Thanks- I'm gonna refinish it, and let my 6 year old Grandson shoot it a bit later- but with .22 shorts (and a good cleaning of the chamber area afterwards, as it is marked for .22LR- when did Savage acquire Stevens then- perhaps this is a later series. I might need a new firing pin- it fires about 1 in 3 times with the .22 shorts- can the milled flat on the firing pin be filed out a bit to allow more forward travel from the cross pin that is peened in place? a 'field fix"??

"The field is the touchstone of the man"..