I have an old 1917 Savge pump 22. I have it fully put back together and its really nice, and accurate. It is an old octagon barrel, breakdown with a thumbscrew. I have had it into several gunsmiths to fix a minor feed problem with not much success. The current smith that has it is under the same impression I am that one of the feed parts is worn, and being the part is stamped steel and we don't know what the original looks like, other than my original part he and I are both hestitant to start screwing around with the original parts.

My smith wrote to the US patent office for the drawings, and they looked it up. THere were no drawings submitted with the patent, it was back in the day before drawings were required so it is just wtitten up. Further we have been unable to find a parts manual and drawings anywhere. I guess this was a fairly rare model manufactured only from 1914-1926. The Model is a Savage 1914.

SO doess anybody have drawings or prints of this rifle, or a source for parts ( Ha, Ha )? With drawings we are planning on milling out a new part, but are trying to take the shot in the dark fiddle with factor out of this.

Its not the smith on this by the way, this rifle is a bitch, I have had five or six smiths look at it, no sucess. My current smith is pretty stubborn and not being able to fix it ( I said fix it not screw it up ) is bugging him and our next step is fabricate a part, but origianl drawings would save a lot of trial and error.

This rifle I had restored about 10 years ago, and I have been fiddling with this minor feed problem for years, lik eI said this is about the 5 smith that has had it, most have just returned it and admitted they can't fix it. Funny thing is it is a break open and looks like it should be simple but it isn't.

I know the rifle isn't worth a lot, but it has been so close to fully restored for so long I am not giving up, this has been going on so long its almost a quest at this point. If it didn't shoot and handle so well I would scrap it buts its way too nice for that.

I wish I had done a set of prints on it 35 years ago when it was working right, but that was a long time ago and I was young and hunting with it not drawing pic's of the parts inside.

Try http://www.savageparts.com/ they have about a dozen exploded drawings for the slide action Savages.

Thanks Fjold, its a start the pics are terrible but it shows them and lists them all. Bad news is one the bottom of the page though:

" THe Model 1914 was discontinued in 1925. It is now obsolete. We cannot make repairs, nor supply parts for it. "

The pics and the original parts might just get a jump start on it.