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As of 2018, Savage Arms' sales made up just 7% of Vista Outdoor's overall business. [18] As of May 2018, Savage Arms had 367 workers at its factory in Westfield, Massachusetts. [13] On July 9, 2019, Vista Outdoor completed the sale of Savage Arms [19] and Stevens Arms for $170 million to a group of investors led by Savage's management. Vista ...
The prototype for the .220 Swift was developed in 1934–35 by Grosvenor Wotkyns who necked down the .250-3000 Savage as a means of achieving very high velocities. However the final commercial version developed by Winchester is based on the 6mm Lee Navy cartridge necked down, but besides inheriting headspacing on its rim from the parent, a feature already considered obsolete by 1930s, the ...
ATK announced this morning that it has agreed to buy Caliber Co., the parent company of Savage Sports, for $315 million cash, representing a 5.5 multiple of its ATK to Acquire Shotgun and Hunting ...
This was a historic move on Browning's part as there was no commercial production of the .22-250 at the time. John T. Amber, reporting on the development of the Browning rifle in the 1964 Gun Digest, called the event "unprecedented". "As far as I know", he wrote, "this is the first time a first-line arms-maker has offered a rifle chambered for ...
The .225 Winchester was chambered in factory rifles by Winchester (Models 70 and 670) and Savage (Model 340). All commercially produced rifles chambered in .225 Winchester were turn-bolt or break actions.
The Model 520 last appeared in a Stevens sales publication in 1928 and 1929 (Catalog #57) [5] but remained in full production until 1939. [16] During this time it was sold as a store branded gun and under Stevens' budget line Riverside Arms. The shotgun went through several design changes during this period.
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The "Foster slug", invented by Karl M. Foster in 1931, and patented in 1947 (U.S. patent 2,414,863), is a type of shotgun slug designed to be fired through a smoothbore shotgun barrel, even though it commonly labeled as a "rifled" slug. A rifled slug is for smooth bores and a sabot slug is for rifled barrels.