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While haunting gunshops on both sides of the Pennsylvania border with western New York over Chrismas, I ran into a very simple combination gun in .22 long rifle over a .410 shotgun. Made by Stevens (Model 22/410), it was surprisingly nicely shaped and finished, even the fake wood stock (plastic) didn't look hideous. Did anyone ever make a better version of this unit, in perhaps more useful calibers? .223 over 20-gauge comes to mind.
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Thank you for that! I hate to say this, but with the exception of some of the Model 24s, most of these guns make that little Stevens look allright, plastic stock and all.
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All you ever wanted to know about the 24V. http://www.savage24.com/Pete
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I shoot a couple of combo guns for most of my predator hunting, a Bernardelli 2000 5.6x50mm Mag/12ga with Leupold VX-II 1x4x20mm and a Marrochi/American Arms 222 Rem/12ga Leupold VX-1 Shotgun scope. I started with a Savage 24 223/20ga and it's ergonomics leaves a lot to be desired. I need to use a scope and if you can mount it low enough to get a good cheek weld it is too low to cock the hammer or use the selector switch. A good cheek weld has your eye perfectly aligned with the scope as soon as it hits your shoulder making moving shots and shots at those coyotes that pop out of the sage at 20 feet a lot easier. The two I'm using now have standard safeties so the scope can be mounted low and double triggers for instant rifle or shotgun selection. Bernardelli getting the job done at the Mexican border.  Again just south of the Canadian border.  My old 24 with selector on the hammer. 
Last edited by oskar; 01/06/14 09:33 PM.
After the first shot the rest are just noise.
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Not hard to imagine a situation where having the instant choice of either a shotgun or a rifle would be useful. As a kid growing up in Pennsylvania, the only folks I knew that used them were chasing turkeys. Now I can see some other applications if the caibers/bores are fine-tuned a bit. Interesting to also see that prices range all over the place for a fairly simple mechanism, but I shouldn't be surprised.
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Lloyd, here's what cape-guns are good for:  Mine is a Sauer hammer-gun in .43 Mauser x 12ga. The rifle barrel is damascus and the shotgun barrel is steel...Geo
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That is very cool, George. Talk about a mixed bag!
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I purchased a Savage 24 around 1980?, in .22/20ga, the sight was off buy a mile with no windage dovetail so its sat in a box for the last 30 some years.
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