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And the 24CS in 22/20ga.

I find the 24V's to be liveable weight wise but they are all in 20 gauge, the 24F's in 12 gauge make the weight unbearable to me. I have one of the very few 24V's in 12 gauge, a transition gun the year before the 24F's came out, crossbolt safety, scroll work identical to the 24F on the receiver and hardwood furniture. It is unfired and will remain so as it is to damn heavy to carry around.


I bought a silver receiver 24 J new in 1965, was the first new gun that I ever owned. No sure they were available in 19 64. GW

Just curious how many out their in 22 Hornet? I Have one wo else? GW

been looking for the hornet for many years have missed two ( late on both ) would give ( no telling ) , have had all the others except the 357mag

Always wondered why my DL silver .22WRM/.410 is so much more accurate than earlier 24s I've had .. . even shoots .410 slugs into actual groups!

Tripped over a 357 Max a couple years ago. At first I was shooting 357 mag out of it cause the max is hard to find but have since found two boxes of factory Remington, great gun, put a Holosun red dot on it.

I recently picked up 24VS 20ga/357 max
having the receiver refinished nickel to match the barrel
now on the hunt for the pistol grip
will post pictures when i get it back from Fords custom guns

.357 Max.

I looked for some time before i found 357 MAX ammo and

was was quite shocked with the price

When I heard Savage was going to discontinue the model 24 I figured I’d place an order for a new one. Over the years I’ve had two others that were pickup utility guns so they were just tools and not collectible. One was the popular,22/410 the other 22mag/30-30. I decided to order 22 Hornet over 20 ga. Placed the order was told about three months. Then my gun shop got a notice that they weren’t chambering the Hornet any more. I was not happy and after three calls to Savage somebody told me they’d see what they could do. Four weeks later I got the rifle with of course a plastic stock and heavy. Put a dot scope on it and the Hornet shoots

Rick

Did savage ever chamber the 24 in 28 gauge? A 22 hornet over 28 gauge would be my dream Combo gun.

I have a 22H/20ga #D830xxx what ever year that would be, with an El Paso K 2.5 on it.

Fall, 1981.

When my granddad died in Nov 1968, I inherited his Savage 24, in 22 LR and 410 on the bottom.
Its old enough it has no serial number.

My grandfathers favorite two meals were squirrel or rabbit. He had many a meal of them in his life, courtesy of his Savage 24. The 22 barrel on top, has NO rifling for the first 6 inches or so in the barrel. One has to wonder how many 22 bullets, need to be shot thru a single shot, to wear out 6 inches of the rifling in the rifle?

Funny, I ended up with it, because most of my cousins didn't want it. They didn't want it, because our grandpa had other guns with more features. They wanted the feature filled firearms. I wanted the two rifles that was our granddad's favorite two... the 24 Savage and a very early Marlin 30/30. Didn't matter what they were. These were the two that had the most wear and tear on them.. but by far had killed the most game. He was from the days, when most of rural America eat more wild game than they did store bought meat. He was born in 1907 in Wytheville VA. Much of his life, where he lived, if hunting license were required, most people never bought them, and they took wild game pretty much year round. Besides most game animals, the other major source of meat was from slaughtering of hogs off the farm.

The Marlin was stolen out of my truck back in Minnesota, but I still have the 22/410 Savage 24.

"The 22 barrel on top, has NO rifling for the first 6 inches or so in the barrel."

Might be full of lead vs gone.

One of you Savage collectors help me out here: What is the "extra pistol grip" I see referenced in some of the posts on this thread?

I don't have a Savage 24, didn't realize there were so many variations out there. The first couple I had anything to do with as a kid were .22/.410's, one a friend's and one my grandmother's. My grandmother's had a Tenite stock, wood forend. She always kept it by the back door and at night, if she thought she heard "prowlers" outside, would let fly with a couple of loads of .410 out across the horse pasture. My brothers, my cousins and I worshipped that woman.

A certain variation of the .357 Max came with a pistol grip to replace the buttstock. We had one come thru the shop about 10 years ago.

No, the only shotgun gauges that the Savage 24s were chambered in were .410, 20, and 12.

Rifle barrels were chambered in 17 HMR, 22LR, 22MAG, 22 Hornet, 222, 223, 30-30, 357 MAG, and 357 MAX.

I still have them in 22MAG/410, 22LR/20, 22MAG/20, 222/20(x2), and 223/20.

The 22MAG/410 is one of my favorite woods loafing firearms, it shoots Brenneke slugs with surprising accuracy. I wouldn't shoot medium game with them, but coyotes and other animals of like sizes would be fair game.

I have seen a 24V in 222 rechambered to 225 WIN, but that looked like a potentially dangerous conversion to me. Bearrr264 talked about rechambering a 357 MAG to 356 WIN, a conversion that looked extremely dangerous to me.

There used to be a really good review of the Savsge 24s on the Tech Notes section of the Beartooth Bullets site written by a guy named Marshall Stanton. He claimed to favor the 30-30AI.

Will the pistol grip fit other models or only the one pictured?

Does it require a tax stamp?

I forgot I still have an old 22/410 in a sock in the corner of my gun room. I was thinking I only had my new version 22Hornet/ 20 gauge with the butt ugly plastic stock but today I found the other. Pretty scary when you can’t recall your rifles and handguns. Anyway this older 22/410 is one with a breakdown lever on the right side of the receiver panel similar to a Rem Hepburn rifle. Anybody know when these were made or anything about them. Typical creepy heavy light heavy trigger. As I recall reworking model 24 trigger assemblies is no cake walk

Rick