I hear ya. I was hoping for some things like, they changed this part or painted this piece at these years. When I look online, I see two or 3 different types of finger guards but I can't tell when savage started making each one. So I was hoping some history buffs might know some small details like that.

As for the family, I can ask around again. I doubt they got the year he died wrong, but its possible my GGF didn't buy the gun. Although they were pretty confident my GF didn't guy any guns himself; just used his fathers.

I can't see to figure out how to attach a photo so I tried copy paste below. Hopefully they come out as clear as they are on phone.