Savage Navy

[tom in nc]

I wish someone made a reproduction of the Savage Navy .36 revolver.

 

[Long Johns Wolf]

Someone did!
Unknown German smith, during the 1980s.
Repro together with an original for comparison.
Long Johns Wolf

 

[wiscoaster]

Forgotten Weapons did a piece on this revolver:

 

[NeilMacleod]

Very Nice Looking

 

[tom in nc]

I have a good friend, the one who's lathe and milling machine I can use, who has built muzzleloaders from scratch before. He kinda specialized in underhammer, HEAVY barrel match rifles. He kicked butt at Friendship IN for several years. I'm gonna issue him challenge to built he and myself a couple of Savage revolvers.

 

[fishmusic]

Very slick mechanism. Too bad it wasn't in .44 cal.

 

[azmntman]

Nice, but odd looking? what year?

 

[wiscoaster]

. deleted because wrong thread in browser history

 

[tom in nc]

Yeah, I read that a goverment order didn't happen, so massive numbers were never made because the decision makers in charge didn't believe that a .36 was enough gun for the army. Seems odd to me that the US Navy was good with a .36 but the Army wanted .44s.

 

[Smokey Plainsman]

Yeah, I read that a goverment order didn't happen, so massive numbers were never made because the decision makers in charge didn't believe that a .36 was enough gun for the army. Seems odd to me that the US Navy was good with a .36 but the Army wanted .44s.

The requirement came from the Army pistols potentially needing to kill cavalry horses. The .44 was ultimately better suited to that than the .36s.

 

[Whitworth]

Have a metal detecting buddy who found 12 of their weird looking bullets in one small area of a campground a few miles north of Sharpsburg. He's the only guy in my circle of detecting friends who found any.