Does the family member shoot the Savage HP? I'm in the process of forming 30-30 brass, casting and reloading for a family member's HP. It's been a work in progress for a couple months. I do have a box of S&B 5.6 x 52. Shot a couple to try out. I also found a box of same 19 once fired and one live round at a local thrift shop. I'm going to do a chamber cast on it. Don't think I have the correct NOE sizer for the bore.I suppose most wouldn't consider them rare or collectable, but I have a pair of Star BM that have the intact Civil Guard service crest where as I understand the crests were supposed to be drilled off.
Interestingly although the two were produced three years apart as near as I can tell, the import SN#s from C.A.I differ by only 7 digits so I figure they came in the same shipment/crate. I purchased them at separate estate sales about two years apart.
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While it isn't mine, for something a bit more unusual, a family member has this Savage 99 takedown in 22 hi-power that somehow acquired a set of British proof marks upside down relative to the Savage stamping.
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Reads View attachment 1212496 on the barrel as far as I can tell.