Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Savage Collectors Takedown and Quick Takedown changeover?

Some here may have seen my earlier posting on the late Take Down 1899H or real early 99F, whatever it is I just got. I was skeptical when I found it because I had a bad experience long ago with a Quick Takedown 250 calibre. It had the interrupted barrel thread that only needs a 1/4 turn to release. Gun had a tang peep and was by far the most inaccurate rifle I ever owned before and since. Barrel didn't seem too loose, bore and rifling were good, but gun sprayed bullets and I could could barely keep them on a pie plate at 30 or so yards, and that was from a rest. Ever since then I stayed away from Take Downs until this last one I couldn't pass due to Condition. Opposite experience, this 30-30 Takedown is a very fine and accurate shooter. I haven't taken the barrel off, and don't intend to because it looks like it was on the receiver since day one. I assume it has the full thread and needs many turns to unscrew. May be I'm wrong on that.

With this background I ask if the Quick Takedown, interrupted thread design preceded the full thread Take Down model, or vice versa? Is there a serial # that would mark a transition either way? Thanks for replies.
Joe

If your barrel is marked Savage Arms Corporation (rather than "Company") your barrel will be a full turn rather than a 1/4 turn TD. Telling us the serial range would have also allowed us to tell which barrel style you have.
Likely inaccuracy was caused by bore problems and not TD, in my humble opinion.
The 1/4 turn was made first, cut off near 200,000 range but not certain as to exact number or whether there was an overlap.
BillR

It was earlier than 200,000 - don't have my notes here, but probably closer to 190,000.

In my experience, TD's can shoot just fine. I admit that a solid frame gun may (or may not) shoot better, all else being equal. They are my favorites for other reasons, and the fact that I never had a "bad" shooting one is icing on the cake.

I have 1/4 tread 1899H 22HP # 1930XX and full thread 250-3000 #2043XX. I think we have narrowed the range before on the forum but my brain has not retained the exact numbers.
BillR

I could very likely be wrong.. I was thinking it was around 193,xxx. I'll go search.

Highest # that I have owned is 198,8xx, the highest number I have in my data from Rick is 201,5xx

Blair, is that for the 1/4 twist?

Yes it is, both 22 hp's.

Looks like my memory was way off and BillR was on the money (no shock there). Have to get all those notes entered into a word doc and copied to my smartphone one of these days.