How accurate is a Savage 24?

Your range will definitely be limited...I don't know to maybe max 30m for head shots, but it really comes down to range/practice time matching your rifles point of aim to point of impact. In short, you have a lot of shooting ahead of you getting to know your rifle...not a bad way to spend your time I would think. Good luck!
 
browning said:
I get some headshots with mine. I dont recall the distances but do know they were out past the shotshells range.
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Thanks I was looking for someone thats used the Sav 24 for birds, I was told by the local gunshop these guns wouldn't put 5 shots in a group at any range. Just looing for an opinlon from someone thats shot one.
 
I have used a 24 .22/20ga for 45 years. I doubt if I have ever shot more than 3 or 4 chicken or partridge in the head. All body shots, with the .22 anyway.

Use ordinary .22, whether short, long, or long rifle, whatever suits you. Hollow points will blow them apart, a solid just leaves a little hole. I've shot Prairie Chicken at probably 50-75 yards, sitting in wheat stubble.

I don't recall ever actually shooting it to see what kind of groups it will do.

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These guns came in many different versions I would like to find a carbine 22/410 short barrel.
The new model 42 is coming soon, the guy at the gun store I talked to said he gets 5 or 6 people asking about them every week.
When they do come out they will be sold out soon after
 
I have 1 that will a camper carbine 18" barrel 22/20 with an extra 24" 22/410 barrel set that is also very accurate but my other 22/20 won't and it has the longer 24 " barrel . Then again I might have just not found what works best in it.
The worst part of getting accurate with a 24 is taking the time to get use to the two finger trigger pull that most of the 24's have .
They are a great little gun .
Jack
 
Well, I remember laying in ambush over some farm out buildings near Claybank, Saskatchewan with my Camper's Model 24C in 22 LR/20 gauge.
I had a box of 22 Short High Speed Remington brand.
With the iron sights at about 60 yards I clobbered alot of sitting pigeons from a supported prone firing position.
Now that said, are all Savage 24s this capable?

In a perfect world we get to test fire the firearms we wish to buy.
 
I had a loan of one for about a year. I loved the thing. I used open sites of course, so I rarely tried head shots on birds just to not go home empty handed. I have used it with trained beagle twins that rounded up and ran a ton of rabbits in NFLD , and I rarely missed one. They were 99% moving shots, and if the .22 didn't nail it, the .410 got every time. I am certainly gonna pick up one of the new ones now that this thread has got me hankering for one again.!!
 
Have shot target with quite a few in 22 LR. At 25 yards with the factory sights, most will shoot 1/2" or better and that is adequate for head shots. Solid points and body shots will likely get you a lot more game though.
 
mmatt said:
Sorry the video quality is so crappy. I used an old camcorder to shoot this as I had just recently

Before I sold my 24C, I made regular headshots on grouse. So long as you can find ammo that it likes, they can be amazingly accurate little guns.
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The video does nothing to aid the discussion of the 24s accuracy for head shots on grouse. 300 yards in a high wind with a scope doesn't match how they are used to hunt small game. It does prove that people who think 22RF can't be used effectively at 300 yards are completely wrong though. All in a kind of cool video. By the way, don't feel too bad about the camera you shot, thousands of people have shot chronographs before you and will in the future.:)
 
The early versions of the Savage 24 had the barrels soldered together. These are said to be very accurate and certainly more accurate than the latter ones with a gap between the barrels. The (barrel gap version) Savage 24c with its shorter barrel is also known to be a pretty accurate version.
so if you look for an early version and do some ammo testing you can "probably" get out to 50 yds.
 
I can not comment on the new ones. But I had on old timer that I bubbad a scope onto and it shot as well as any thing I had ,except some match guns.
Head shots at 30M would not have been a problem. Sadly " had " is the word I hear. I wished I still " HAD " it
 
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