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Ever since I shouldered my uncle’s Auto 5 many years ago I’ve had a thing for that long recoil hump back design. Over the years I’ve managed to hang on to these three, plus one my son has decided he needs.

All in the 1940s, all with solid ribs, all full choke. The Savage seems to be my favorite but I shoot them all pretty much the same. The Remington is a Sportsman.

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I've got a Savage similar to that. Not even sure how old it is and I never use it. I tried a few times as a kid and it would jam. Probably was never cleaned. I should do a little investigation into it's age. I tried it in the mid-70s and know my dad had it since at least the 1960s but no idea where it came from.

He had several he inherited from my grandfather but that was not one of them. He also had a Model 70 in .270 that I was always told he bought from some guys who used it in S. America to shoot monkeys. had original Bausch and Lomb scope and a quick loc mount. Still has original leather strap too. Brother got that and he uses to it deer hunt every season. I got an 8mm Mauser with no markings on it. Probably from Germany right after the war. Has Lyman sights and a set trigger. Appears to have never been fired.
 
McFarmer said:
Ever since I shouldered my uncle’s Auto 5 many years ago I’ve had a thing for that long recoil hump back design. Over the years I’ve managed to hang on to these three, plus one my son has decided he needs.

All in the 1940s, all with solid ribs, all full choke. The Savage seems to be my favorite but I shoot them all pretty much the same. The Remington is a Sportsman.

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I'm the same way about solid ribs. Is that original wood on the Remington?
 
The oldest Browning designs had a fiber pad in the back of action which would break loose from magnum loads. Most common problem with jams.
 
redcows said:
Nice work. After seeing that I dug my grandfathers out of the safe. The wood on the stock is awesome. Then I noticed the 4 inch crack in the forend. It also has a Hawkin's recoil pad. Was this factory?
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Not certain but most didn’t come with a pad, was maybe an option.
 
15 or so years ago my mom calls me up.

"Do you have any tomatoes?"

"uh, i have 50 plants and its July and the weather has been great, I got more tomatoes than I know what to do with"

"Well, your grandpa wants some tomatoes".

I fill a 5 gallon bucket fresh from the garden, drive the 90 miles to grandpas house and give him the tomatoes.

He yells at grandma back in their bedroom-"Vonnie, bring me my gun". A little back and forth about which gun he's talking about, they bickered their whole life-she brings me his gun. Savage 745?. He'd bought it at an auction he was auctioneering, at my other grandpas neighbor. A direct replacement to the Savage he had back when we still had a lot of quail in southeast Kansas, but had lost in a house fire long before I came along.

Anyways, long way around the barn to say I traded my grandpa a bucket of tomatoes for a humpback Savage right before he passed. I need to find a buttstock for it as it has been cut off at some point and take it to South Dakota this year.
 
If the butt stock has only been shortened get a carpenter to add some wood to it. Not hard to splice a piece on . Can use a different color wood and make your Tomato gun unique.
 
cheesy said:
15 or so years ago my mom calls me up.

"Do you have any tomatoes?"

"uh, i have 50 plants and its July and the weather has been great, I got more tomatoes than I know what to do with"

"Well, your grandpa wants some tomatoes".

I fill a 5 gallon bucket fresh from the garden, drive the 90 miles to grandpas house and give him the tomatoes.

He yells at grandma back in their bedroom-"Vonnie, bring me my gun". A little back and forth about which gun he's talking about, they bickered their whole life-she brings me his gun. Savage 745?. He'd bought it at an auction he was auctioneering, at my other grandpas neighbor. A direct replacement to the Savage he had back when we still had a lot of quail in southeast Kansas, but had lost in a house fire long before I came along.

Anyways, long way around the barn to say I traded my grandpa a bucket of tomatoes for a humpback Savage right before he passed. I need to find a buttstock for it as it has been cut off at some point and take it to South Dakota this year.
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Does it have a recoil pad now ? If not just add one, or a black spacer if it already does.
 
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