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A fellow collector I know has asked for help in understanding some anomalies with a Savage 1907 he has.

The pistol is a .32 1907-19 modification 1, made 1919, the next-to-last version of the model 1907.

The front and rear sights have been modified, and a channel cut into the top of the slide (presumably to accompany the modified sights). A threaded hole has been tapped into about the middle of the backstrap.

He tells me that "the gun shoots dead center at 20' and groups very well - 2 mags and all shots within the 8 ring about 2"."

Have you ever seen similar modifications? Any idea why they would have been done?

I don't think any of these are factory modification. The most likely explanation for these modifications that comes to mind is that a previous owner added some sort of stock (the photos include an example of an old aluminum stock that may have been for Savage pistols, although that is not certain and no information is known about the stock other than its size, 14" x 3.25"), used a screw to help hold it to the pistol butt, and modified the sights in hopes of being able to accurately hit targets at long distance.

Thanks,

Bill







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I have no idea, but there was a buttstock like the one in your photo recently on eBay.

Rod

I'll take a stab and agree that with a shortened front sight they needed to file a site line for longer range shooting. With the add on stock for a solid hold for some long range plinking. I can't see any other reason.

Yeah, that's where I saw it. Looks very homemade. I was tempted to bid on it, but between not knowing if it would fit my Savage pistols and if it did fit the hassle of having them suddenly becoming short barreled rifles (SBR, requiring a special license that takes months to get, $200 transfer tax, etc) just by the thing being present in their vicinity put me off it.

What killed it was that when I asked the seller the width of the channel the pistol butt fits in, which would have at least given me some idea if the Savages would fit, he never replied.

Bill