Savage 219 and 220 Single Shot Rifles & Shotguns

Thanks Garnett. I did think that is seemed to have been tinkered with along the way. Who knows the reason. The previous owner probably had the best intentions and probably made the rifle better for their own purposes in the day. Our role is not to judge

I managed to shoot some nice groups with it.

I tried my black powder loads and got no where. The 85grain bullet showed evidence of yawing through the target. It was achieving 1350fps through the chronograph, but it did not appear to be stable. I really could not hit the side of the barn from the inside!

A 9.0 and 9.5 grain smokeless load of AR2207 under the same bullet saw some 1" groups at 25m. No exactly bench rest shooting, but given that I only loaded 5 rounds of each for testing, and that I was in a hurry to do other things, I was pleased with the result.

Steve

Garnett,

As requested, here are a couple of shots of the front sight. I also included a better picture of the rear sight.

I am really not fond of this buckhorn sight. It covers so much of the target and I find it hard to get the front sight to the correct height. It maybe that the front sight has had the bead filed away. Or... maybe not.

I will look out for a weaver side mount, but I also wonder what model of top rail may fit this gun. I don't really want to start drilling it, but at the same time, as we have previously discussed, it is pretty worn out. If I could find a nice older model scope, that would be fine by me. My eyes are not what they used to be.

Steve

Just listed all the parts I have.  Have a few complete sets of receiver parts

Thanks for the update.  If you have time, please post a picture of some of your targets with modern bullet styles.

Steve, I reloaded years ago and taught my son and daughter how to load.  The nice thing about reloading, to me, is that years ago, the .25-20, .32-20, and .30-30 were almost all loaded with round or flat nose bullets because they were in magazine tubes of lever action rifles.  I firmly believe that the modern pointed nose bullet types should be more accurate in these Savage single shots.  Please let us know if you try any in your rifle.