Savage 101

[VegasAR15]

Here is an interesting little handgun that everyone may not have seen before, Savage 101. I picked three of them up recently. They are little single shot pistol designed to look like a revolver. The barrel and "cylinder" are all one piece, you just push on the side of it and it flips out to load in one round of .22. I thought they were neat little guns for my little girls.

 

[smalls]

Interesting. But I fail to see the point if it looking like a revolver, yet only holding one round.

 

[VegasAR15]

They were just made for kids. I think a lot of Boy Scout troops used them. I think they were just going for something that kids would think looked cool, but was a good first handgun for smaller kids. It about the size of a Ruger Bearcat.

 

[Jim K]

They were produced at the time of the first "cowboy" craze, when gun companies were selling anything that even remotely looked like a Colt SAA, a gun then out of production. High Standard made its DA/SA Sentinel into a fake SA; H&R and IJ did the same. And one Bill Ruger decided to put out a "cowboy gun" of his own, called the Single Six.

They have one serious problem. If you decide to disassemble the Savage 101, be very careful that the little spring loaded locking plunger does not drop into one of the fake chambers in the cylinder. If it does, getting the gun either apart or back together will be VERY difficult!

Jim