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Savage Arms factory records
Who holds this maker's production records today, whether a serial table exists at all, and what it costs to have the archive read them.
Savage is the clearest example of a maker that used to do this and no longer does. Collectors who contacted Savage directly have been told the company no longer performs historical lookups and has handed its records to the Cody Firearms Museum. So the answer to "how do I date my Savage" changed hands, and anyone working from an older forum answer — or from the assumption that the maker still letters its own guns — will spend weeks finding that out.
Who holds the records today
Covers Savage and Stevens production records
Serial table published by the maker?
No.
No browsable Savage serial table is published by the brand.
Archive letter
Cost: from $95 (non-member rate)
Waiting time: weeks
Observed 2026-10-14 — confirm with the archive before ordering.
Can a serial number date a Savage Arms?
From the serial number alone, generally no — and that is the honest answer rather than a gap in this site. There is no published table to compare the number against, so any year you find online for this maker comes from a secondary reconstruction, and those are exactly as reliable as their author.
Dating then rests on what is on the gun: the maker's marking and address, the model and its catalogued period, proof marks and their era, patent dates, and the manufacturer's own model history.
Reference work
Savage Arms: The Guns and the Company — Bill West.
Date a firearm by its serial number
The lookup covers only makers that publish their own browsable chart — and it says which, and cites the threshold behind every result.
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