Arthur Savage founded his company in 1894 on a lever-action rifle, and in September 2024 the Revel Classic and Revel DLX arrived as a pair of walnut-stocked rimfires built around a takedown action.
This week, Savage added a third Revel lever-action rimfire that ditches the walnut. The Revel Tactical keeps the same action and the same chamberings, .22 Long Rifle, .22 WMR and .17 HMR, but swaps the wood for a black synthetic stock from MDT and comes with much of what some lever-gun owners have been adding on their own lately.
MDT is a name precision rifle shooters know from the chassis systems under their bolt guns, and the buttstock looks like it came off one: skeletonized, with a clip-on cheek riser to bring your eye up to a scope. Savage reshaped the pistol grip for this model. MDT covered it in coarse texture and carried that treatment out onto the fore-end, with M-LOK slots offering real estate for a sling or bipod.
A one-piece Picatinny rail now comes mounted on the receiver, where earlier Revels shipped drilled and tapped and left the base up to the owner. Adjustable irons with a hooded front post are still there if you’d rather skip the scope.
Savage also threaded the 18-inch medium-profile barrel 1/2x28, the pitch most .22 suppressors use. Lever actions take to suppressors well. Nothing moves when the shot breaks, so no gas leaks back through the action the way it does on a blowback semi-automatic. Put a can on the muzzle, feed it subsonic .22 Long Rifle rounds, and what reaches your ears is mostly a muffled pop and the smack of the bullet downrange. If you plan to shoot the magnums suppressed, check your can’s rating first, since not every rimfire suppressor is cleared for .22 WMR or .17 HMR.
Capacity matches the walnut models at 12 rounds of .22 Long Rifle or nine of either magnum chambering. The takedown is the same, too. You can push out its two retaining pins with the tip of a spare cartridge, and the rifle separates into halves small enough for a backpack.
The Revel Tactical weighs 6 pounds and comes in right-hand only. Watch Savage Arms Senior Product Manager RJ Contorno review the new rifle in this video.
| Savage Revel Tactical Specifications | |
| Manufacturer | Savage Arms, Westfield, Mass. |
| Action | Lever-action, rimfire, takedown |
| Chamberings (SKU) | .22 Long Rifle (46040); .22 WMR (46140); .17 HMR (46240) |
| Capacity | 12 rounds (.22 Long Rifle); 9 rounds (.22 WMR, .17 HMR) |
| Barrel | 18-in. medium profile, threaded 1/2x28 |
| Sights | Adjustable iron sights, hooded front |
| Optics Mount | One-piece Picatinny rail |
| Stock | MDT synthetic, black; clip-on cheek riser; M-LOK fore-end |
| Weight | 6 lbs. |
| Handedness | Right |
| MSRP | $629 (.22 LR); $659 (.22 WMR, .17 HMR) |
MSRP is $629 for the .22 Long Rifle model and $659 for the .22 WMR and .17 HMR. For more information, visit savagearms.com.
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