Found a Savage model 24!!

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This is my personal Model 24. Technically, it's a Savage 24V, series C, made by Savage in Westfield, MA in 1963. It's a .223 over 20 gauge 3-inch. Originally the rifle barrel was chambered for .222 Remington, but a previous owner rechambered it for the more available .223.

I equipped it with an old Weaver 1X scope (no magnification). This works great with the .223, and can be ignored when the 20 gauge is fired.

It's hard to find a more versatile gun.

John
 
Jessie said:
I picked up a 30-30 over 20ga. just for our overlapping white tail and turkey season.
Got caught flat footed by some turkeys with a .308 in hand.
Never again!
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Now that's the combo I would want!
 
One of the attractive things about the Model 24 is that it is adaptable. I have a 24C and over the years have added a Savage 410'er accessory barrel that fits in the 20 gauge barrel and allows, as you might expect, shooting 410 shells. In addition, I added an old .357 insert barrel which expands the variety of ammo greatly. All of this fits in the take down case.

My son asked why I would want to do that and all I could say was that when I was growing up I always wanted a TinkerToy set and never got one.
 
My 24F is .30-30 over 12 gauge. Very heavy and very versatile. The .30-30 barrel is extremely accurate with everything I have ever shot through it, from very reduced loads using cast pistol bullets to full power cast and jacketed loads. I always wondered why the Europeans always put the rifle barrel on the bottom of their combo guns. Hitting with my shotgun barrel was always very difficult since it's not regulated. I shot a round of trap with it once and was thoroughly humiliated, breaking something like 4 out of 25 birds.
 
Just picked up a 24 with .22 mag/.410, K code indicating it is a 1959 model which should be the first year the .22 mag was offered anywhere. The finish is not the best but the gun is quite serviceable. Probably save it for a g'kid.
 
When I was a kid a good buddy of mine had one (his fathers actually) I seem to remember that it was a 20 gauge lower with a 22 mag upper. Could be wrong about the 22 mag. I think he used it to shoot trap until he got his own shotgun.
 
I used to have one, but it was a cheap Stevens with a hardwood stock and forearm. The selector switch was on the hammer. Having grown up on a single shot shotgun, with a manually cocked hammer, it was no big deal for me to cock or uncock. I learned how the first day and never had a problem.

I was having a painting party one day when I started off painting bow camo, and added a Sears 12 ga pump, and that Stevens 22/20 got the treatment too. I used that little Stevens for squirrel hunting for years. Since deer season was open the same time as squirrel, the plan was to use the 22 barrel for squirrels, and keep a round of #2, 3" magnum buckshot in the 20 barrel in case a deer "walked up on me." It never happened to me, but it could have. I learned the "two shells between my fingers" and could reload it not quite as fast as I could shuck a pump, but fast enough. Before and after deer season #6 shot was in the 20 gauge barrel.

I considered it to be the finest "pot hunters" gun ever made. I wish I'd kept it.
 
Absalom said:
I had that same issue with the rimfire barrel on mine. I don't think we ever dealt with it; getting a misfire every 20 or 30 rounds just wasn't considered a big deal on a "non-critical" gun.
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The common solution is to tweak the mainspring plunger head angle, involves a bit of trial and error. I'd defer to Paladin if there is a better fix. I've owned a few of them but I definitely can't call myself an authority!
 
I love this old thread! I was in Aumiller's gun shop in Westerville, Ohio last week and there was a 24 222/20 in the corner. Since I have 3, I'll pass on that combo.

Ivan
 
Ivan the Butcher said:
I love this old thread! I was in Aumiller's gun shop in Westerville, Ohio last week and there was a 24 222/20 in the corner. Since I have 3, I'll pass on that combo.

Ivan
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.222/20 was my first one, paid 100 bucks for it about 10 years ago. I believe it had a full choke and man it could reach out and dust pigeons! Sold it for 450 a few years ago when something shiny caught my eye though.
 
Back in the 60's several of my friends had them in the 22/410 configuration. Those were about the best squirrel-hunting combo you could find in eastern NC. If you missed with rifle and he started running in that Spanish moss you could use the 410. It was one lethal combination.
 
fiasconva said:
Back in the 60's several of my friends had them in the 22/410 configuration. Those were about the best squirrel-hunting combo you could find in eastern NC. If you missed with rifle and he started running in that Spanish moss you could use the 410. It was one lethal combination.
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Ditto for the woods of southern Missouri.
Equally effective on rabbits too.
 
WOW, menory rush!!, now I will dig out the savage 24, pre serial number selector on the side, 22lr/410 my dad left me recently.
Thanks for this thread.
Semper paratus
 
I had one, repeat had one 22 Hornet, 20 gauge. Wish I still had it. By reloading you can make that Hornet do all kinds of things.

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They are truly great guns! Real game getters. I have an old 24C, one of the most accurate .22s you will find. Good score.
 
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