I ended up getting it for $250 OTD and I've already had someone offer me $425 for it. This pic shows some slight surface rust on the barrel and a ding in the finish on the forearm 20 minutes with a rag and some Scratch-X and it looks a lot better now. It is a 24J_DL with silver receiver, jumping fox engraved on one side, flushing grouse on the other, barrel selector on the hammer, and even had a little figure in the walnut on the stock.
When he said "$250 and i might be able to do better than that, let me go ask the boss", i opened the action, checked the bores (nice and bright) and the trunion (almost no wear marks) and said "either way, I'll take it" 22LR/.410 on the rack behind the counter at a local gun shop so I asked to see it, fully expecting the price to be $375-$425. My son and I were both off work Friday and he had Christmas $$ burning hole a in his pocket so we decided to cruise the local pawnshops and gun shops for any deals. I have been wanting one of these for a long time. I'm also a self-confessed Savage/Stephens fanboy, so I tend to overpay a little for some of this stuff. But if you can't verify the regulation is decent, I'd assume it's bad (most are after banging around in someone's truck for 50 years) and look to pay $400 +/- $100 for a decent shooter without all the collector value of the tenite ones that haven't fallen apart.ĭisclaimer: I probably don't know what I am talking about, so all this is just my uneducated opinion. Any more than that and I'd be looking into a Baikal or maybe even a Valmet Shooting System instead. 410 is just not very versatile, imo, and the 12ga only came in the 24F model afaik, which is stupidly heavy, too much to hump around the woods). For me, I'd pay up to maybe $650, maybe $800 if it looked mint too, for one with excellent regulation and shiny bores, with a 20ga on the bottom (the. I think a "fair" price is whatever you are willing to pay. I think I still got the better end of that deal. 22 POI and 5/8oz slugs 1" low, so I paid him the $400 printed on the price tag and took it home. Then he let me fire a test group and the regulation was perfect at 25yd, shot centered over. The rifle appeared only fair at first, with a little bit of surface rust here and there and some dinged up furniture, and had different than factory sights on it, so I had him talked down to $350.
Savage model 24 22 over 410 full#
22LR over 20ga Full Choke, 24" bbls soldered the whole length. I recently paid $400 even for a 24S-C in. You can't wedge the fully soldered barrels to correct it, so if you get a bad one you are out of luck. If you can, pattern the gun before you buy and make sure the regulation is relatively decent. That, imo, would be a far more versatile 24, and the shotgun shells wouldn't be so darn expensive. 22 over 20ga with a proper wooden stock, that still has the fully soldered barrels. If you keep looking, there was a few years in the 60s where they made a. The older ones with the barrels soldered the whole length are typically regulated better than the newer ones with the separate barrels, too. They don't string as bad with repeated firing. The solid soldered barrels are a plus, if the regulation is good. If you are looking for a shooter for real use, I'd pass. It will appreciate faster than the US dollar will inflate. If you are looking for a safe-queen as an investment that will never get shot, go for it. IMO, you've got a collector rifle there, not a shooter.