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"Being prepared is sometimes inconvenient, but not being prepared is always inconvenient." - Fred Choate
Well, I guess patience pays off. Next week I should be picking up a 24v in .357 Magnum over 20ga. It is not cheap, but it is the first I have ever seen for sale around here, and I have been looking for well over a decade or more.
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Out of all the combinations they offered in the Savage 24 that particular one has to be in my top 17!
All kidding aside I think the .357/20ga or the 30-30/20ga would be my top two, and a difficult decision.
Also a decision I will probably never get to make, since I have also been searching for over a decade for what I could not afford when it was being produced.
If you didn't bring jerky what did I just eat?
At one point I had looked at a 30-30 over 12 ga....Was that heavy......at the time I was'nt a "survivor or prep-per", just a hunter/gatherer....and though "Holy Molly is this heavy....why would anyone want to haul that around all day".
This was back when they were like $200 -250 or so........
Should have bought it.....
Can't say I have ever seen a .357/20 ga, but will keep my eyes open...not that I really "need it".....just because.
The last two New M24's I saw were a .17/20 ga and a .17/12 ga........and they stayed at Gander Mountain forever.
I think they were shipped out when the store re-did their gun section from the walk around racks and play with them... to the counters in the way, up on a locked rack....and no help, days.
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First 50 years...worried about the small stuff...second 50 years....Not so much
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They did get heavy in the big calibers, pricy too, for that era.
But wait!! there is hope!
http://www.budsgunshop.com/catalog/p...Picatinny+Rail
These are the old Baikal firearms. They are offered in combos Savage never considered, like 7.62x39/12ga. also in .223, .308 and a few others like .22 lr and .22 WRM over .410 just as the old/new Savages, and they are a better made gun than the new plastic wonder.
http://www.budsgunshop.com/catalog/p...crew+In+Chokes
The shotgun barrels can even be had with interchangeable choke tubes.
This is the same action type that was sold by Remington as their Spartan series a few years back. They are absolutely built like a bank vault, or a Russian peasant woman, your choice of terms.
Last edited by kyratshooter; 05-09-2014 at 04:55 PM.
If you didn't bring jerky what did I just eat?
Friend of mine just got an older Baikal .223/12 ga in a trade.
He hasn't shot it yet, and doesn't look like anyone had shot it either......traded a Benelli Nova 12 ga for it....standard D.U. dinner prize issue......so he got a deal.....I think...LOL
My M24 are .22 lr/20 ga Camper model...and .22 mag/20 ga standard length.....not sure which one I like the best....22 mag version is on the tractor when I'm mowing in the lower fields.
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Evoking the 50 year old rule...
First 50 years...worried about the small stuff...second 50 years....Not so much
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I own or have owned a few. .22/20ga Camper, 30-30/20ga, .22 mag/20ga, .22/.410, and now .357/20ga. All were fun. But I now only have the Camper, 30-30/20ga, and .357/20ga. The other two were traded off for other stuff. They were fun, but somewhat redundant to other stuff I normally use.
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I'm finding I'm liking a scope more these days and the M24 can mount a scope....but is suggested (actually printed on the barrel) to not shoot the shotgun with it, and does get in the way for wing shooting.
I have taken it off. so it's back to irons.
Geezer Squad....Charter Member #1
Evoking the 50 year old rule...
First 50 years...worried about the small stuff...second 50 years....Not so much
Member Wahoo Killer knives club....#27
Have Lights? Thank a Lineman!
"Being prepared is sometimes inconvenient, but not being prepared is always inconvenient." - Fred Choate
Geezer Squad....Charter Member #1
Evoking the 50 year old rule...
First 50 years...worried about the small stuff...second 50 years....Not so much
Member Wahoo Killer knives club....#27
This .357 sure shoots nice. Very accurate with the open sites. Just need to brighten the front bead a bit. Hard to pick it up in lower light.
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"Being prepared is sometimes inconvenient, but not being prepared is always inconvenient." - Fred Choate
I picked a Savage 24, .22/20ga. made in 1981 along with another rifle in a trade for saddle. Handy little gun around the place. Love to shoot pocket gophers with it.
Ride, Shoot Straight, and Speak the Truth.
My kid brother recently bought one with a 30-30 on top and a 12 gauge on the bottom. Cost? $650! Why do these have to come up so high?...
SARGE
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I have one in 30-30/20ga.. I broke the plastic trigger guard so I had a machinist friend make me one out of brass.
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Last edited by blackfinger; 07-04-2014 at 11:12 PM.
Great guns love them too!! :
CW
Last edited by cwlongshot; 08-27-2014 at 05:04 AM.
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Just picked up a 22mag over 20ga. Really don't need one, but it was to good to pass up.
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"Being prepared is sometimes inconvenient, but not being prepared is always inconvenient." - Fred Choate
I went many many years looking rejecting finding not willing to pay price finding junk ECT ECT...
Then I bit the bullet on a very clean 22/410 about twelve to fifteen years back on GB. 500$ was a lot but it was the nicest I had ever seen to date and even today. 90% case colors good bluing nice walnut (no figure) and very good shooter both for accuracy and regulation.
I helped a neighbors widow sell off some firearms and I was rewarded with my second. A 24dlx 22m over 20. Another fine condition savage. The Maggie shoots great the 20 g is FEET DIFFERENT AT 50yards I have tried it on clays and it's dismal. I'm usually a pretty good shotgun shot.
Last year I found a 30/30 20g while looking for a 357 20. It's in good condition I refinished it's stocks as PO tried but kinda failed. . Then I trimmed because of the faulty pad angle of recoil pad. It was short so I had to resort to a slightly thicker pad OR shim stock. I chose thick pad. It looks good and feels correct now. I still have not shot it.
I would really like to find a 24C 22/20g and re chamber to Maggie. (My favorite 22) ratty the better as I want it as a truck/ ATV gun and it will see rough use. I don't want to worry about it's finish I'll likely coat it anyhow.
I really like these combo guns!
CW
Support our troops! We all owe a debt we cannot begin to repay, start with support of the PEOPLE in the uniforms.
Note:
A local gun shop has two M-24s on the shelf. Both are .22LR/20gauge. Both are in good shape. Both are in the $350-$400 range.
PM me if you want details.
If I had not just scored another 24-C "Campers Companion", I would buy one.
-Mert
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