Tommy Gunn
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Savage Arms
Anyone here got one of these? How do they shoot? I have been thinking that the .30-30 rifle barrel over a 12 gauge shotgun barrel would be a good canoe gun.
I have a Sabatti 7x57R-12gauge, it works fine. 7x57R is a nice combination gun caliber. In combination guns rimmed cartridges is to prefer because it can be ejection problems with cartridges like 243Win, 30-06 etc.
Here are some good rimmed cartridges that can be found in combos:
5.6x50R is a .224cal that is faster than 223Remington.
5.6x52R aka ".22 Savage High power" popular for Roh deer in Europe.
6x62R Freres, near 243WbyMag in performance. Hard to find brass.
6.5x65R RWS, like a 6.5-06.
7x57R is a rimmed 7x57.
7x65R is like a 280Rem in performance.
30R Blaser, is between 30-06 and 300WinMag in performance.
7.62Russian, I only think Baikal makes combos in this round, Tikka has made a few..
The most accurate combos are the German Blaser, Krieghoff and Merkel. Tikka and CZ are robust and much gun for the money. Here in Sweden the Savage combos have a bad reputation. Heavy, inaccurate, poor quality, ugly and no balance.
Tikka 512 combos are manufactured in Italy but I think they have changed the name now (I don't know the new name).
/Markus