Savage No 4 Mk1 T

[Roger Payne]

I have, in fact two or three (two groovers). They were all Mk1* T's & were from the batch of about 140 that Dave & I bought back in 1997. I have never thought that they were anything more than a very few that simply 'slipped through the net'. They were also rifles that had been scoped up - in other words they had had the conversion job fully completed by H&H, & bore lowish scope serials consistent with them being fitted at the time of conversion rather than after the event. The barrels on these rifles I inspected closely, & they all appeared to be the factory original barrels. I am not suggesting these are common, just a few that got through before the regs were more judiciously enforced!

I would concur absolutely that some Savage rifles were rebarrelled with 1945 dated UK production barrels, & all of the few that I can remember passing through my hands had had replacement UK forends fitted as well, as Brian says. I honestly do not know who carried out this rectification work, but it was clearly professionally done & so is likely to be H&H or the UK military.

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