I was looking at my Savage 2400 today, and thought maybe i'd show you a couple pictures of it here.
Before Valmet made there model 412 combi's they made these combi's and Savage brought them in as "2400's". When you see both guns side by side, you can see thay are very similar. The 412 action is slightly bigger and also stronger!
The only two cal's i've seen 2400's in, are 12-.308 Win., and 12-.222 Rem. like this one. I bought mine in the 70's and i have shot a truck load of small game with it!!!
The top of the rib is shaped with the bases "machined into it" to accept Sako rings, and it's a very solid system!!! (I have "expermental" 412 bbl. sets that accept these same Sako rings)
The rear sight can be ajusted for windage only, and the rifle bbl. can be ajusted for windage and elevation!!! This system to ajust the rifle bbl. works perfectly, and was carried over to the 412's.
The single trigger is selective, and the tang safety is "auto" going on when you open the action. I never liked single trigggers or auto safeties!! On my 412's i've always installed double triggers and deactivated the auto safety!!!
My 2400 is an absolute tack driver!!! I've hand loaded hundreds and hundreds of 22 Win. mag. "velocity" loads for small game use. It's not picky at all and has shot well with many different loads includeing the factory loads i've fired.
When handloading i made (swaged) most of the bullets myself useing "spent 22lr cases" for the jackets!! I liked to turn the jacket up side down so the finished bullet was a FMJ, that way it didn't ruin too much meat on the small animials i was shooting.
One time many years ago i sold this gun and then regretted it later!! I was lucky that when the friend i sold it to was leaveing Alaska, he sold it back to me!!!
Anyway, i pretty much quit shooting this combi when Valmet started bringing there 412's into the U.S.!! They have all the things i thought was missing on the 2400's.
Hope you like the pictures!!
Drilling Man
