The fate of Savage arms!

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BigBore44 said:
Well it depends on who it gets sold to. Savage has a loyal following and likely always will. But only rifle you’ll ever own? Don’t you own a Marlin 1895?
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Yeah but dont tell anyone!! I was cleaning it and oiling until next deer season and the front sight fell off and was a hair crooked in the first place and 2 different pieces of wood but I've always wanted a lever action so you gotta compromise. If savage made a lever gun I would be all over it!

When I said rifle I meant like bolt action/semi auto other than an AR which I don't care for and savage wants way too much $ for their anyways. lol.

I've messed with Remington's and just don't care for them and every 700 I've shot even with hand loads doesn't have the accuracy of savage I've had plus the crap Remington has been pulling lately I shy away.

When it comes to pump shotguns I like Mossberg (never had an issue) Bolt guns/hunting rifles=savage, lever guns=Henry from now on, Handguns=smith and Wesson or Sig.
 
Scooter22 said:
Corporate America is jumping ship on the gun industry. Look at the banks, advertisers and such. Plus as many gun owners there are I see less and less potential future customers in the younger urban generation. They haven't been brought up shooting and have been brainwashed by the anti gun education system.
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I would have to agree with this. I have young men in my family who grew up in a firearms/hunting household and want nothing to do with them. All you see now days on the news is anti gun stuff and the kids follow right along with it cause its PC. Is it jacked up they cant even go to school because its being shotup? YEP! but instead of blaming the gun blame the way the kid got ahold of that gun.

All these gun makers thought Hillary was going to get in so they ramped up production hoping to make a lot of $ and when it backfired on them now its oh, we lost a lot of money so time to make water bottles!
 
You know I was playing with the idea of ditching my axis and buying a model 11 predator this just might sweeten the deal for me. I'm worried Freedom group will get their hands on them and run them into the ground like everything else they touched.
 
I love my Savage (and Marlin) rifles, hope they are sold to a worthy outfit (and that Remington pulls through better).

The Snowflake Generation does not participate in outdoors activities, hunting and fishing, exploring, hiking and even sports like swim/bike/run. As the Boomers begin to fade there is going to be an adjustment in both retail brick and mortar platforms and outdoors sports manufacturers/businesses as a result of a dwindling base of consumers.

And then there is the foreign competition in arms, ammo, and what not hurting domestic manufacturers.

And the political. While we Boomers still have clout we need to hurt the anti-gun bandwagon in their pocket books. Boomers still have more money than Gen X/Y/Snowflake and plenty of economic muscle.
 
Tarp for firearm industry?;)

Seriously though I'm sure savage and remington will end up operational after being bought out.

But one has to wonder after the remington issues of large corps buy out certain companies just to tank them and obtain some assets.
 
VoodooMountain said:
Tarp for firearm industry?;)

Seriously though I'm sure savage and remington will end up operational after being bought out.

But one has to wonder after the remington issues of large corps buy out certain companies just to tank them and obtain some assets.
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I don't doubt they will still be around, I'm more concerned of an outfit like freedom group getting ahold of them and doing what they did to Marlin to savage.
 
NIGHTLORD40K said:
Uhhhhh....bro, they only produced the greatest lever gun of all time for nearly a century- the Model 99.
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Yes they are out of production, but hardly difficult to find and they last forever.:)
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Hell to the no!! I never heard of that one! I'm restricted to strait wall cartridges so if it's bottle neck I wouldnt be able to use it. I have to say that things ugly! Lol. I love me a tube fed lever gun but that things just weird!
 
Does savage even make a rifle for straight-walled cartridges?
 
Wisco said:
Does savage even make a rifle for straight-walled cartridges?
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Not that I know of unless you buy a barrel for an axis. Ruger hit a home run with the 450bm but those American rifles feel cheaper than an axis.
 
ohihunter2014 said:
Hell to the no!! I never heard of that one! I'm restricted to strait wall cartridges so if it's bottle neck I wouldnt be able to use it. I have to say that things ugly! Lol. I love me a tube fed lever gun but that things just weird!
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Ahhhhh...your state only allows straight walled hunting cartridges, I take it. No, they were all bottle necked. The 99 uses either a rotary or detachable box mag (depending on the sub variant) the idea being that it was a lever gun that could accept pointed bullets- though they also made many in .30-30.

I have a .308 and a .243, and I gotta tell you, the action puts every other lever gun to shame, with the possible exception of a '95 Winchester.

As for it being ugly, well..........:confused:
 
Vista is also losing business from distributors of their non-gun related product. For instance, REI threw them overboard and won't carry Camelbak and other brands as well. That will change when Vista no longer sells guns.

I resigned my very low numbered membership with REI. I likely wouldn't have, but they represented the change as a response to its members. Never asked me. They wear the righteous cloak of being a low-profit, member-driven outdoor store. Bull! They overprice, and then give you back 10% at the end of the year. Sales don't earn a dividend. And all but their in-house product can be found elsewhere.
 
ohihunter2014 said:
Hell to the no!! I never heard of that one! I'm restricted to strait wall cartridges so if it's bottle neck I wouldnt be able to use it. I have to say that things ugly! Lol. I love me a tube fed lever gun but that things just weird!
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There's no accounting for taste.

Dude, there's a whole shooting world out there beyond the Savage Axis. You need to get out there and find it.
 
The Savage 99 is awesome in all ways and I am a long time Marlin Man. If they reintroduced that in 338 Win. Mag with maybe a 20 inch barrel and a matching one in 45-70 and an 18.5 inch barrel, both in stainless and synthetic I would pop put my Amex card right now! I am game Savage, please! 3C
 
Ive been bugging them for years to get back in the handgun game with updated versions of their classic pistols.....who knows, maybe the new owners will take the plunge! :):):thumbup:
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I'm thinking a poly framed .380 with a better safety arrangement, sell a ton of em at $400 and a scaled up steel or aluminum framed 9mm and .45 ( this is the vintage .45) selling for $6-700? Sign me up Savage!
 
That is beautiful, @NIGHTLORD40K ! They just don't make them like that any more.:(

...and then the devil told me.
"Ha. We'll buy them out with cash. No body can resist money. No one will be a gun afficionado if we dismantle the industry. New shooters won't be, if they can't find guns. They won't cut thier teeth on grandfathers old rifle, if there are no parts to fix it.
Sheep don't have such a terrible existance... til chop day! MUHAHAHahahahaaa!"

I heard him say it.
 
3Crows said:
The Savage 99 is awesome in all ways and I am a long time Marlin Man. If they reintroduced that in 338 Win. Mag with maybe a 20 inch barrel and a matching one in 45-70 and an 18.5 inch barrel, both in stainless and synthetic I would pop put my Amex card right now! I am game Savage, please! 3C
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Heck ya! One of the limiting factors of the old 99 was its mid-length action. Since Savage would be starting with all new tooling, they could make it scalable to accept long or short cartridges.

Imagine- a .223 lever gun!!! :what::thumbup:
 
My money says Savage will be the next one Freedom Arms puts in their pocket. I just hope they don't stuff it in the same building with Remington and Marlin.
 
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