Expanding the gun business 09/10/2023 – It is good to see Savage Arms going strong with a full product lineup; rifles, shotguns and handguns, and with a good range of models within each category. Why? Because Savage, as a large scale and long term firearm manufacturer, contributes to the overall…...
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Savage's A22 BNS-SR
1/30/2022 – OK, so I held Maine’s early winter feeble snow fall up to public ridicule and, today, revenge was swift. I had to drag my butt out there to clear 15″ of heavy snow; shovel, snow blow and… shovel some more. It’s amazing how many steps are in a…...
Savage's 110 Ultralite Part I
08/17/2021 Savage has had an excellent lightweight in the form of the Model 110 Lightweight Storm, with a scant scale checked weight of 5 3/4 lbs. The Savage 110 Ultralite is a further, positive step in lightweight firearm evolution. The 110 Ultralite adds the shooter accommodating Savage Accustock, a Proof…...
Savage's Impulse in 300 Winchester Magnum Part 1
It looks as though Savage Arms, out from under the Vista Outdoor corporate umbrella, has a bright future with innovation and market expansion as the new company’s objectives. Savage CEO Al Kasper, who has been with Savage since 1996, would seem to have the best perspective on the company’s potential…....
Savage 110 Hog Hunter Part 2
I’m thinking there must have been a time when weekends meant road trips and sight seeing or maybe even a little relaxing, but the memories are too distant to form clearly in my recollections. Those days must have existed in a very narrow window of family life between too young…...
Savage 110 Hog Hunter Part 1
Chipmunks – Micro or Macro aggressors? My wife loves to watch the chipmunk families that live under the shop and along the property boundary stone fences. They scamper with their tails up like antennas, they pause and sit on their haunches to test the wind like a community of meerkats,…...
The Savage 110 Hunter in 25-06 Remington Part II
My wife tells me she has always seen in me a great deal of potential. Subsequently, she works diligently to utilize as much of it as possible. Where a casual observer might see an out of shape old guy, stretched out on the couch and watching “Street Outlaws – No…...
The Savage 110 Hunter in 25-06 Rem Part I
Parroting business reporting of the day, in 2013, $4.5 billion ATK acquired the $200 million Caliber Company, Caliber Company was parent to 100+ year old Savage Sports Corporation. In 2015, ATK spun off its outdoor products businesses into Vista Outdoor, Inc. which is currently comprised of fifty brands. Vista Outdoors…...