The B's of the early 1950s and late '40s in 16 and 20 had a certain attraction for me. While a bit heavy for guage, they were plain, had nice straight grained walnut stocks w/hand checkering, were well-enough finished and lacked all the later models' bells and whistles that added price and weight while adding absolutely nothing to function.
Once Savage started trying to cater to the (apparent) taste in whiteline stock fittings, extra fake engraving, fancy stamped checkering, oversized clubby beavertails, single triggers that "sometimes" worked, and ejectors ditto, I lost interest.
The 12s were always just farmer guns or backup duck guns to me--nobody wants to lug one of them very far. And the .410s are just plain odd, even for .410s.
