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Offline cwlongshot

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Savage 24
« on: March 11, 2007, 05:25:19 PM »
I am in the market for one of these. I have seen them on and off for years.
Even had a couple opertunities to buy one at good prices!! Wish I had, as now I dont see too many, and the ones I do are OVER PRICED!!!

This is the 22/410  O/U I am speaking of....

 Who here has one and what do you think of it??

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Savage 24 .22/410!
« Reply #1 on: March 12, 2007, 01:52:11 AM »
I have one - the same one I purchased over 40 years ago - walnut stock with the side selector - I love it!  It makes a great walkabout gun....it will be worth your search for sure.
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Re: Savage 24
« Reply #2 on: March 12, 2007, 04:26:05 AM »
Ive seen a few on gunsamerica.com

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Re: Savage 24
« Reply #3 on: March 12, 2007, 04:54:28 AM »
My daughter has one, a gift I gave to her when she was much younger, It still sits in my gun locker though, it is a .22 LR over a 20 gauge. A buddy in Maine just recently (within a month or so) bought one (24F) from Gunbroker and after 2 shots with the shotgun barrel the lug sheared off the barrel!!! It was a .223 over a 12 gauge with screw in choke tubes, his ultimate coyote gun, and it would have been if it had stayed together. The seller, "Sportsmans Supply" from Butler PA were great and said they would refund his money. I do not know for sure how it turned out but will ask the next time I speak to him. Those Savage 24's are a great idea and are wonderful when they work. My buddy in Maine would like to get another if he could find one with screw in choke tubes in .223 over 12 gauge, or perhaps a Remington Spartan in 12 gauge/.223 except for the higher price and that real short scope rail is problematic also, I know it can be worked around but why in the world build it like that in the first place?....<><.... :) 
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Re: Savage 24
« Reply #4 on: March 12, 2007, 05:43:09 AM »
I have one that is over 50 years old and is the first gun I ever owned.  It is .22 over 410 and has had thousand and thousands of .22 put through it.  Not too many 410s over the years as they were too expensive for me as a kid to buy.  The iron sights fell off it and I shot it instinctively for years.  This gun was before they had scope groves for it and I had a gunsmith weld one on top of the .22 barrel.  Today that guns has a red dot scope on it and still is my favorite squirrel gun.  Yes, I agree with you that today’s model seem overpriced as my gun cost less that $50 dollars new.  I would like a new one today with a .22 over a 20g but will not pay the price they want.
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Re: Savage 24
« Reply #5 on: March 17, 2007, 03:16:21 AM »
Well,
 I found one!!  LOOKS mighty nice...only seen pics so far.
 I am waiting for its owner to get back from being away, to contact me so I can get him my FFL and payment.

 Looks to be Walnut. Like Bufords. Is it like yours Buford?

 Here is some pics the guy selling it, sent to me.










Its one of the cleanest, if not THE cleanest one I have ever seen.

CW
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Re: Savage 24
« Reply #6 on: March 17, 2007, 09:48:45 AM »
Congratulations, that looks great, and if you can get it reasonable snap it up, or give me the guys info and I will!!! ;D ;D ;D
What gauge and caliber is it? And the wood does look like walnut, I say go for it....<><... ;)
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Re: Savage 24
« Reply #7 on: March 20, 2007, 12:41:56 AM »
FFL and MO sent out Yesterday!!!

Should have it in a week or so, cannot wait to get it to the range!!!

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Re: Savage 24
« Reply #8 on: March 20, 2007, 05:49:06 PM »
WTG cwlongshot.

Should have some fun with that one.

I've been looking at a really nice Model 99 that just sits on the rack at the local dealer.

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Re: Savage 24
« Reply #9 on: March 27, 2007, 11:15:28 AM »
I had one that was a 24J - DL.  22 Magnum over 20 gauge that I just sold a couple of weeks ago for $250

Me not knowing that they didn't make them anymore and that there were people that collected them.

It ended up that a guy drove 100 miles one way to my house and bought it on the spot.

Only to have a second person call me 10 minutes later wanting to know if I still had the gun.

4 other people have called since then and I am sorry that I sold it so cheap.

I could have easily gotten $350 out of it.

About 3 years ago I saw a new one on the rack for $250 and figured that it was all it was worth.

I don't think that you would have had any problems with it blowing apart only being a 20 ga / 22 mag.
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Re: Savage 24
« Reply #10 on: March 27, 2007, 11:46:12 AM »
Quote from: The Gamemaster on March 27, 2007, 11:15:28 AM
I had one that was a 24J - DL.  22 Magnum over 20 gauge that I just sold a couple of weeks ago for $250

Me not knowing that they didn't make them anymore and that there were people that collected them.

It ended up that a guy drove 100 miles one way to my house and bought it on the spot.

Only to have a second person call me 10 minutes later wanting to know if I still had the gun.

4 other people have called since then and I am sorry that I sold it so cheap.

I could have easily gotten $350 out of it.

About 3 years ago I saw a new one on the rack for $250 and figured that it was all it was worth.

I don't think that you would have had any problems with it blowing apart only being a 20 ga / 22 mag.

Yep, you let it go way to cheaply, especially if it was pristine. I have 2 24J-DL's both 1967 vintage, both pristine, I've been offered $450 and turned it down.

Have one of the very rare Savage 24V's in .357 MAXIMUM(NOT Magnum) over 20, the last one I saw sell on Gunbroker went for $1200.

Don't pay any attention to blue book value if you have a pristine one you plan to sell. They ain't making em anymore, and they're shooting up in value(if they're pristine). Have about 2 dozen of them in every caliber they made except foe .22 Hornet, that one still eludes me, LOL, but one day !!!!!

Bought a 30-30 over 20 2 years ago, about 1980 vintage, unfired, NIB, I paid $250 for it, and the guy thought he was pulling the wool over my eyes, I smiled all the way home.
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Re: Savage 24
« Reply #11 on: June 25, 2007, 03:55:36 PM »
Mine is a 24-H  22 Mag over .410. I have never seen another one with that combo... are they rare or do I just not get out enough?

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Re: Savage 24
« Reply #12 on: July 02, 2007, 04:55:37 AM »
Sorry for the delay....:(

 I got the gun and it is as nice as the pics!! I  haven't shot the 22 much but shot the heck out of the 410 recently on clays. i was amazed how well it fit me as I was hitting everything thrown! I shot the 22 a couple times at full clays on the ground after the foray of shotgun blasts. I hit what I shot at. I guess the last owner say the sites as I do.
Looking forward to next Bunnie season!!!!!

Rickk,
 I have seen a bunch of 22mag/20ga. My buddie has the same as you, 22M / 410. 

 For us here in CT we can only use 22LR or smaller on state land. SO although I prefer the mag, I cannot use it on state land.

This is my Bunnie gun and we hunt 60% on state land. We also hunt late in the season after most of the pressure is long gone. the bunnies are there as most people here hunt pheasants.

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Re: Savage 24
« Reply #13 on: September 25, 2007, 02:37:33 AM »
I'm looking at a trade on a 24 in .357 mag./20 ga. that I haven't seen yet, but know the guy and have confidence in him.  I'll have $325 in.  It looks like a good deal since at the last big gun show the price on any 24's were $400 and over.  I already have a 24C and one in .30-30/12 ga. with interchangable chokes.  That one shoots slugs about 4" to the right at 50 yd. when the .30-30 barrel is on at 100 yd.  I have a Leupold m-8 2x intermediate eye relief scope on it.
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Re: Savage 24
« Reply #14 on: October 17, 2007, 01:18:14 AM »
My father bought me a new one in .22/.410 with a wood stock and plastic forearm in about 1951.  The .22 was very accurate and I shot many squirrels and rabbits with one barrel or the other before trading in on a new Ithaca Featherlight 20 Gauge that is still used on occasion.  That was in 1956 when I was 14 years old.  Often think about that gun and wished it was in my gun safe.

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Savage 24
« Reply #15 on: October 17, 2007, 02:22:13 PM »
cwlongshot, yep that is just like mine - the best of the best in my book.
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Re: Savage 24
« Reply #16 on: December 01, 2007, 05:37:51 AM »
I got a Savage 24 for my 15th. birthday in 1962. It is the side selector .22WMR and .410. A better shooting .22 I have never seen. I generally have used Winchester hollow points in it. Many a critter has fallen to this, and the rifle is pristine yet. Anyone care to take a stab at what it might be worth out there?  I don't plan to sell it. The thing locks up tight as when it was new. We used to shoot grouse out of elderberry bushes on the Middle Fork of the Clearwater when I was in high school. I usually shot their heads off with the .22.

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Re: Savage 24
« Reply #17 on: December 08, 2007, 05:32:56 AM »
Jack, This year I've seen Savage & Stevens 24's with gun show & gun shop price tags on them from $300 to $450, including the cheapo side-lever S's.

I also know that a wife just bought a "nice" Savage 24D for her husband's Christmas present, in .22lr/.410 for $200 at a gun shop, so they're out there.

My first was a Savage 24 - MDL, which was a Deluxe (Monte Carlo walnut stock/pickled receiver) .22 Mag/20ga, I bought used in the late 60's, IIRC.
I don't care to know what it's worth now (it's pristine), since it's worth more to me in memories than money can buy.
That said, in full recognition that one of my heirs will most probably toss it for the price of a decent dinner/night out, after I'm gone.
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Re: Savage 24
« Reply #18 on: December 08, 2007, 03:48:39 PM »
That comment about your relatives trading the gun off for a steak dinner kind of stings. I guess that's why I am a little reluctant to leave any of my stuff to the relatives. I don't think I have anyone, other than my nephew, who knows what this stuff is worth. His father-in-law is in charge of the firearms department out Sportsman's Warehouse in Washington, and he knows his stuff, so that would be the only pick in the family right now. I would hate to have someone sell the real genuine 1955 vintage model 70 Winchester for a few shekels.

One guy at the Potlatch gun show said he had seen a lot of model 24s over the years and they were all different.
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Re: Savage 24
« Reply #19 on: December 10, 2007, 05:47:48 AM »
Sad, but true.

As an outdoorsman,I try to fight off the apathy in my family members, but (alas) only a few have chosen the path we all here have.

Oh, well........They're all adults, and are free to choose their own kharma.
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