in .380 that came with the Audley holster. And a 1907 in 32. I liked them both so here we are. And I also picked up the 101 years ago along with it's box and some papers

Ok, so there are the Murray and Royal reference books for collecting 99’s. What would be the equivalent books for collecting Savage pistols?
Thanks

Bailey Brower's book would be a good start. See the picture in the first post on this thread.

Ok thanks Steve99

Brower Period!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The equivalent would be;
- Savage Automatic Pistols/James Carr/1968
- Savage Pistols/Bailey Brower/2008

Both are excellent Savage Pistol books.
Carr's is more of a reference book and Bailey's a coffee table book.
Carr wrote with respect to .32's & .380's and Bailey with respect to models 1907/15/17.