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Hi all. This is my first post in this section!
I received an old rifle a few days ago. Semi auto, tube fed, very light little .22 rifle. It looked to be in pretty good shape; no rust or scratches, good stock that looks a little weathered but has no major dings.
When I cycled the action with shells, the gun refused to extract. In fact it seemed to feed the shells back into the action. I looked closer and realized that the extractors had been installed wrong, left in the right and right in the left. I think someone tore the rifle down for a good cleaning and then installed them backwards. Easy fix and now it runs like a top. Great little gun!
I tasked my daughter with refinishing the stock. She stripped and sanded the little thing and stained it a nice red mahogany and rubbed in several coats of a mix of beeswax, boiled linseed oil, and turpentine.
Beautiful little rifle! Great little shooter!
My problem is that I can not find a scrap of information about this gun on the internet! I found a closed gun-broker auction, but that is all. I have hunted everywhere and every way I can think and have come up completely empty. Does anyone here know anything about the history of this little .22?
The barrel markings say that it is a Savage Arms, Springfield model 388.
I figured that Savage guns, even discontinued models, would be fairly easy to trace. I was wrong.
Help me out here!
I received an old rifle a few days ago. Semi auto, tube fed, very light little .22 rifle. It looked to be in pretty good shape; no rust or scratches, good stock that looks a little weathered but has no major dings.
When I cycled the action with shells, the gun refused to extract. In fact it seemed to feed the shells back into the action. I looked closer and realized that the extractors had been installed wrong, left in the right and right in the left. I think someone tore the rifle down for a good cleaning and then installed them backwards. Easy fix and now it runs like a top. Great little gun!
I tasked my daughter with refinishing the stock. She stripped and sanded the little thing and stained it a nice red mahogany and rubbed in several coats of a mix of beeswax, boiled linseed oil, and turpentine.
Beautiful little rifle! Great little shooter!
My problem is that I can not find a scrap of information about this gun on the internet! I found a closed gun-broker auction, but that is all. I have hunted everywhere and every way I can think and have come up completely empty. Does anyone here know anything about the history of this little .22?
The barrel markings say that it is a Savage Arms, Springfield model 388.
I figured that Savage guns, even discontinued models, would be fairly easy to trace. I was wrong.
Help me out here!
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