Savage Model 1907 Serial Numbers

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The Savage Model 1907 is a semi-automaticpocket pistol produced by the Savage Arms, from 1907 until 1920. It was chambered in .32 ACP and, from 1913 until 1920, in .380 ACP. Although smaller in size, it is derived from the .45 semi-automatic pistol Savage submitted to the 1906-1911 US Army trials to choose a new semi-automatic sidearm. After several years of testing the Savage pistol was one of two finalists but ultimately lost to the Colt entry, which became famous as the ColtModel 1911. 181 of these .45 ACP pistols were returned to Savage after the testing and sold on the civilian market.^[1]

Name and marketing[edit]

The Model 1907 is often erroneously called a Model 1905 because of the date Nov. 21, 1905 Filesmonster premium account password. date stamped into the top of the slide on all Savage semi-automatic pistols. This is the date Elbert Searle was awarded one of his firearm patents, which were the design basis for all the Savage semi-automatic pistols.

Advertised with the slogan 'Ten shots quick!', the Model 1907 was very popular because, despite its small size, it had a 10-round double-stack magazine. The advertising included a number of early celebrity endorsers, including William 'Buffalo Bill' Cody, Bat Masterson, and the Pinkerton Agency. Savage Arms also presented Teddy Roosevelt with a Model 1907. Much of the advertising in the popular press played on the ability of an otherwise defenseless woman to use the Savage to subdue burglars and 'tramps'.

Design[edit]

A safety lever is located on the left side of the pistol, at the upper rear of the grip. Though it appears to have an external hammer, it is actually a striker-fired gun; the 'hammer' is actually a cocking lever. Model 1907s made from 1913 until 1917 had a collared barrel and a loaded chamber indicator, allowing the shooter to tell by touching the shell ejection port whether a cartridge was chambered. The Model 1907 uses no screws (even the grips snap into place) and is simple to strip. The grips were made from gutta-percha, though some early production examples had metal grips. In 1912 the Model 1907 underwent a major design revision modifying almost every major component.

As with most semi-automatics, the pistol is readied for firing by pulling back and releasing the slide, which inserts a cartridge into the chamber and cocks the pistol. The recoil from firing a cartridge automatically extracts and ejects the empty shell, cocks the firing pin and loads another cartridge into the chamber, ready for firing.

Variants[edit]

Nov 02, 2018  I inherited from my dad two Savage Model 1907 pistols (I think). The side by side pictures are below - the grip with 'Savage Quality' emblem is a.32 caliber and the pistol with the five-point star on the grip is a.38 caliber.38 cal serial number is 1824xx at the top of the receiver facing the direction of the barrel I know for a fact. Before concealed carry was the norm, Savage Arms produced the Savage Model 1907 semi-automatic pocket pistol in.32 ACP is from 1907 until 1920. Although smaller in size, it is derived from the.45 semi-automatic pistol Savage submitted to the 1906-1911 US Army trials to choose a new semi-automatic sidearm. Savage made three production automatic pistols, the model 1907, the model 1915, and the model 1917. The serial numbers run from 1 to about 245000 for the.32 pistols, and from B2000 to about.

Savage made two other very similar semi-automatic pistols, with many parts in common with the Model 1907. The first was the hammerless Model 1915; the .32 Model 1915 was made only in 1915 and 1916 and the .380 model from 1915 until 1917. Like the Model 1907, the Model 1915 uses no screws. The other is the Model 1917, made from 1920 until 1926 in .32 and from 1920 until 1928 in .380. The Model 1917 is mechanically the same as and shares almost all of its parts with the final version of the Model 1907 (including a smaller, thinner cocking lever 'hammer'), but with a significantly larger handle. Because this required larger grips, the Model 1917 uses one screw through each grip to hold them to the pistol frame.

A prototype run of about 40 smaller vest pocket pistols chambered in .25 ACP were made in 1912. While the cosmetic styling was very similar, mechanically they were quite different. These pistols operated by simple blowback with a fixed rather than rotating barrel, and there was no cocking lever 'hammer' as on the larger Model 1907. While the design was successful, for unknown reasons it was never put into production or marketed by Savage.

Military use[edit]

Although the Model 1907 was designed for civilian use, the French government purchased over 40,000 .32 ACP Model 1907s between late 1914 and 1917 for the French military in World War I. These military 'contract' pistols are recognized by the presence of a loaded chamber indicator and a lanyard ring, or mounting holes in the grip for a lanyard ring; lanyard rings were not available on civilian pistols. The Savage Model 1907 pictured to the right is a French contract pistol. A much smaller contract of 1,150 pistols in the same configuration were purchased by Portugal, which are distinguished by grips bearing the lesser arms of Portugal instead of the standard Indian head.

In popular culture[edit]

In the 1978 film noir parody The Cheap Detective, Sid Caesar's character, Ezra Desire, uses a model 1907,^[2] as does Jude Law's character Harlan Maquire in the 2002 crime drama Road to Perdition.^[3]

Gallery[edit]

• Grip of Portuguese military contract Model 1907

• Savage Model 1917

See also[edit]

References[edit]

1. ^'The National Firearms Museum: Savage Model 1907 .45 acp Trials Pistol'. National Firearms Museum. Retrieved May 14, 2012.
2. ^'Cheap Detective, The'. Internet Movie Firearms Database. Retrieved May 14, 2012.
3. ^'Road to Perdition'. Internet Movie Firearms Database. Retrieved May 14, 2012.

• James R. Carr Savage Automatic Pistols. Self-published, 1967.
• Daniel K. Stern. 10 Shots Quick: The Fascinating Story of the Savage Automatic Pistols. San Jose, Calif.: Globe Printing Co., 1967.
• Donald M. Simmons. 'The Savage Pocket Automatic Pistol Model 1907'. In Gun Digest, 35th Ed, pp. 68–85. Northbrook, Ill.: DBI Books, 1981.
• Bailey Brower, Jr. Savage Pistols. Mechanicsburg, Pa.: Stackpole Books, 2008.

Savage Pocket Pistols: M1907, M1915 and M1917

By David Tong

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The Savage auto pistols were a direct result of the Company's efforts to sell the US Army their first semi-automatic service pistol. These three pistols were the subsequent development. This article describes the common features and differences of the three major variations of this century old design.

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Commonalities

All three are single action only designs produced in .32 ACP and .380 ACP with a slide that rides within the grip frame/receiver. These pistols used a unique, rotating barrel with lugs that ride inside the top of the slide and on the receiver. The barrel rotates only when pressures have dropped sufficiently to allow for safe extraction and ejection. This was probably a needless complication for the standard .32 ACP and .380 ACP versions, as most pistols in these calibers operate on straight blowback principles.

A Savage .45 ACP Model 1907 was made only for the the US Army trials and never mass produced. However, some 40,000 .32 ACP Savage pistols were purchased by France and used in the Great War (WW I) and a smaller number were purchased by Portugal.

The curious premise of Mr. Ebert Searle's design is that the twist of the bullet moving down the bore was going to be enough of a time delay so the five degree rotation of the barrel in the opposite direction was going to be sufficient to allow this locking principle to reduce slide velocities and recoil.

The slide and frame rails are unique in that they angle downward when viewed from the front of the frame above the trigger guard. The removable breechblock is a marvel of early 20th Century American manufacturing genius, but it would probably cost as much as four complete polymer pistols to build today.

The pistols were striker fired with double column magazines. The trigger pulls on all three are fairly clean and crisp, but horrifically heavy at well over eight pounds. Coupled with a narrow trigger blade, this means they are difficult to smoothly squeeze for accurate fire.

Compounding this are minuscule iron sights that are hard to see even outdoors in daylight. The M1907 is the only one that had a tiny dovetailed rear sight, while the 1915 and 1917 models have a rear sight that is merely an extension machined onto the top of the slide.

Reports from the Army pistol trials that led to the selection of the Browning-designed Colt 1911 stated that the Savage had notably more recoil. This was also my experience with the M1915 and the .380 round, even compared to simple blowback designs. Other reports suggest that even the .32 ACP versions had stouter recoil than shooters would normally be accustomed to.

All three models have a very low bore axis due to the rotating barrel design, which should help to minimize muzzle flip. The near vertical grip angle increases subjective (felt) recoil.

All three models have a unique, front strap mounted, magazine catch that acts like a see-saw, pivoting about a pin and powered by a small spring. The M1907's mag catch operates by depressing the top of the lever, ostensibly with one's ring finger, while the 1915 and 1917 catch works in the opposite direction, by using one's pinky to press inward.

The 1907 and 1915 models used molded hard rubber grips that snap into the grip frame's side milled cuts without the need for screws. The M-1917's larger grip frame used more conventional grip panels attached by a single screw. My understanding is that the plastic used in the grip panels for the 1907 and 1915 is difficult to remove and that it is also brittle. I suppose this means that if they are in good condition it would be best to leave them in situ while cleaning.

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On the top of the slide of all three there is a two line marking. The top line says, 'SAVAGE ARMS CO. UTICA, N.Y. USA.' The second line reads, 'PATENTED NOV. 21, 1905,' with a smaller caliber indication of either '.32' or '9 MM' at the end. Harry potter deathly hallows part 2 download.

Differences

The Model 1915 is the odd man out. It is the only one of the three that features both a slide hold-open catch, located for a right handed shooter's trigger finger pressing upward to return the slide into battery with a loaded magazine in place. The 1915 is the only one without a spur to allow a shooter to lower the striker to a de-cocked position, as well as the only one to have a grip safety.

The 1907 has a rowel type spur that is connected directly to the striker by a cross pin, while the 1917 has a more conventional looking spur that is a bit easier to manipulate. The coil spring on either of them is stout, undoubtedly adding to the trigger pull weight as much as the 'up and over' geometry of the trigger's interface with the sear, which is mounted on the breechblock assembly.

Since all three of these pistols are collectors' items and a century old, I declined to shoot any, except for the one my family owns. The M1915 was loaded with reloads using 3.6 grains of W231 ball powder and a 95 grain Sierra RN-FMJ bullet, for a nominal velocity of 945 fps. This closely duplicates factory ballistics. The rounds were taper crimped and overall length was confirmed by dial caliper.

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I only fired two nine round magazines and the sharp recoil was all out of proportion to the cartridge's power. This, the very heavy single-action trigger pull and tiny sights made it problematic to shoot the pistol accurately even at thirty-foot range from a rest. Also, the last round in the magazine mis-fed both times, and I am not sure why. (Happenstance?) I am glad to have had the opportunity to handle and photograph these pieces of American manufacturing history and provide a brief overview of how they work.