founded in 1894
Westfield, Massachusetts & Canada

• 1892 Arthur Savage designed a rifle for Colt
  – magazine in the stock, not under the barrel
  – but contract was won by the Krag–Jørgensen
• 1894 Savage Arms founded by Arthur Savage in Utica, New York
• 1895 Model 1895 the first hammerless lever-action rifle
  – Savage invented the rotary magazine rifle
•  one of six companies to participate in the United States Army trials for a .45 caliber semi-automatic pistol
• 1897 – 1999 Model 99 lever-action rifle made for 102 years
• 1908 invented the removable box magazine
  – but his patent expired in 1942
• .300 Savage. Savage
•  merged with the Driggs-Seabury Ordnance Company
• World War I
  – produced Lewis machine guns in Sharon, Pennsylvania
  – produced Model 1899 muskets
• 1919 approached by Chief Lame Deer to buy rifles for his tribe in New York
  – Lame Deer offered Savage to use his image as its logo in exchange for discounted rifles and an annual fee
• 1091 – Arthur Savage moved to Duarte, California, and formed the Savage Tire company, he invented radial tires
• 1920, Savage Arms bought Stevens Arms of Chicopee Falls, MA
• 1929 Savage acquired the A.H. Fox Gun company of Philadelphia and moved production to Utica, New York
• 1939 Model 24 combination gun
• World War II
  – made most of the Thompson submachine guns used in World War II
  –  produced the British No. 4 Lee–Enfield bolt-action rifle
• 1969 Canadian operations began called Lakefield Arms
  – Lakefield, Ontario
• 2002 the AccuTrigger
• 2018 Savage Arms is still paying the annual fee to Lame Deer

Ammunition

• 1894 –  .303 Savage
• 1912 – .22 Savage Hi-Power
• 1915 – .250-3000 Savage
• 1920 – .300 Savage