Savage Model 24

[Pressman]

Yes, a lowly Savage, not as exotic as the Maynards ect posted below. I inherited this rifle from my shooting buddy Gary when cancer took him two years ago. He kept it for a special reason known only to him. I know nothing about the Model 24 and would like more information, stories and experiences with them. I don't know when the last time this one was fired, I never knew him to shoot it in the 30 + years I knew him.
It's a 22LR over 410. Is that a common arrangement? Condition is quite decent, the wood has some scratches in the finish but not showing any hard use, the metal is good with no rust.

Ken

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[Outpost75]

The classic farm utility, woods loafing and survival gun. The .22 barrel is quite accurate and a great squirrel getter. The full-choke .410 is typical of the type, the tight pattern is hard to hit with in wing shooting, but great for boys ground sluicing rabbits. Nice example of an early model like you have, in fine condition is collectible. These also have almost a cult following among the prepper community.

[SwissShooter]

Wonderful old gun. In top condition $600.00. The later 30-30 or 223 over 20ga is far more usable as a general purpose hunting gun.

[Ateam]

I traded for one this winter, 22/20ga, and am in love with it. As stated, the 22 is very accurate mine loves the fiocci 40gr subsonic HP. 20 gauge is mod choke and patterns to the rifle sights after I crammed a SOWW between the barrels as a way of poor mans regulation. Mine is a "deluxe" model from the 80's the best i can tell. Cant wait to hunt grouse and snowshoe hare with it in the upper peninsula this fall.

[Texas by God]

I always wanted one in 30-30/20ga. I did have one in the .222/20 and it was a tack driver with the factory irons and young eyes. My friend was calling turkeys one time and had borrowed it. A coyote came in looking for a drumstick and my friend forgot to select the rifle barrel for the shot. Didnt matter, the 3"#2 shot shell got the varmint at 50 yards. Good guns, a bit heavy - but you are carrying two guns......

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[quilbilly]

I have two. One is in 222/20 and the other 30-30/20. They both have been with me for more than 40 years (the 222/20 for over 50 years). You can't do much better than your 22lr/410 for a small game "meat gun". My neighbor bought the latest version 22wmr/410 offered by Savage (model 42 if memory serves) and he adores it for small game. He came over to the house not too long ago and I gave him a couple 00 buckshot 410's (5 pellets style) and at 20 yards all five pellets were on a paper dinner plate. He was seriously impressed.

[NyFirefighter357]

I have one as well, mine is 22mag over 20ga Mod 24D. I don't use it much because I don't get out hunting but it's a great what ever you kick up type of hunting gun.

[Walks]

Have one in 22LR/410. Except I think mine it a Stevens. Has Brown Plastic stock/forearm just like my Stevens 94 410 single shot.

Haven't fired either in a long time.

On Camping trips, when my little brother and I were young. My Dad would turn us loose with a box of .22's and 10-12 shot shells. Rabbits and Squirrels were in mortal danger.
Had fried rabbit & squirrel so much by the time I was 16yrs, I hated the smell of frying rabbit.

[FLINTNFIRE]

Had 3 at one time all 22 lr 2 had 410 and one was a 20 , all the 22 barrels were accurate , still have one , I gave it to my dad years ago to use , one I got in a trade and I knew who the original owner was that had traded it off when times were tight , lost money on that deal as I returned it to him . good utility guns , minor differences depending on model , perhaps as in the one I had it was a gun his dad or granddad had given him , special meaning is attached to some guns by family association.

[MT Gianni]

I have a 22 lr/20 gauge. The known problem is with the selector switch in the hammer. Parts have been know to come off disabling it which is worse if you are hunting with it and have to go look for them. I have had no such problems just heard stories. Mine came with a cheap chicom red dot sight. When the sight is set for 25 yards the shotgun is centered about 18" low. I have no complaints as it is a fun gun and a real jackrabbit gitter. I have a bug out bag of 550 rds 22 and 100 rds 20 gauge ready to go in an instant and a 22 revolver to accompany it if need ever comes.

[Mk42gunner]

If they are in anything resembling useable shape, they will go for stupid money at a farm auction around here. The last .22/.410 I remember watching sell went for $485.00, a few years ago.

I never had one of the combo guns, but in sometime around 1982 or 83 my buddy and I bought one of the .410 over unders for his dad to hunt rabbits with. Seemed like a very serviceable firearm.

Robert

[Outpost75]

If they are in anything resembling useable shape, they will go for stupid money at a farm auction around here. The last .22/.410 I remember watching sell went for $485.00, a few years ago.

I never had one of the combo guns, but in sometime around 1982 or 83 my buddy and I bought one of the .410 over unders for his dad to hunt rabbits with. Seemed like a very serviceable firearm.

Robert

Here in West Virginia any older .22/.410 in serviceable condition with the metal gone to patina and the stock looking like it was dragged behind a Farmall while you plowed rocks will bring $300.

[richhodg66]

I have one of the little camper ones, .22 LR over 20 gauge with a cylinder bore choke. Spaces in the stock for extra shells. I like it, but haven't really done much with it.

[Outpost75]

I have one of the little camper ones, .22 LR over 20 gauge with a cylinder bore choke. Spaces in the stock for extra shells. I like it, but haven't really done much with it.

Neighbor has the "Camper Special". Cylinder bore 20-ga is too open. If I had one of nthese I would get barrel threaded for choke tubes. The .22 LR barrel is accurate, but slugs from the 20-ga. barrel require using the triangular front sight base, not the front blade, to strike anywhere near point of aim...

[koger]

I have one of the last 24's made, and it is about my favorite. It is a parkerized, synthetic stock,.223/12g, with a 3 inch chamber and choke tubes! It shoots great and the .223 has a 1-9 twist which shoots everything from 45-65 grains which is as heavy as I have shot it. With the .223 shooting about 2" high at 100yds, the shotgun is dead on at 40 yds. The shotgun likes bigger shot, 4 and 5 shot better than smaller, and shoots a great pattern for turkeys at 40-45 yds. I believe with some slugs and a .22lr/.223 chamber adapter, this would be the ultimate survival gun.

[kaiser]

Pressman - your friend must have valued your friendship a lot to have left you that model 24. Yours being an older model with the barrel selector on the side has a "full" choke .410. One of the reasons the .22 barrel is so accurate is because the barrel is "wed" to the bottom barrel, rather than being separated as in later models, which is a more costly way of attaching double's.

I've owned at least a half dozen 24's, and still have a .22LR over a 20ga. Don't under estimate the effectiveness of the "little .410"; it will shoot just as far as the bigger bore's, but with less shot. Aimed with the iron sights it wears will collect just as much game as some of the fancier rigs (just don't extend the range too far!). "Aim small, shoot small".

[Pressman]

Thank You everyone for your response. I plan on keeping the 24 as is, no refinishing. It had a special meaning for Gary, and now that I know more about it's history that special meaning is stronger.
10-15 years from now my daughter will have something she relates to and can appreciate a new family heirloom.

[pietro]

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I've had about a dozen Model 24's over the years since the mid-60's, with just about every one of them the perfect "woods-loafing" long gun.

The configuration was first introduced by Savage/Stevens as the Stevens Model 22-410, offered with either walnut or Tenite (plastic) stocks.

After WWII, Savage designated it as the Model 24, in .22LR/.410, then also in .22lR/20ga

In 1959, Savage was the first firearms manufacturer to chamber for the then-new .22 Magnum, in their Model 24.

A few years later, the Model 24 lineup was expanded to include not only the choice between .22LR or .22Mag, but also between 20ga & .410, and between "standard" models and "Deluxe" versions with pickled receivers & Monte Carlo buttstocks - the Tenite stocks by now a distant memory.

Around 1968 (IIRC) Savage had so many repair requests for the sliding barrel selector on the side of the action, that they moved the selector to the top of the hammer.

Some versions had an opening lever of the side of the action ILO the top, and after about 1980 had a button in front of the trigger guard as the opening lever.

A few years later, Savage expanded the Model 24 line even more with variations like the Camper (short bbls w/cartridge storage buttstock) and centerfire rifle bbls.

All the Model 24 variations had their own Model 24 designations, like 24B-DL, 24P, 24S, 24MS, 24DL, 24MDL, 24FG, 2424F, 24V, 24D, 24C, 24CS, 24VS - until the Model 24 was eventually discontinued in 1990.


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[rockrat]

When a good friend of mine sold off many of his firearms, his 24 is one he kept. It is a 30-30/ 12ga and has taken many a deer. Out of a box of 150gr silvertips, he took 19 deer. I have shot it and it will keep them in a dime at his shooting ranges, about 75yds.

[Ateam]

The only thing I have done to mine is to replace the rear sight with one off a ruger 10/22, a perfect fit. The old elevator would slide around on the skinny 22 barrel and move the sights. It is fold-able which I thought I would fold down for wing shooting but I always forget.

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[Shawlerbrook]

As a kid, I borrowed a neighbor’s at our camp to protect against bait and fish stealing raccoons. Last year I bought my own in 22/410. They do have a cult like following.
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[Rattlesnake Charlie]

I picked up a camper model about two years ago, .22LR over 20 ga, black painted stock, the cleaning equipment in buttstock is still in original wrapping. I wanted one as a kid, but no bucks. Finally have mine about 50 years later. Will reside in my camper if I can ever get out to use it.

[CastingFool]

I had a chance to buy one, brand new, for $99 plus tax. It was a 22lr over 20 ga. I passed it up as 40 yrs ago, $99 for toys was not on the budget.

[cwlongshot]

Favorite of mine.

I listed after one in my youth. Looked and passed on a few till about 1989/90 When I found one worth of the price. I still have it and it’s a keeper. Well regulated and very fine shooter even with its tiny sites.
I have been looking for a mate in 22 mag /410 Only I would like one with a button in front of the trigger guard. Hens teeth but I look!!

Love my 30/30/20 and my 357 Max/ 20!!! Just bike the FP in the 357. Gonna change this weekend if part comes in.

223/20 was a let down. Probably sell that. The 222/20 is thinner lighter and shoots just as well!

Happened upon a hens tooth Camper. Very low SN. I need to get a factory letter on it. If it was a 22 mag it would be about perfect. If it wasn’t so low an I’d ream it!!

CW

[txbirdman]

“Cleaning equipment”? I’ve had 1 for 40 years and always thought those holes in the stock were for carrying extra ammo (20 ga/.22). Live and learn.

[cwlongshot]

“Cleaning equipment”? I’ve had 1 for 40 years and always thought those holes in the stock were for carrying extra ammo (20 ga/.22). Live and learn.
Hahah...

Wait ya mean they are NOT for ammo? ;). Guess I’m missing some parts and need to dump
That ammomoutta there!!

CW

[Drm50]

That’s the old model you got. The selector on right. That’s where they started as Stevens. 410/22 was the only choice. Later selector went to left side. Sometime in 70s they put the flip spur selector on the hammer. Guys that are looking for 24s to hunt with will usually live with the selector but are picky about the barrels. The old 24s had soldered barrels solid. The newer models went to open barrels with bands. Theses are not know for accuracy of rifle. The most sought after ones are 410 or 20g with a 22lr or 22mg. Good small game and utility guns. Nice ones are running at $600 and selling. The original 24Vs hold prices well too. The last guns Savage put out were absolute junk. All their stuff was and that’s when they folded up. Since their reopening I hoped they would bring back the 24. They brought out a worse piece of junk 43, I think.

[Yellowhouse]

The first rifle chambered for the 22 Magnum was the Marlin Levermatic. So far as the 24 at age 13 thought I'd die without a Savage 24. Numerous magazines were scanned for Savage 24 adds and my lust for one became tempered with age. I'm in my mid 70's now and a few years ago walked by a minty 50's-60's model at the Tulsa Gunshow. $400 but given the condition it was likely priced right and despite a flicker of that old lust I just kept walking. It sure would have been fun for my needs back when. Not so much now.

[cwlongshot]

You missed out YellowHorse. That’s a good price. I’m JUST behind ya in age and I LOVE line I also had a very similar linage listing for a 24 for many many years until finding and buying the nicest one I ever saw.

Such a joy. Only real complaint is the early ones had such tiny sites and no provisions for optics.

I was same thing with 22 magnum barrel over 410 now!!

CW

[Drm50]

I have a 24 Deluxe 22/20g 3” got in middle 60s. This area is one of the cult centers for 24s. The scoping of the 22 & 22mg has always been PIA. The groves are so shallow and close together most rings wouldn’t hold recoil of shotgun. In fact Savage said don’t fire shotgun with scope attached. There were some pretty neat bases made for a scope base to attach to. Also some pretty crude ones. There’s always a couple floating around that Bubba tried to stick weld aluminum rings.

[Rich/WIS]

Have had both 22LR/410 and 22LR/20. First was the 22/410 and had it for quite a few years and it accounted fora lot of rabbits, squirrels and woodchucks. rifle barrel was accurate but it was necessary to drift the rear sight almost off the barrel to get it to shoot POA windage wise. Finally sold it. Got the second one many years later and while it was a decent gun found out that 60+ year old eyes and open sights were not a match made in heaven, so let it go also. As a meat getter and a walking around rifle was hard to beat. At one time Redfield made a peep sight that clamped onto the scope rail, think Williams may still make one. With that arrangement zero the 22 for small game and come deer season re-zero as needed for slugs and go put venison in the freezer. A good hunter/shooter with a 22/20 could eat well with one gun regardless of what he was after.

[trapper9260]

The 24 is the first gun I bought after I got out of the navy back in 83 and still got it.Use to shoot pheasants with it on the run on the ground.That is with the 22 part. and use to use it on the trap line until I got a Ruger single six 22lr/22 mag that I still have both .