1941 No.4 Mk1(T) Savage (S) production part 3/3

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Twenty years ago this showed up at the Old Columbus Ohio OGCA show. The owner knew what it was but it was reasonable given the shape it was in. A prior owner must have been given a new bench grinder for Christmas because he ground off the Clip guides and rear sight mounting lugs, shortened the barrel and ground off the bayonet lugs. Handguards were lost along with most of the forestock and the buttstock butchered along with drastic thinning the cheekpiece. He also thinned the scope mount, brining the mounting screw threads into view.

It took five years to bring it back. One gunsmith sleeved a free bore barrel stub under the front sight. A later smith, fitted a matching rifled sleeve and lined it up with the original rifling, leaving only a ring in the bore. He later grafted the back end of a receiver in to add the clip guides and rear sight lugs. Refinished and set in new Savage wood it looks pretty good. I mention so there is a record of the changes with intent to fraud. We used a later versionof the clip bridge which should really drive later collectors nuts.

On the socket there is a US Ordnance bomb under the serial number, OC1 and on the barrel is the serial number and the bomb.

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