Savage No.4 (t)

[GeeRam]

My issue is it the price I have seen a number of Ts without chests, tins at but there are a number of small negatives. The biggest to me is I can only justify this purchase of it is a rifle I could, if push came to shove sell for £4-4.5K, my concern is small negatives, the unmatched scope, and maybe mount as well out of service fettling by fultons make that tricky.

I agree, even if it is as likely was a pukka Savage T, its no longer in the top price bracket for a rare Savage T.........its in great shooter price bracket as that is what it now is, but not top collector price.
I would have thought £3.5k price range to 3.75k tops would be the likely price range......??

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[Micheal Doyne]

I agree, even if it is as likely was a pukka Savage T, its no longer in the top price bracket for a rare Savage T.........its in great shooter price bracket as that is what it now is, but not top collector price.
I would have thought £3.5k price range to 3.75k tops would be the likely price range......??

Interesting would you put a top shooter plus scope at £3.5, I was rather assuming top shooter was about £1000 so with scope, and pads I was assuming £2,500.

[GeeRam]

Interesting would you put a top shooter plus scope at £3.5, I was rather assuming top shooter was about £1000 so with scope, and pads I was assuming £2,500.

Repro/replica 4T are now in the £2-2.5k range if sold by a dealer, and a un-messed with miss-matched real 4T without any accessories is in the £3.5-4k range now if its an OK shooter, so this is in realty somewhere between the two. For someone that wants good shooter but not a replica, this is ideal, especially if they want something to compete with. Its worth more than £2.5k IMHO, and is certainly worth £3k......but how much more than £3k depends as ever on how much someone wants exactly what this is.

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It's a real No4MkI(T) which has been centre bedded - that's likely the source of the Fulton's markings.

In it's previous life, it was a target rifle, probably Service Rifle "A"

On early guns pads were NOT staked.

I think this is most likely what happened.
Post war it lost its scope and bracket, and ended up at Fulton's and was modded for Service Rifle comps (surely it would be Service Rifle B though if centre bedded and regulated by Fultons as SR A would be stock military spec...?) It probably was fitted with a PH aperture sight as well?
Someone has then later acquired a bracket and scope and removed the PH sights and refitted the scope.