Anybody ever?

[Mike A.]

Done any wingshooting with their Savage/Valmet 2400? 

I wonder how feasible it is to even load the 12 guage barrel for upland game, instead of just keeping slugs in it for big game backup, or heavy shot for called turkeys/coyotes.

I shoot a Savage/Valmet 333 and a Valmet "Lion" O/U 12 a lot for upland, so I'm very familiar with the Valmet action, and confident of the shotgun barrels on those. 

But the dynamics of the 2400 are very different; different length and weight of barrels and different stock shape.  And the choke on the barrel is much tighter than on my other upland guns, although I can fix that with spreader loads easily enough.

Anybody tried it on flying game?  What game?  Clays?  What loads?  What success?

[dougk]

Hey Mike,

I do use the shotgun barrel on my combo  for turkey, crow, and other birds.  For these size birds I used 3 inch BB or 4 shot.

When I go for dove I have switched to drillings. 

Given drillings and combos are hunting guns I would tend not to use them for any competition shooting.

Doug

[Mike A.]

Agreed, Doug--drillings  with two shotgun barrels above a rifle barrel tend to be balanced like a double shotgun should be for wing shooting.  I suspect the ones that are the other way around (double rifle over shotgun barrel) are rare partly because they aren't good for wingshooting.

I'll just have to experiment with the 2400 on a skeet range with spreader loads to see if I can hit anything, without the scope, and with the scope switched to 1X. My only other experiment along these lines is with my Savage 24, which has a Weaver V3 also.  A full choke .410 is a hard gun to hit with, scope or no scope, tho.

May have to stick to "terrestrial" targets like coyotes and turkeys and cottontails in the end,  but I'll try it out on clays anyway, and let you know what happens.  Not until first week of Jan, the first chance for me to get away to shoot.