Shifting down
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From: Bedford UK
I've owned an ABS bike and done 50K miles on it. I have also gone out and deliberately braked hard on many occasions, to get it to kick in without success. I commuted on it year round in heavy city traffic, but it never worked once, so I can neither say I miss it nor will I go out of my way to buy a bike with it.
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From: Stockbridge GA
You could say the same thing about seat belts in cars. But when you say it about seat belts in cars..............it sounds stupid.
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From: MI
Who in their right mind repeatedly uses Hoppes #9 to clean their firearms other than for lead fouling inside the bore?
About your Savage camper's Companion, what's the date code on it?
Stolen from another site:
A 1949 B 1950 C 1951
D 1952 E 1953 F 1954
G 1955 H 1956 I 1957
J 1958 K 1959 L 1960
M 1961 N 1962 P 1963
R 1964 S 1965 T 1966
U 1967 V 1968 W 1969
X1970
"Collectors will find a date code stamped on every double-barrel shotgun in the Stevens brands produced between March 1949 and December 1968. Usually, it is behind the hinge pin or ahead of the trigger guard on the bottom of the frame. It will appear as a small circle containing a number and a letter. The letters correspond to the years shown in the table above. Significance of the numbers is not known."
The above will help you more closely date your particular specimen to help determine it's value either through "book" value or the perceived value of "collectors." You can then decide if it's in your best interest to leave it as is, or break out the rattle can!
Nice little combo rifles they are, 'never really collectable but with so many types of rifles manufactured by Savage, it's not hard to find one to your liking!
Cheers.
=8^)
About your Savage camper's Companion, what's the date code on it?
Stolen from another site:
A 1949 B 1950 C 1951
D 1952 E 1953 F 1954
G 1955 H 1956 I 1957
J 1958 K 1959 L 1960
M 1961 N 1962 P 1963
R 1964 S 1965 T 1966
U 1967 V 1968 W 1969
X1970
"Collectors will find a date code stamped on every double-barrel shotgun in the Stevens brands produced between March 1949 and December 1968. Usually, it is behind the hinge pin or ahead of the trigger guard on the bottom of the frame. It will appear as a small circle containing a number and a letter. The letters correspond to the years shown in the table above. Significance of the numbers is not known."
The above will help you more closely date your particular specimen to help determine it's value either through "book" value or the perceived value of "collectors." You can then decide if it's in your best interest to leave it as is, or break out the rattle can!
Nice little combo rifles they are, 'never really collectable but with so many types of rifles manufactured by Savage, it's not hard to find one to your liking!
Cheers.
=8^)
Thanks for the info!
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From: In the foothills of southwestern NC - US of A
Learning all kinds of things. Finding none of them letters I dug into it a little more. Turns out old timer had a bad memory lol. He was off by 20-25 years. Mine was made in 1975. It looks like it was made in the 50s though. Both bores look new, wood is in perfect shape. It looks like it was stored in a real humid enviroment though. The metal is about 30-40% with mostly rust and some light pitting. The 22 barrel is accurate though. Going to soak it some more and get as much rust off and paint that bad boy up.
Thanks for the info!
Thanks for the info!
Sorry to hear that the outside of the 24C isn't in the greatest of shape but that can easily be overcome, and with the bores being nice and clean and rust free it's all that really matters from a shootin' standpoint, unless you're making a wallhanger.
Happy hunting
!!=8^)
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From: Stockbridge GA
I know you never said it.........I said it. But the same principle applies. If you ALWAYS drive safely and NEVER come across something unexpected, a seat belt is useless, it would be a crutch used in place of safe driving. Sounds (and is) stupid. Now replace "seat belt" with "ABS" in the sentence above, which is what your saying............sounds just as stupid.
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From: West of Texas
I have no clue. I have never had the ***** to try and lock up a bike thats not mine to test ABS. Maybe I can, maybe I can not. If I ever get an ABS bike and get a chance to test it out, it might take half a million miles of riding to find out if it works or not for me. Never needed it on a bike before. Last 3 cages we have had were ABS. More than half a million miles between the two of us on them cars and never once have the ABS features been tested.
ABS is a crutch to good skills and practice. Just because it may infact be better, dont mean it is a replacement to practice and skills learned on the road.
Time to go get the date off of my Savage
ABS is a crutch to good skills and practice. Just because it may infact be better, dont mean it is a replacement to practice and skills learned on the road.
Time to go get the date off of my Savage
Is this thread about gearing down or ABS or guns?
Oh well, I'm out of here, I got a story to write.
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From: MI
I know you never said it.........I said it. But the same principle applies. If you ALWAYS drive safely and NEVER come across something unexpected, a seat belt is useless, it would be a crutch used in place of safe driving. Sounds (and is) stupid. Now replace "seat belt" with "ABS" in the sentence above, which is what your saying............sounds just as stupid.
My point is why stop at ABS when it is only a piece of the problem. Just me, but I see no point in blaming the motorcycle if someone locks the brakes up, loses traction or follows too closely. Besides, if you are going to hit something because of something that is not your fault or not in control of, you are going to hit it or get hit by it, the fact a computer stopped the tires from locking instead of the rider doing it will not change anything.
Last edited by Dusty Bones; Sep 13, 2013 at 11:51 AM.
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From: MI
Now who's the flower sniffer? I only have 136k on my Suburban and I'd say I've activated the ABS at least 10 times. Of course when I'm in the cage I've got places to go and things to do. Lots of dirt roads with deer, antelope, coyotes and big rocks that weren't there yesterday. I've activated the ABS on my bike once, sand on the street.
Is this thread about gearing down or ABS or guns? Oh well, I'm out of here, I got a story to write.
Is this thread about gearing down or ABS or guns?
Oh well, I'm out of here, I got a story to write.
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From: St. Louis Mo.
I know you never said it.........I said it. But the same principle applies. If you ALWAYS drive safely and NEVER come across something unexpected, a seat belt is useless, it would be a crutch used in place of safe driving. Sounds (and is) stupid. Now replace "seat belt" with "ABS" in the sentence above, which is what your saying............sounds just as stupid.