Savage Stance

If you see them drastically reduce soon, you'll know we don't.

Spats McGee said:

I'm not exactly a firearms historian, but I can't recall Savage making pistols in my lifetime. First Mossberg returns to pistol manufacturing, now Savage . . .

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I didn't know Mossberg ever made pistols either

Spats McGee said:

I'm not exactly a firearms historian, but I can't recall Savage making pistols in my lifetime..

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Savages M1907 got beat out by Colt for a Gov contract.(M1911) Course I wasn't alive then either.

Single stack made by a company that doesn't make handguns? I'll stick with my p365.

Sign me up!
I’m a Savage fan, a Hellcat detractor, and Sig Ho-Hum-er. I’m looking for a compact nine that isn’t my, rather boring, 938. I hope this does well.

Stoger makes a very similar pistol to the Mossberg, as well. Handsome but not well known.


The more the merrier, I always say!

I'm thinking they will be selling for less than MSRP. I noticed magazine capacity is 7 or 8 rounds. I don't think it will fare well in today's market. Of course I could be wrong.

7-8 rounds in today's market, not going to get any play. What were they thinking?

Too many great options of similar size with greater capacity (Hellcat, Glock, P365, Ruger Max, S&W Shield Plus, etc). And before one says I don't need 10+1, 12+1 or 15+1; one doesn't have to fill the magazine.

I'll stick with my G48 with 15+1.

The more the merrier, but I hate to see gun companies chase good money after bad investments.

It's good to see Savage expanding it's product line. I have enough 9mm's. So i won't be buying one.

Got nothing nice to say…gotta go…

I hope they sell a billion.....and use the profits to bring back the classic Savage "rayguns"........which I might actually buy.

Oh, ya, and the only way Im buying a new Mossberg handgun is if its a 2022 Brownie.

It would not have made any sense for Savage to try to compete in larger service-class pistol categories, what with the constant threat of magazine capacity bans on the horizon. I think the subcompact / microcompact carry gun niche makes sense for Savage, assuming that a decision to get back into the handgun market makes sense at all.

I wish them well.

Looks like a better turned out G2C slim. I guess they are trying to get out in the market ahead of capacity restrictions. Better to have more options than less I guess. I echo the sentiment that there is proven sub compacts that are cheaper. I guess we wait and see what hits.

Blkhrt13 said:

I echo the sentiment that there is proven sub compacts that are cheaper.

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This is how MSRP/MAP stacks up:
$392 - Taurus GX4
$479 - Savage Stance
$549 - Glock 43X
$549 - SIG P365
$556 - Mossberg MC2sc
$559 - Ruger Max-9
$569 - Springfield Hellcat
$595 - S&W Shield+
$599 - Kimber Mako

I love Savage. However, I don't get this lineup. 7 and 8 round magazines? No! That market has come and gone. Good luck but it will be a bust!

sixgunfun said:

I love Savage. However, I don't get this lineup. 7 and 8 round magazines? No! That market has come and gone. Good luck but it will be a bust!

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Yeah, well nobody thought mullets would make a comeback either.
Based on MSRP, I'd expect to see them in cases in the $375- $400 range so I doubt it's intended to compete with the P365's and Hellcats of the world. Single stacks are still a decent piece of the pie.

I haven’t seen it advertised or reviewed yet so this is all news to me. It is a crowded market, one with several established makers that have had quite a head start.

If it holds onto the lower cost rungs to compete with SCCY, l can see them selling a fair amount of units. But time will tell if it was a good financial move, or a bad one, for Savage management to have developed the gun and marketed it.

If anyone gets one let us know how it shoots.

Stay safe.

Don't have and don't want a plastic 9, but if I did want one, I would be willing to look long and hard at one made by Savage. Hard to beat an American made success story.

Does anyone see the resemblance to the Honor Defense Honor Guard??

Corporate acquisition maybe??

That grip vaguely reminds me of the FN 503 which was a skinny grip and didn't hold much either. Don't know why they wouldn't fatten it up and make a 1.5 stack and make it a 10 rounder starting like most of the other micros 9s

I consider a subcompact, flat, single-stack with a polymer frame to be a "utility" gun, one for general knock-around carry or stash. Since I've had an example of the original, the Kel-Tec PF9, since 2010 and have never has a problem with it, I'll stick with that.

I agree that this option is a bit tardy, but not irrelevant. I also thought of the Mossberg thing when I read the thread opener line.