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Savage Model 64 series is a semi-automatic .22 LR rifle made by Savage Arms in Canada. It operates on a simple blowback action. It is marketed to beginning shooters, small-game hunters, and budget-minded target shooters.
The Savage 99 in Scientific American Volume 85 Number 10 (September 1901) Savage Arms Company - Utica, New York - 1904 Savage Arms Company - Rifles - Utica, New York - 1904. Savage Arms was founded in 1894 by Arthur Savage in Utica, New York. Within 20 years they were producing rifles, handguns, and ammunition. [1]
The company introduced the .22 Long Rifle round and made a number of rifle, shotgun, and target pistol designs. By 1902, they were advertising themselves as "the largest producers of sporting arms in the world". [1] They were purchased by New England Westinghouse on May 28, 1915, and again by Savage Arms on April 1, 1920. [2]
The .22 Savage Hi-Power cartridge, also known as 5.6×52mmR, was created by Charles Newton and introduced by Savage Arms in 1912. It was designed to be used in the Savage Model 99 hammerless lever action rifle. It is based upon the .25-35 Winchester cartridge necked down to accept a .227 in/.228 in diameter bullet.
The Savage Model 24 was actually introduced by Stevens Arms as the Model 22-410 in 1938. [notes 1] During World War II the United States Army Air Corps purchased some 15,000 Model 22-410s for use as survival guns. [1] In 1950, Stevens stopped making the 22-410, and Savage introduced the same gun as the Model 24.
The rifle to be designated the Model 52 was designed from the ground up as an "accuracy rifle" — the world's first production .22 to be so conceived. It was initially hoped that the Army could be persuaded to buy a bolt-action smallbore training rifle in addition to-or in place of-its existing contracts for Model 1885s.
400-pound tiger taken by Reverend H. R. Caldwell using a Savage 99 chambered for .22 Savage Hi-Power The Model 99 and Model 1899 were preceded by the Model 1895, which was the first hammerless lever-action rifle. [ 13 ]
Anschütz entered the target rifle market in the 1950s with the Model 54 action, releasing the SuperMatch by 1962. [2] The combination of heavy receiver, short lock time and an excellent trigger almost immediately eliminated the Winchester Model 52 (known as the "King of the .22s" for the first half of the 20th century) [3] from elite shooting and Olympic competition and positioned Anschütz ...