What has Savage been up to?

nononsense

December 30, 2020 17:16

Evidently reinventing the wheel. I did find another video from Savage:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1SVasdjW2s

Savage Arms introduces the Straight Pull bolt action with safety breech barrels:

Straight Pull actions have been around for over a century and the breech ring barrel system for over 40 years. Goes to show you that there is really nothing new under the Sun but it is new to Savage...

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Evidently, those of us who garnered this information and video from the Savage website have literally jumped the gun! Savage Arms has pulled all of the related material, links and videos from the internet. The illustration above is all that remains that I could find except for the posts discussing it on many firearms forums. Oh well!

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New video posted above.

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  rgnot3

  January 04, 2021 18:46

  Sometimes things that were thought old become new and are relevant again. I cannot count how many times old designs were slightly enhanced and came back better than the originals. Would you say that the old designed Colt 1911 is new to Remington or the host of other 1911 manufacturers out there? Its only a 110 years old!!! 😁

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  nononsense

  January 04, 2021 19:49

  Here is a fairly complete list of straight pull rifles:

  List of straight pull rifles - Wikipedia
  Straight-pull rifles differ from a conventional bolt action mechanisms in that the manipulation required from the user in order to chamber and extract a cartridge predominantly consists of a linear motion only, as opposed to a traditional turn-bolt action where the user has to manually rotate the bolt for chambering and primary extraction.

  I would say that your comments and observations are nothing short of obvious.

  Savage is simply recycling a couple of older ideas into one type of rifle trying to appear to be on the 'leading edge'.

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  rgnot3

  January 04, 2021 20:24

  I guess you misinterpreted me. Its sarcasm! First time I should have been more sarcastic!

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  Mobuck

  January 05, 2021 03:12

  I understand the mechanics but the WHY??? escapes me.

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  nononsense

  January 05, 2021 03:54

  Here is the original video I posted. We'll see how long it lasts this time:

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqryDLwJxgM

  
  

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