Llama Firearms Serial Numbers
Running a gun serial number search before you buy will make sure you get a gun that you can legally own and register in your name. Kartochki shemi provedeniya eksperimentov v dou o. Locate the serial number for the gun you want to check. If you are purchasing a gun or checking one that is already in your possession, you can check the documentation that came with the gun.
At the business end of the pistol there's a knarled, spring loaded doohickey. With a small screw driver, press in on that so you can twist the holder at the tip of the barrel either left or right to release the spring loaded doohickey. Put the gun down & go search for the doohickey since it probably shot across the room. Push the receiver back til the side safety catch is lined up with the notch on the receiver. You can either pull the safety out or push it out from the other side. The slide will then come off.
The aforementioned holder can be twisted in the opposite direction previously mentioned & it will come out. There's a pool cue arch looking thingy that fits into the slide. Pick it up from the floor (it fell out). This is all the further you need to go with the dissambly.
The hardest part is getting the side safety pulled out because it has to be aligned with notch on the slide just so. Take it to he gun display counter at Academy Sporting Goods & the clerk will put it back together for you. The serial number on all Savage automatic pistols (model 1907, model 1915, and model 1917, all in.32 and.380) will be found just under the barrel at the front edge of the frame. Early model 1907 pistols will have the s/n on the bottom of the frame, while later model 1907 and all other models will have the s/n on the front of the frame. All.380 Savage pistols will start or end with the letter 'B' -- the first few hundred (all are model 1907 pistols) start with 'B,' while all the rest end with 'B.' It is not uncommon for the 'B' to be misread as an '8.'
FYI, the 'hammerless' model 1915 is the rarest production Savage automatic pistol, and the.380 model 1915 is the rarer of these. About 6500.32 model 1915 pistols were made in 1915-1916 (approx s/n 130000 - 136500) and about 3900.380 model 1915 pistols were made in 1915-1917 (approx s/n 10000B - 13900B).
Llamapage Spanish Blue Steel by Llama Or as translated from Spanish Flame RK Smith There is an enormous amount of incorrect information out there about the model numbers on the guns Llama made and I have done my best in identifying them to correct it. This research project has been both a rewarding and frustrating experience. A large number of the guns were in my collection to assist in this endeavor and I think I now have it all as it should be. The years the series of IIIA's were made however is still in question.
I want to inform you before you go any further that the designations of series and variation are my designations and not those of Llama. I do it to show that there were major changes made to the guns every few years and there were even variations within those years. In 2005 Llama closed its doors for the last time due to lack of sales and a bankruptcy. This followed the demise of Astra and Star in about 1997. They simply failed to compete with all of the other gun manufacturers out there, I think due to the bad reputation Spanish guns acquired during the first World War and the restrictions place on them by the Spanish government. Llama also is reported to have made bad guns during the 80's, but to this day I have never found one. During the 80's they went to making the 9mm P a blow back, I think to cut down on manufacturing costs and that did not help either.
Because of the cheap prices Llama's might not have been finished as well as the Colt, but with a bit of work, polishing parts, they work great and I have some early ones that are fantastic. Otchet o rezuljtatah upravlencheskoj deyateljnosti rukovoditelya dou dlya attes. Gabilondo y Uresti started producing the Radium seven shot 6.35 in 1910. The patent of the 'Radium' was in the name of Don Guillermo Echeverria and of Don Valentin Vallejo. The patent was a weird form of loading the gun by sliding the right grip and inserting the rounds into the butt directly. The one I have seen had Spanish proofs and that is not consistent with there not being a proof house in Ebiar at that time.