I've got 11 Savage 24s and have probably owned a dozen more since 1964, but of all that I've owned, the style that I liked the very least was the short 24C Camper's Companion.

That said, it is your firearm, so you should do to it whatever makes you happy.

Have you read Marshall Stanton's 06/10/2000 piece on the Savage 24 in the Tech Note section at www.beartoothbullets.com? Probably the best piece ever written about the Savage 24.

Don't you think that it is rather odd that hardly anyone cared about the Savage 24 until they'd been discontinued?