Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Combination Guns and Drillings Why is the Savage 24 upside down?

The design just couldn't stand the stress I guess.

I doubt it was chamber thickness though. I've seen some thin chamber walls take a lot of pressure.
I recall an experiment Gen Julian Hatcher did on this by turning away metal over a springfield chamber. Kept taking some metal off and shooting the rifle until it was down to @ 1/16" thick IIRC, and it still held with std loads. They put some proof loads in and went up a couple of those before it finally let go. Seems it was 75K PSI or something like that. He wrote about it in "Hatcher's Notebook".

Greg

My uncle brought back #888 from the 2nd WW - plastic stock -. 22/410. I gave it to Tanner Ilkin, son of Tunch Ilkin - offensive tackle for the Pittsburgh Steeler. My second was a .22 mag/20 gauge then a.222/20 gauge then a ,30-30 over 12 gauge. They were, and are, wonderful woods guns. With my solid hand loads and a few Brenneke slugs I would feel safe hunting anywhere in the US - it is always handy - accurate - and cheap to shoot - a BIG bonus today.

Terry

Somebody once suggested rechambering a 24V from 357Mag to 356Win. That wouldn't be a conversion that I'd want anything to do with.

I'd strongly suggest the guy's wife take out a large life insurance policy.. without a suicide clause. Might wind up a Darwin Award candidate

My guess would be that the 24 evolved from an existing single shot shotgun and it was easier and cheaper to add a small diameter rifle barrel on top than completely redesign the gun to put the small barrel on the bottom.

I think that may be the answer. Would like to know which single shot receiver was the basis for this, but probably never will.

So you can hit a Cottonmouth just behind the ear at 12 paces and not make a fool of yourself by not getting the hold over for sight height right.

Maybe not a beauty queen, but my BRNO 7x57R/12ga cost me under $1K with mounts & loading kit and shoots well. I like it.

SC, she looks fine to me. I don't mind a sturdy gal with well rounded curves. Especially if she does good work.

I can't make out what kind of scope it is, can you tell us. I like small scopes.

Thanks for posting the pic

Geno

That is a Leupold 2.5x fixed. Nice little scope. I currently have a Bushnell Scopechief 1.5-4.5 on it as I wanted some more magnification for working up a load.

Thank you sir, the info is much appreciated.

Geno