A Savage 4T Serial# 0C4675 only £11000 GBP

[Roy W]

Maybe they think TR stands for Trials Rifle?

The RFD has some strange ideas about rarity. He has a video on Youtube showing off his Springfield 1903 USMC Sniper rifle, which he claims is rare and original. It has a Hi-Lux $500 repro scope on and the pads are held on with Torqs bolts. I'm therefore not surprised he thinks this is £11k rare.

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[Roger Payne]

Thanks chaps. Scout Sniper, you have keener eyes than I! True, it does not look like there is a scope serial number on the butt, though did Ian mention that it was a replacement? Even so, if it was replaced in military service & the rifle was scoped up, the number would have been transferred across to the new butt................just thinking out loud!

I think the overstamped/poorly stamped marking on the butt socket was probably 'FTR'. It's quite common on T's to see it stamped there, as opposed to engraved on the receiver side wall as on regular No4's.......

[IanS]

Did I read somewhere that the Savage "trials" rifles didn't have the "US Property" stamp?

[Bindi2]

Did I read somewhere that the Savage "trials" rifles didn't have the "US Property" stamp?

They are or were stamped from OC1 onwards. I have OC109 with its stamp

[Roger Payne]

I'm not sure I know what a 'Savage Trials rifle' is.......but AFAIK they all bore the 'US Property' mark, although some have subsequently had it removed. This very subject crops up periodically in threads; one quite recently.

[IanS]

Thanks Bindi2.
Roger, I put trials in quotes deliberately, as it was referred to as used in trials in the adverisement.

The grammer and spelling in the advertisement hasn't improved.

[Surpmil]

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