Savage 22-410

[sandmander]

I'm new to this site,looks like a great firearms network.I have a Savage 22-410,app 45 years old,over and under,with the barrels soldered together.I love this old gun,but my old eyes can't handle the open sites.I want to scope it,but can't find mounts anywhere.any ideas or locations for mounts would be appreciated.thanks

 

[Geno]

Welcome to THR! Wow, the venerable Savage .22LR/.410! I learned to hunt with my aunt's. Wow, some great memories there.

Re: mounts, I have never seen any, but I'm not the world's greatest shotgun expert either.

I will say that I would never suggest that someone take an old classic like that and alter it in a means that cannot be full reversed and leave no sign of alteration.

Again, welcome to THR!

Doc2005

 

[mnrivrat]

I haven't seen them for a long time but someone used to make a clamp on mount for these - it would clamp to the upper barrel of course. I don't think they were a long lasting product as they had a tendancy to shift on the barrel .

I know of no ready source for a scope mount for your model. Perhaps going to a different rear sight simular to a ghost ring might help. That would also allow you to still pick up the sights for shooting the .410 shot.

PS: Welcome to THR

 

[publiuss]

My 24 has a dovetailed receiver. Take another look at yours to see if it's the same.

 

[evbutler462]

One of the guns of my long ago youth was a Savage 24 with a 22/410 configuration. Never could get the barrels to shoot together. I have had many of them in 22/20 ga config over the past 50 or so years. Never could find one that was regulated enough to be of much use to me. The barrels shot to other places than I wanted them to. If I set the sights for the 22, the shotgun barrel shot over toward the neighbor's farm. So I had to use Kentucky windage to hit anything with the shotgun barrel.

Great idea if it would work, to have a shotgun and a rifle in the same frame. I finally gave it up and sold them. These guns were cheaply made but rugged. If only that had taken the extra time and labor to regulate the POI of the barrels.

 

[timburn]

old eyes

Life is funny. I just came up from the basement with my 24B( I mean 5 minutes). I was testing how high it shot with open sights I can barley see, considering having a new front sight made. I put back on a cheap holigraphic sight I picked up at a show a while ago when I realized I can't really see the rear sight. I make do with some of my guns by centering as well as I can in the blur and concentrating on the target. I love peeps and ghost ring types.The problem I have with the holographic sight is the dot covers the target. On standard small bore target, exactly. I also put a leather cheek piece on it as your point of view is higher than with iron. I am trying to figure out what kind of sights will work for both rifle and shotgun. I bought this gun a couple of years ago living out the second childhood where I buy the guns I wanted as a kid. I am considering seeing if the Skinner low profile can be tapped on. This again would need a new front sight as it will still be high. I am probably getting carried away, but seems like it should be the ideal " go take a walk in the wood gun". Back to question after the rambling, there are fine grooves in the .22 barrel for scope on mine.