The new SAVAGE "EDGE

[blargon]

Looks like it has a tang safety, but it has one on the side...

It's to bad they couldn't hire a designer with more artistic mettle than a gnat to come up with something nice.

X2. They already have cheap models, you'd think they'd want to improve looks/feel rather than build something even cheaper.

 

[Calum]

With the name and stock design, it seems like they are trying to appeal to a younger, more modern crowd.

Interesting that there's no magnum calibers available. Could this gun spell the end of the Stevens?

You mean like the Mossberg Nighttrain wreck?

 

[7.62mm]

From what I have dug up, it is a Tang Safety.......what is the lever on the side for?.....Bolt release?......

This would make a great build for the Bush Carbine that CanAm was maybe going to undertake......just get a special run of 16" barrels, and Bob's your uncle!

 

[Gatehouse]

Another rifle I won't be buying....

 

[DrawBlood]

I'd like to see one in person first.

 

[MadDog]

Looks like it has a tang safety, but it has one on the side...

Thats the bolt release, they've had them there for a long long time.

Just finished putting a Boyds thumbhole on an old 1980's 110 in 7mm-08 and it has it on it, you have to hold the trigger and press on that side lever to get the bolt out.

 

[firemachine69]

I'm worried about the new "Edge". Savage has noted they found a way to lower manufacturing costs down by about $46 on each receiver. That last example was the Mossberg Nighttrain wreck, and we all know how that went over...

 

[jeff270]

It's probably designed to use up a warehouse full of old 110 parts.

 

[blargon]

It's probably designed to use up a warehouse full of old 110 parts.

I thought that's what the stevens was for...

 

[blargon]

Thats the bolt release, they've had them there for a long long time.

Thanks, hard to tell from that s**tty pic on their site...

Savage has noted they found a way to lower manufacturing costs down by about $46 on each receiver.

I don't know why they'd even bother. They aren't saving anything if they sell the rifle cheaper than a stevens. They should have just put a better stock on the stevens and left it at that...

 

[TheCoachZed]

Been reading about this, but I can't figure if this is to replace the Stevens 200?

I hope not, at least not before I can get the cash together to buy one sometime.

 

[DrawBlood]

Been reading about this, but I can't figure if this is to replace the Stevens 200?

I hope not, at least not before I can get the cash together to buy one sometime.

There were so many Stevens produced I don't think they will be hard to find.

 

[TheCoachZed]

Yeah, but you rarely see a .223 on the EE, and even most of those aren't too far off a Savage 111 . . .

 

[Ohno]

Savage needed something to compete against the new Marlin XL/XS.

 

[DrawBlood]

I wonder if they fixed the trigger up a little bit. Personally, I want to buy one just to see what it will do.

 

[timmy204]

Just when I thought savage was back on track aesthetically, they come out with this? That thing is BUTT UGLY.

 

[mikeelliot]

Savage 770 Nighttrain?

 

[iroc22]

You mean like the Mossberg Nighttrain wreck?

Nah, the Mossberg ATR is in a class all on it's own. It would be nice to hear some technical specs on how Savage managed to cost cut on the bolt manufacturing. I'd also wager to say that the stock feels pretty cheap, moreso than the Stevens line even.

 

[Goose25]

FWIW, here's what I could find about it on the WWW

Non-accutrigger. Appearsto be a cast action. RH only. Flat black coating, ( black oxide???). Swept bolt handle. No rear baffle. Centerfeed. Old style barrel nut. Different style tang. Old style tang safety. Standard calibers only, no magnums. Oval loading/ejection port similar to target action. Used normal bolt head/baffle configuration.

 

[archie_james_c]

That thing makes me want to pull my eye's out with dull treble hooks...