Thoughts on Chiappa quality and the double badger

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Hey all, I got my eyes set on a Chiappa double badger .22/20 and I wanted to know if anyone had any personal experience with the badger lineup of the Chiappa brand. The net is marred with good and bad reviews but I trust the members of this board a lot more. Any thoughts or ideas would be helpful, firsthand experiences would be ultimate.
 
I'm looking at the same model myself, looks like it would be compact for packing around. Accuracy would be my concern. Barrel regulation seems to be the issue with combination guns, not looking for a laser to 50 yards, but accuracy comparable to other open sight 22's would be nice. Hope someone chimes in.
 
I have one in .22/.410 and it's been great so far.

I use it as my grouse gun due to its light weight and portability- it folds right in half and fits in my bag. Accuracy has been just fine so far, but I haven't done any super serious accuracy testing with it yet. I do really enjoy the factory FO sights though.
 
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I have one in .22/.410 and it's been great so far.

I use it as my grouse gun due to its light weight and portability- it folds right in half and fits in my bag. Accuracy has been just fine so far, but I haven't done any super serious accuracy testing with it yet. I do really enjoy the factory FO sights though.
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Good to know. Thanks for that.
 
Well, I bit the bullet, so to speak. Bought the 22lr over 20ga. It's defiantly not as refined as a mid range break action shotgun, but seems solid enough and wood is good. Came new quite dirty and had to do a full clean of bores and mechanism. Also needed a few strokes with a file to the extractor mechanism to make the ramp it rides smooth. Once clean and oiled it felt quite good. Took it out for a shoot and it was pretty good, just a small elevation adj and it was spot on at 25 yards. Put a couple target loads thru it and they patterned evenly around the 22 hole, so I was quite impressed.
Comes with a removable Modified Rem-Choke. Going to pick up a Cylinder bore for slugs and a Full for small game.
Handles nice and fits me well, I'm 6.0' tall. Love the fiberoptic sight as mentioned above as well. Pretty happy for a $500 purchase.
 
I have the .22/410 and quite like it. Solid gun that is very light and compact. It's my fav grouse gun for this season... even prefer it over my bowning citori
 
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Mine (.22 over .410) came with the typical "leaning front sight" caused by the barrels not being perfectly parallel to one another. Was easily fixed with a quick twist of a pair of channel locks and a tack weld. It's by far my favourite upland gun
 
I use one in .410/.22 LR for my truck gun. The first one I bought had a jammed extractor and I had to return it. Second one I got was fine... but the rifle shot consistently high, even with max adjustment. Still a bit high even with tip of blade at 100 yards! But I rarely use the .22 barrel anyway. And I just noticed the back site has fallen off somewhere under the back seat, from being bounced around. But I have killed a few grouse on the wing with the .410 barrel; the choke is fairly open from what I can tell. Not a bad gun overall
 
The older Savage .22/.410 is the only combo gun I've had that they bothered to regulate the barrels. Death to grouse to 25-30 yards as it is severely over choked.The Russian OU combo guns are junk.Leary of the above as you get what you pay for in most cases.Hope you get a decent one.Harold
 
I had a mare's leg, and I currently have a little badger.

Quality on both was just fine, (the mare's leg was actually very nice)

And both functioned well.
 
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