Classic Combo Gun

I do love combo guns. I only have one, savage 24 .22/..410.
Keeping an eye out for a .30/30/?12?

Not my cup of tea, but that's certainly a good looking rifle/gun and one of the better combinations. Congratulations!

Savage put some nice wood on those 24s

Did a quick check on Gunbroker and found some of those with .222 over 20ga as well as 30-30 over 20ga - but no .357 over 20ga. Great find... and very interesting...

I have the .222 over 20.....cool guns.

Here's mine, 22mag/20ga. I woulda jumped on a 357mag one if I could have.

The ultimate woods bumming guns! I want a 22lr over 20g but I am not sure they exist around here. Almost picked up the new model 42 but I am holding out.
Excellent rifle!

Armored farmer said:

I do love combo guns. I only have one, savage 24 .22/..410.
Keeping an eye out for a .30/30/?12?

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Is that squirrel dead or just a good actor?

cdb1 said:

Is that squirrel dead or just a good actor?

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Maybe he's only mostly dead..?

Shanghai McCoy said:

Maybe he's only mostly dead..?

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That’s a true squirrel. Watch them drop from the trees and lay dead, but when you get up to get all 6 only 4 of them are still dead.

Congratulations, very nice combo. All these are what it should be looking like. Why does Savage make them upside down and ugly now? I was eying a Russian Baïkal .22LR/20ga, but they have dried up now. Who knows when Russian imports will be allowed by my government again? Not any time soon for sure. Chiappa also offers something similar in the double badger, but reviews are not so hot about them.

Had a buddy years ago had one of the .222 20 ga versions. I was crazy accurate.

The M24 .222/20 I had was disappointing. It strung shots badly with the rifle barrel, and zero wandered.

I have an early .22/410 (predates M24 designation) like Armed Farmer’s pic. In fact, it wears a butt cuff and sling swivels like his, but has plastic stocks, with a storage compartment in butt. Rifle barrel and shotgun barrel with slugs shoots astonishingly close to poi/POA at useful ranges (25yds). It stands in corner behind book case near front door, “just in case...”.

I have a couple of the .22/20ga ones, one is really only good as a .22 over scatter gun but the other is regulated almost perfect, so .22/slug or even .22/357, with an insert I made, isn’t too shabby.

I have one of the first .223/20 mag 24V and it has been passed along to my 16YO grandson from his dad.I have had Tenite stocked .22/410, .22mag/.410 24C Camper , .30-30/.20 , and a rare .357 max/20 gauge in my past. The 30-30 went to a Texas Missionary and the .357 Max to ab Austrailian missionary in the 80s. My youngest son still has the (repaired) OLD Tenite for rats ect and I have the Camper in it's bag in my camping trailer. They are fun and practical ultility guns that hold a surprising value !

Ironhand54 said:

A while ago I found a kinda rare gun at my favorite gun store. I put it on layaway and finally liberated it this week.

It is a Savage 24v series D
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Cal is 357 Mag over 20 gauge.
The optic is an early Aimpoint 2x

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Checkered Monte Carlo stock, case colored receiver and hammer mounted selector. Some range time is definitely in my future.

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Nice gun. You need to ship that to me ASAP for evaluation and testing!

I had a 22 mag over 20ga but sold it before I ever shot it. I was offered enough profit I couldn't say no. Then I found a 22/410 Baikal/Spartan imported by Remington. That was a nice gun with nice Russian Walnut and 4 choke tubes for the 410 barrel. I hadn't shot it in a while then decided to list it on GB where it didn't sell. Then a guy wrote and asked if I still wanted to sell it so I did. A few weeks later he sent me a picture of a fox he killed at 90 yards with the 22 barrel. I am glad he is getting some use out of it.

Enjoy your new gun.

That's about the ideal combo. Iron sights are good enough for 357 range and a shotgun barrel makes quick work of rabbit, grouse, or squirrel.
Of course sitting ones would easily be gotten with a 357.
I would say I'm jealous, but I'm just happy that someone gets to enjoy something that I think is cool.

I have the 12ga over .30-30 model. A bit heavy, but a good truck or boat gun.

Would love to find a .357mag over 20 gauge.