New Hoosier-land Member

I just registered for the forum today. I've been fascinated with older Savage firearms for quite some time and up until a couple of weeks ago, the only thing Savage in my gun safe was a nice condition Model 1907 pistol. At a local gun shop I came across what was tagged a Model 1899 Savage lever-gun and that is something I've had on my list to own for quite some time. The price was reasonable and I bought it. I found a website called Savage1899.com and checked the serial number; according to this website, I actually have a Model 1895! I put 3 rounds of hard to find .303 Savage cartridges thru it and it's in great shape mechanically. For a 120+ year old gun the finish is appropriately worn, but not too bad. I'm seriously considering having it restored.

Anyway, just wanted to say hello and glad to be here. If you do Facebook, check out my page THE FIRING PEN. As a retirement job, I write gun magazine articles for Athlon-Outdoors, you can see what I do in my Facebook page.

Welcome aboard

Thanks!