Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Savage Collectors Did Savage Ever Make a 219 in .22 Shot?

There's one listed on Gunbroker. I've never seen or heard of such a thing, but I'm no expert.

There were .22 LR shot versions put on both 220 and 219 receivers. I think some of them were made up by Numrich's after they bought the leftover parts at Savage's Utica factory. But the barrels were definitely made by Savage, and I think that they were for regular CF receivers that took these RF barrels with the bore offset so the CS firing pins worked (an old trick used by some schuetzen barrel makers so their customers could shoot cheap practice).

I have one on an early action. It is blued and has the formed sheetmetal trigger guard, manually engaged safety. The one on GunBroker is in a later action, I like to see all the markings on it to see if they match. The assembly stamps on the barrel and receiver of mine match and it has a Stevens inspection mark of the number 20 in a circle which is often found on '30's vintage guns. All the markings are consistent with guns made at Chicopee Falls, which is where I think all these were made.

Bore is offset lower to work with a standard firing pin location.



More pictures here- 24hourcampfire/895524

The stock on mine had been cut off quite short and I thought it would be easy to find a replacement, not so, a couple I've tried do not fit well to the receiver. I found that the receiver to stock fit is a little different on the early receiver, so later stocks do not fit very well. Here are stocks swapped with a later 220 -



inspection stamps


I think Savage experimented with 22 SHOT for a time in the. There is at least one Model 6 in 22 SHOT, I think it's probably a one of a kind R&D gun -
Model 6 22 SHOT The price listed is without the added 20% premium.

I requested more pictures and the bolt in it is milled down to lighten it so it could cycle with the lighter recoiling shot cartridges, I don't know if that worked though, you do not see semi-autos in 22 SHOT, there was one company that tried that, but I do not think they functioned reliably.

I have a factory barrel for a Model 5 bolt action in 22 SHOT -


Both barrels are counterbored larger at the muzzle.

My barrels only has the patent for the Model 5 stamped on it, the Model 6 linked to above has that patent, which still covers some of the semi-auto design, plus "OTHERS PENDING" under it which is correct for early Model 6's.