Help Id'ing a rifle

[hipshot]

A friend wants to sell me a rifle and we can't figure out what it is worth, It says "savage .22 hs l. lr. and somewhere else on the barrel it is marked springfield. Also the model # is 187H i don't have the rifle with me so I am relying on my memory from last night's phone conversation. Any help would be appriciated.
I could not find anything in the blue book about the gun either?
Thanks alot!

 

[1mathom1]

Pics will help. Many years ago, gun manufacturers mixed and mingled....particularly on small arms. Stevens, Savage, Springfield...names often found on the same firearm.....and often were the same gun but with different names...Sears....Monkey Wards.....

Quick google search got this:

http://www.icollector.com/SPRINGFIE...be-mag-blued-finish-with-hardwood-st_i8755023

 

[okie headhunter]

a good id referance is nunrich parts web sight or catalog and the gundigest takedown books. they list guns by there manufactors. I would bet that the s l lr stands for short,long and long rifle.

 

[1mathom1]

Sometimes on the oldies hs stood for high speed. The markings here MAY mean high speed long and long rifle. Much of the time the auto loaders would not take shorts but would feed longs and long rifles. The single shots as well as bolt and lever repeaters would feed anything.

 

[okie headhunter]

good point ,I had forgoten that. it sure seem that in todays guns the long rifle's have taken over. I remember as a kid about all we ever hunted with were shorts because they were cheaper now when you can fid them there 3 times the price of long rifles.

 

[1mathom1]

I did help a guy with an old Remington 550 autoloader that would shoot anything due to the floating chamber.....but that was about the only autoloader from the time frame of his old Springfield/Savage. Yeah....longs are hard to find. Seems I see shorts and even CB caps more often than longs.

 

[HMFIC]

it's a springfield savage model 187. i have one too. shoots s l lr.

it's basically one of those $100 guns with average condition. it'll never bring more than $150.

 

[ENC]

Yeah what he said. I have had a few over the years paid between 75 and a hundred