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great video on Savage Navy revolver

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He goes a good job on his videos. His gun is in pretty good shape. He calls it a transition between single and double action, when, in fact, it's a lever action. The hammer can be cocked without using the lever but the cylinder is not advanced.
He also mentions that in the slow motion video you can see that the cylinder is not totally gas sealed against the barrel, but there is an adjustment that can be made to tighten that seal.

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I like his videos they are well edited and good video quality but its a bit hard to make out what he says at times.

Duelist and hickock45 i enjoy more.

I dont care for the looks of that gun either. It just looks a little to weird for me.
 
It's been called The Ugly Duckling. It's .36 caliber but it could have been .44 - it's built like a tank. It's a natural pointer, and once you get the two finger cocking and firing method down, it's pretty fast, though not a quick draw gun.
 
What year did the model with a trigger guard come out? What year did the first non trigger guard guns come out?

I like their films a lot, I just wonder where the Hungarians are getting so many nice condition US made percussion guns.....that Colt revolving carbine had me drooling and this one is nice as well.

-kBob
 
This guy has some very good vids with original guns. Nice to see the old ones out and being fired.
 
Howdy

What a coincidence. I was handling one just today.

http://www.amoskeagauction.com/99/179.html

It was in perfect operating condition. Really nifty old gun. It went for $1600. Really quite reasonable for such an interesting piece. I thought about bidding on it, but I was there after a Triple Lock so I wound up passing on the Savage.

By the way, I agree, that guy speaks much better English than I speak Hungarian.
 
I sar this video the other night. I love capandball YouTube channel, he is a good one. I like how the Savage cocks, very cool! I would love to see a repop of this ol' baby.
 
Driftwood Johnson, Did you go to the gun show in Manchester?
 
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Driftwood Johnson, Did you go to the gun show in Manchester?
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No. I spent all day at the auction across town at Amoskeag. I did not leave until 4:00PM. The weather was bad, I wanted to get on the road, and frankly, I had spent enough money at the auction that I didn't want to go to a gun show in case I was tempted buy something else.
 
There's an antique firearms dealer that goes to that Manchester show every year - his name is Norm - and he usually has a Savage & North .36 for sale, plus some other great cap and ball antiques. I've been to his house - he has an amazing collection.
 
Just out of curiosity, what would happen if you pulled both triggers at once? I would not be surprised if this yielded a double-action firing stroke.
 
It probably wouldn't fire as the nipples would be out of alignment with the hammer. Plus the cylinder gap would be dangerously large.
 
The lower ring is a lever, not a trigger. Instead of cocking the hammer with your thumb, you pull that ring back with your middle finger (think of a lever action rifle). Pulling it back causes the cylinder to be pulled back from the forcing cone and rotated, and also cocks the hammer. Release the ring and the cylinder moves forward against the forcing cone, forming a gas seal. You can cock the hammer with your thumb but it does not advance the cylinder.
That's why I called it a lever action gun.
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Just out of curiosity, what would happen if you pulled both triggers at once? I would not be surprised if this yielded a double-action firing stroke.
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That's a lot easier said than done. The position of the two 'triggers' made it awkward to pull both at once. I had a good time examining the one I saw on Saturday, and it really is a very awkward piece to manipulate. Completely non-intuitive to pull the lower 'trigger' with the index finger before pulling the real trigger with the trigger finger. In addition, the gun was difficult to sight. The great big hammer on the side completely blocks the rear sight until the hammer is cocked. Then you are peering under the hammer body to try and see the small rear sight. The Savage is a really cool piece, but nowhere near as simple and intuitive to shoot as a Colt or Remington.
 
It's a natural pointer. Recoil is light due to its weight. Once you get used to the action, cocking the lower ring with your middle finger and firing a round is actually faster than cocking and firing a Colt, Remington, etc.
Here's the sight picture (minus the front sight)
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Cocking and fireing that Savage never could be faster then a Remington or Colt. I Like the looks of the Savage BUT in a gunfight with it you are toast cause you have no option to fan it if you have to.
 
If anyone is interested, I have one of these that's a shooter I'm looking to sell. Send me a PM
 
Kaeto maybe you need more practice. I don't like to fan but that does not mean that I can not hit a human size target at fifty feet when fanning. I usually prefer head size targets for my practicebut there are times when you just need to send someone scurrying.
 
I don't speak Hungarian, either, but I did date a girl who was half Hungarian.
Does that count?

Uberti and/or Pietta needs to make a reproduction of this revolver. I like it.
 
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