If there was some feature in the design, no matter how large or small, real or imagined, it got pushed and pushed hard. It shows a hand holding a Savage pistol superimposed over a hand with outstretched finger.įrom what I’ve read in old advertising, Arthur Savage was never shy about any of his guns. I see the same picture over and over in advertising. That grip change must have been done begrudgingly, because one of the big advertising claims of the 19 was how well the grip was designed and how well the gun pointed. The Model 1915 had no external “hammer”, and the Model 1917 had a reshaped grip backstrap. I saw a lot of “French” Savages with documentation for sale when I was looking for mine. 380.Ī large order of guns were sold to France early in WWI, when they were screaming for pistols of any kind. 380 ASP- Automatic Savage Pistol- even though they were just the standard. 32 ACP, but they did make quite a few in. It seems like most Savage 1907s were made in. A lot of the mechanics of that gun are similar to the. The Searle/Savage was the closest competitor to the Colt/Browning, and the only other gun really in the running. 45 auto in the early Army pistol trials that resulted in the adoption of the Colt/Browning 1911. Arthur Savage bought and produced it by his company. Not even holding the grip panels on.Īn Army Major named Elbert H. The slide runs on rails cut inside the frame. It had an odd locking system based on a rotating barrel. The Savage had a double stack magazine that held 10 rounds in. 32/.380 that was popular then, but is probably just a little wider (I don’t have a Colt 1903 here to check). It was a “pocket pistol” in its day, and is a little smaller than the Colt 1903.
The Savage Model 1907 came out somewhere in the 1905 to 1907 area, depending on what source you read. It’s unique combination of design features has always kept me at least a little bit curious about them for the mechanical aspect.Īnd I think they look kinda cool, with an Art Deco or Art Nouveau styling. Whenever who did what, the Savage 1907 did them all at once. I’m not so sure that it was the first in any of these things, but when compared to the guns most people would think of when asked the above questions, it beat most of them…often by decades. The Sig P210 was like that too (1947-48).īelieve it or not, you might be able to answer all of these questions by saying the Savage 1907. The CZ75 is known for this and many are aware of that (1975). How about a pistol whose slide rails were reversed, so the slide ran inside the frame? There were others from long ago, but most were so obscure that few can name them. The KelTec P32 and others that followed used a locking breech to get the gun smaller, so it gets the attention. 380 that fired from a locked breech instead of being blowback? My guess is most people would think of the Browning HiPower (1935) was first or close to it. What production gun had the first double stack magazine? 32s, and really don’t like those that are rather large in size. The Savage Model 1907 “pocket pistol” is one of these. So sometimes, I get interested in a gun that I would otherwise ignore and do it just because of how they work. If it has a clear back case so I can see this stuff going on, all the better. I know a Wal-Mart digital watch will tell me the time, but I like an automatic (auto-wind or self-winding) watch because there is stuff going on in there. One is that I like mechanical objects and knowing how they work. There are a few reasons I like messing around with guns.
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