Combo shooters?

[Hoshua1]

I was at a great gun shop the other day and saw some very neat antique shotguns that that had two differently chambered barrels side-by-side. I looked into it further online and discovered a number of "combo" firearms. I couldn't help but be a bit delighted at the .22/.410 combos. Seemed like a pretty awsome small game solution. Could you scope it for the .22? The .410 is so mild. I wounder if you could fire a scoped shotgun round accurately. Since the barrels are in diferent possitions the shotgun wouldn't be zeroed. I can't believe I just said that. Anyway, Just a whimsy. I'm fond of the combo idea though. I like the H&R combos. You could have a scoped rifle barrel and a standard shotgun barrel. Just swap and shoot. Slower though. I like having both at your finger tips.

 

[zippo8]

I like the idea of a combination rifle/shotgun because of the versatility. I own a couple of drillings (double barrel shotgun on top, single rifle barrel below) and hunt with them every chance I get. Both have a rear sight that flips up when you switch to the rifle barrel and goes down when switched to the shotgun. Normal front bead. One is scoped for the rifle barrel. One thing though, if several shots are taken, the rifle's point of impact can change as the barrels heat up. Not sure if this occurs with the side by side combo though.

A .410/.22 combo sounds great for small game. What caliber/gauge were the others?

 

[Hoshua1]

Some of the old ones on the wall were not discussed bit without any chokes that I could see a few looked pretty heavy duty. I found a couple that ranged from .223/.410 up to .300 and 12 or 20 guage. You shoot the shotgun through the scope? No. Just the rifle. How do you sight the shotgun with a rifle scope in the way?

 

[zippo8]

I just use the bead for the shotgun. The scope uses claw mounts which easily detach. Ideally, you could have a see through mount.

 

[Bob R]

I have an older Savage combo in 30-30/20gauge. I like to call it my turkey gun. I use the iron sights, don't figure on using it much past 100 yds. It makes a good multi-game gun, except it is single shot and weighs a ton.

bob

 

[Darth Ruger]

We used to carry a couple of Rossi youth-sized matched pairs. It's a single-shot break-action, only takes a few seconds to change barrels. The ones we had were a .22/.410 and a .22/20 gauge. The rimfire barrel had open sights and is also drilled and tapped for a scope. It came with a padded nylon case that both barrels and the receiver fit into when disassembled, easy to carry in the field. I never shot one, but it looked like it might make a handy small game package for a kid. They were about $130. They're also available in adult size and in other gauges and centerfire calibers. Extra barrels can also be purchased separately.
Rossi Matched Pair

 

[Hoshua1]

The over-under style barrels confuses me when I imagine sighting the scope. Wouldn't one of the barrels be an inch off from the other. I guess you could even figure it out if you had a mil dot recticle. Maybe the one barrel is a dot low? Seems pretty awsome though.

 

[Onmilo]

I let my Springfield M6 survival gun go on a gun trade but while I was shooting it I had a simple electronic dot sight mounted.

It worked great with either barrel but I had to do a little 'kentucky regulating' to ensure point of aim-point of impact with both barrels.

Once you figure out where to put the dot for each barrel, the rest is simple and natural.

Spartan/Remington/Baikal, whatever, is supposed to again be importing some combination guns in centerfire and rimfire calibers.
Haven't seen any yet but I did sell quite a few of the European American Armory/Baikal combination guns when they were available.
These guns are really quite good and one of the best buys on the market.
They feature a jackscrew arrangement at the muzzles that allow the shooter to regulate both barrels to one set of sight settings and this will work to a maximum range of about 75 meters.