Savage Arms Model 72 Serial Number Lookup

Manufacture date of a Savage Arms model 64 serial number 0612183. The serial numbers on serviceable rimfires are generally seven digits long and they can start with a zero or a one. To confirm whether or not your gun is a current model, you can contact customer service at (413) 568-7001. Jan 27, 2018 - For Savage Arms, Inc. Pre-December 1968, serial number records can be researched from the original company ledgers for rifles, pistols,.

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Stevens Favorite Rifles and closely associated versions This type of rifle action is known as a pivoting block type, or swinging block, since the breech block is pivoted on a pivot screw in the mid section of the receiver. Upon activating the lever, the breech block pivots, or swings down to expose the chamber. These firearms evolved basically with many internal running changes happening over the time span that the guns were in production. This article is not meant to be the BIBLE, in that many times if something is printed, there may later be some gun show up to prove us wrong. So, you will see words like appears, may, could, possibly, assumed, etc.

Used frequently in this article. There appear to be basically 4 main different versions of the Favorite, the 1889, 1894, 1915, & the 418 with other sub variations made at the productions start & then again at the end. These older Favorite series had a total of 4 different versions of extractors. Most guns were made in either 22RF, while 25RF or 32RF calibers were offered.

There is no real way to tell anything by a number or combination of numbers & a letter that appears to possibly be a serial number. It is suspected that the factory used a series of letters & numbers to some preset upper number like say 1,000 or 10,000 or even 100,000 & assigned a letter to that block of numbers, like A, F, or W.

When that upper number was reached for that letter, they picked another letter & started over. Now this is not to say that these letters were in alphabetical order either.

Some manufacturers would assign higher numbers at the start of a model to fool the competition into thinking they were making a lot of guns. What I am saying is that no one really knows how many of these guns were made or even a numbering sequence. We won’t cover barrel configuration in detail here at this time, as we are more interested here in identifying the actions & the internal parts used in them. However they could have been had in round, round/part octagon, or octagon in different lengths.

The early guns that had a part octagon barrel only had it on the top of the barrel, stopping at the front of the forearm, while the barrel under the forearm wood was round. The later guns bore different model designation, as say (17, 20, 27). The barrel & or sights were what determined the different models.

This model designation was never stamped on the gun however & was only mentioned in the sales catalog. Standard sights on the 1889 & 1894 were fixed with the rear being just a triangular metal section & not adjustable for elevation.