hi guys thanks for tuning in to another
video on Forgotten weapons comm I'm in
and today I'm going to do a redo of a
video that I did on 25 caliber savage
pocket pistols there are two reasons for
this one is that I now actually have
available both the different styles of
them so I can show you both types and
secondly and more importantly thanks to
a friend of mine named Bill chase I
actually now know how to disassemble
these so I'm going to show you that as
well
now the basic history of these is pretty
simple because only like 25 of them were
ever made basically savage wanted to
introduce a competitor to the Browning
pocket 1908 model pistol Browning hadn't
had developed to 25 acp cartridge for
that pistol it was a very popular gun
between when it was introduced in like
1941 colt managed to sell something like
400,000 of those pistols an absolute
pocket load of them and savage wanted in
on that market there was definitely a
market for a pocket-sized concealable
small caliber pistol so Savage put a lot
of investment into developing these
pistols obviously all the parts are
different things like molds for the grip
panels had to be developed all that and
this pistol doesn't really share any
mechanical features with the standard
1907 1915 1917 savage pistols share some
of their stylistic elements like the
magazine release and the grip safety and
the slide serrations but that's about as
far as it goes so the first version this
one with the wide slide serrations was
developed development started in like
1912 the guns were actually manufactured
in 1914 or 1915 and they did a series of
about 20 of them stereo numbered
sequentially they then had a second
batch that were done in 1917 which have
much a larger number of narrow grip
serrations those it appears rarely have
serial numbers they also don't have the
the address markings and there were
probably sale samples but neither of
these ultimately went anywhere and
Savage never put either of them into
major production so why don't we go
ahead and take a closer look at some of
the details and how to disassemble these
things so
are our two different models as I
mentioned the wide slide serrations are
the first one produced 1914 or 1915 the
narrow later style slide serrations are
the later model produced probably 1917
and again neither of these went into any
substantial serial production now on the
guns that are serial numbered one would
expect to find serial numbers right here
on the bottom of the grip they start at
1001 is 1019 they all have this M suffix
which stands for something we don't know
what the grips are rather different than
standard they have the savage word at
the top and in the Indianhead logo the
safety is kind of a carryover from the
standard savage guns you can see it's
engraved there safe and fire so that's
safe that's the fire position there is
also a little tiny grip safety on these
the magazine release is like that of the
standard savage pistols so we have a six
round magazine of 25 automatic here you
can see the mag catch not right there in
the front and mechanically these are
just simple blowback so nothing
particularly special to them then the
later version is mechanically identical
still blowback just has different
styling to the grip serrations same
magazine release back we're going to
take the mag out here in order to
disassemble its will pull that now these
often don't have serial numbers this one
does and it's a number that's been added
right here
most likely it's hard to say this may
have been a gun that was like snuck out
of the factory by an employee at some
point without the factory's permission
and then they added a serial number
later on because they decided it needed
to have one I would kind of expect this
to be serialized down here like the
others but it's not so a little bit of a
question as to the origin of this
particular model or this particular
example e lastly we can take a look at
the address line here Savage Arms
Company Utica New York USA
patents applied for caliber twenty five
and six point three five millimeter
25 and 635 are the same thing that's 25
ACP you can see on the late model gun
here there's nothing at all inscribed on
the top of the slide alright
disassembly of these is really stupidly
complex so first I'm going to put the
safety in this middle position then this
is actually a pin and I'm going to push
it out of the way to press the grip
safety as well get that just in the
right spot
we need this to pivot out of the way
like that now that this is released this
is going to allow us to pull the slide
stop out the back once it's in there we
go okay so that comes out this is our
striker spring and then this is just
this is what compresses the striker
spring and prevents the slide from
coming off the back of the frame now
that that is out you'd think you like
pull the slide back lift up and draw it
forward nope not the case instead this
square block is the breech block which
is separate from the slide so what I
need to do is pull the slide all the way
back and then the breech block comes out
the bottom like that and then I can
gently release the slide and then the
slide comes off the front there you go
there is a field-stripped savage 25 ACP
prototype the barrel is fixed in place
like on most of these little pistols and
striker-fired
there's our striker we've got a
mainspring here that wraps around the
barrel and it's actually pinned in place
by the front sight so if you want to
take the mainspring out you have to
actually unscrew it which I'm not going
to bother doing here we have the breech
block which is separate from the slide
it's got this lug that locks it into the
slide and then a slot for a striker and
firing pin extractor on top there you go
thanks for watching guys
the 25 caliber savages are an extremely
rare piece of savage firearms history
here and it's really cool that now we're
able to take a look at both types and
take them apart so appreciate you
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