As a lover of classic and antique sporting arms, 1903 Springfields and 1899 Savages top my list for early 1900's arms. Thus I joined this forum for 1903 stuff. But for Savages check out 24hourcampfire.com and go to the Savage forum link. Very good group of guys over there, very active and knowledgeable, and helpful too. My name over there is Northwest Hunter, since someone was already using Wind River. Damn.
Ealier someone mentioned that David Royal's book had errors. That is might be true, as researching anything 100 years ago is likely to encounter contradictions in sources at the minimum. But the book is great, full color, very thorough and well presented. He was planning on writing another book solely about engraved examples such as the one xausa pointed out, but is having issues with his publisher. Anyhow I liked the book, glad to see someone giving this oft overlooked rifle some coverage.
