The Savage 1907 handguns sold well, shot great, and look interesting. In their day they were quite popular and offered shooters the ability to quickly shoot off 10 rounds before having to reload, which was quite impressive for a pocket pistol. In this installment of TFBTV, we do some shooting with the little Savage.

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(gunshots) (clicking) – The Savage 1907 pistols are interesting to say the least.

The vast majority of early, small caliber self-loaders were straight blowback but this gun employs a sort of delayed blowback, rotating barrel system, which is quite interesting.

However, what sold these guns was capacity.

In an era where single stack pistols were standard, this gun employed a staggered, double-column/single-feed magazine, that offered 10 rounds of.32 on tap or nine rounds of.380, which was very impressive.

Also impressively, the guns featured no screws at all and even the grips snapped firmly into place.

The bluing, even after a hundred years, looks fantastic on this example and I must say, that I think these guns look terrific.

They also sold quite well, with over 200,000 made in just 12 years.

But let’s take a closer look at some of this gun’s features.

First you’ll notice that these striations on the rear of the slide, to charge the pistol, are quite big and pronounced.

It makes racking the slide very easy and it also makes clearing malfunctions, equally easy.

Now it does have a magazine toe release which I really don’t like, maybe it’s that I’m used to either a traditional magazine release or a heel magazine release, but I suppose they’re thinking was since you had ten rounds, it didn’t matter much.

You can also see here, how the barrel rotates and delays the opening of the action just a little bit.

Not a lot, but I suppose it was better than nothing.

The gun also does have the appearance of a hammer on the back, but that’s actually just a mechanism to cock the gun.

The safety is also easy to deactivate and you can do it with your right thumb.

It can also be used to retain the slide to the rear if you want to lock it open for cleaning or some other purpose.

As mentioned the magazines are staggered, double-column/single-feed, but they’re not staggered as much as a Browning Hi Power or something like that.

So, people generally don’t say this is an early double-column/single-feed magazine for whatever reason, I’m not sure why.

Loading it is just like a Browning Hi Power or similar double-column/single-feed magazine.

And being as how this is a.380 model, it does hold nine rounds in the magazine and one in the chamber.

So you still did have a total capacity of 10 rounds and their advertising slogan of, “10 Shots Quick!” Was very suiting and sold a whole lot of guns, making the Savage Corporation a lot of money.

As an interesting aside, they also made a couple of these in.45 ACP to compete it against the 1911 in that pistol trial.

So let’s shoot it a little bit more.

(gunshots) (clicking) (gunshots) (clicking) The trigger on this gun is not too bad and the recoil is not snappy either, or at least not as snappy as other.380s that I’ve messed with, that are comparably sized.

However, I did have a malfunction here.

I’ve shot this gun more than a lot of other guns in the collection of the same vintage and it’s very rare that this gun doesn’t work as expected.

Perhaps it was this type of ammunition that it didn’t like, but I cleared it, and then it got back ticking and worked just fine.

Really it’s an accurate gun, as well.

I have no picks with this gun and while it’s heavier and larger than other.380s on the market today and probably wouldn’t be a viable competitor, you certainly wouldn’t be that outclassed if you had to use this in some sort of altercation today.

(clicking) (gunshots) (clicking) (gunshots) (clicking) Proxibid has a lot of upcoming firearm auctions this weekend and if you’d like to own a Savage 1907, that might be a great place to look as well.

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So thank you very much for watching and we hope to see you next time.