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In a ratty old issue of American Rifleman, I found one of those articles where they give a short history of, and diagrammed instructions for dismantling, the gun-of-the-month. In this instance, it's about the Savage autoloading pistol. The magazine is basically trashed, but the pages with this article are ok. If anybody wants it, I'll clip it and send it to you. Give me a shout via PM, first come first served.

Any way to post up pictures of it? I would love to see it. dont necessarly need the copy of it.
thanks,
Jeff

Article is spoken for. My camera skills are definitely lacking, but I'll try to post it.

Here ya go Rustywrench...
Many thanks to Gary.

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Jim

Carefull with step #3!

Thanks for posting, Gary.

From listening to you guys here,
I ain't touching #3....

Thanks for posting! very interesting. now where do I find one of them?

Thanks for posting this late 1959 article from (then) well-known firearms writer Edward J Hoffschmidt.

A few years later (1962) American Rifleman also published "Savage Pocket Pistols" (with an update a few issues later) by Daniel K Stern. In 1967 Stern published his book "10 Shots Quick: The Fascinating Story of the Savage Automatic Pistols", one of the two foundational books in classifying and collecting Savage semi-automatic pistols, the other being James Carr's "Savage Automatic Pistols," published in 1969. Bailey Brower's recent (2008) "Savage Pistols" relies extensively on these earlier books, although also providing updated information and excellent color photos of the pistols, accessories and ephemera.

In this article, note that Hoffschmidt may be misleading when he writes "The gun illustrated is the 1908 type more popularly called the model 1910. It was made in cals .32 ACP and .380 ACP, in a number of variations."

The pistol is a model 1907 (there are only three production models of this pistol, the models 1907, 1915 and 1917), which was made 1908-1920 in .32 and 1913-1920 in .380 in a number of variations. However, the actual pistol illustrated and the exploded diagram in Hoffschmidt's article is one of the two versions made between late 1909 and 1911 and only in .32. 1912 was a major revision year for the model 1907, marking the end of the "early" model 1907s. The .380 began production in 1913 so has all the changes introduced in 1912 (which included changes to the slide, frame, magazine, breechbolt, and various internal changes such as addition of a trigger locking bar and, for a few years, a loaded chamber indicator).

The illustration used in American Rifleman in 1959 is the one still used by Numrich, which can lead to some confusion when folks try to use it to identify parts for model 1907 pistols made in 1912 or later, which is when most model 1907 pistols were made (about 65,000 model .32 1907s were made 1908-1911, and about 158,300 were made 1912-1920; all 10,000 or so .380 1907s were made 1913-1920). To add to the confusion, Numrich also includes parts unique to the model 1915 under the same heading and so the same illustration.

Bill