#10MinuteTalk - Mark’s Small Game Special – The Savage Model 24 .22 Over 410

Make this a series like cartridge talks, bring on historically significant firearms or firearms from your personal collections that have a storied past, would love to see more

I’m a young man of 23 years old. My dad has one of these in 22/20gauge and it was the first gun I ever shot. I have memories as a very little boy watching him shoot it and I would collect the brass because it was “my golden treasure”. Now I have a young boy myself and hope to take the same gun and create similar memories with him!

As a tribute to the thousands of its brethren forgotten and rusting away in damp basement closets, this great gun has earned the right to be pampered by the capable hands of Doug Turnbull. Let it rise again as a bright and ornate symbol for all grouse guns downtrodden and ill-treated, so that their loyal service and sacrifice may be remembered. Who's with me???🙌

When I was 10 years old in 1965 my mother went to the S & H Green Stamp Store and turned in 30 books of stamps to get me this 22/410 for my 10th birthday. A few months later she got another one for my younger brother. The wood stock with the blued variegated housing was a beauty to my eyes at the age of 10 and still is even with all its scratches and dings. My younger brother and I would walk the dirty country roads shooting sparrows and maybe some other stuff to boot with the 22. We was always glad to see the snow starting to fall making a fresh white pallet on the ground so that we may chase up a rabbit or two to shoot with the 410. If we missed we could always track the rabbit down by following the rabbits fresh footprints in the new pallet of white snow and or one of us would continue with the chase while the other would hunker down where we initially shot the first round and wait for the rabbit to circle back around the field to come right back to the same place we initially shot at it. The rabbit almost always circle back. Those where some memorable days in my brother and I's young lives.

I have one, used to be owned by an aircraft company as a survival plane gun up here in the Yukon, it is in really good shape especially the colour case hardened finish, mine is 22wmr over 20 gauge, the model is a 24 series P! It is a piece of Yukon airline history!!

This was the gun I learned to shoot with, a button select savage model 24 that was my grandpa's. When I was 14 or 16, I found one just like it with the button selector on the side at a gun show, but couldn't purchase. A few months later my Dad surprised me with it for Christmas! Still probably my favorite gun in the safe.

My first gun was a Savage 24D (.22lr/20ga) that was my dad's as a kid. Learned to shoot it in the same field he did. I have my first kid (a boy) due in July, and you better believe we're going to that field as soon as he's ready.

I have always loved my 22/410 my big brother gave me in the 80's. It feels even more special now after your video. I would love to see one restored, but no one is touching mine!!!

I own a few combo guns now. My 1st one was a savage model 24 in 22wmr/20ga. My grandfather had a savage model 24 in 243/20ga. It was his all around field gun so he could hunt deer and quail in one go with one gun. My newest combo is a chiappa 22lr/20ga as a truck gun for those quail/rabbit days here in California. Thank you for covering this.

The restoration is the way to go. I am an old mechanic and have turned some old heaps of rusted iron into sweet street rods. You cant soup up your piece, but you can bring back its glory.

I've got a 22wmr over 20ga model. With a running fox stamped on one side of the receiver and a flushing grouse on the other side. My wife's grandfather had used it for slug hunting here in Minnesota. I had a gunsmith widen the choke to improved cylinder just in case anyone was tempted to do that again. Also had the side selector button repaired. It's a very fun gun. I need to do some more clay shooting with it to build up confidence to take it into the grouse woods more often.

I inherited one from my Dad as he did from Grampa, and it’s a 24v in 30 30 over 20 ga. 3 inch magnum too. Love it. Wouldn’t trade it for nothing. I have two uncles who have them in 222 over 20 also. Handy up here in Canada.

My grandfather in Texas had one when I was growing up, and he would let me take it with he and I when he opened the garbage dump on Saturday mornings when we would go down there each summer. Needless to say, I spent hours in the woods with that amazing shotgun! I wish I knew what happened to it after he passed, because I would proudly have it displayed in my house.

I actually have 3 of them passed from my grandfather and mother. One in .22 LR/.410, .22 mag/.410, and .22 LR/20 ga!

This was a very nostalgic episode. My childhood best friend had one of these, a 22/410 with the button selector on the side. I used that gun to pass the shooting proficiency portion of my hunters safety course in 4th grade. I loved that gun though at the time I realize I didn’t fully appreciate it. Thanks for the stroll down memory lane.

I’ve had one since I was an early teen . It was in my family and I’m here to say it’s so so fun to carry in the woods.

This is the first firearm I ever shot. It was, still is my dads gun and my brother is now teaching my nephew to shoot with it. Good stuff. Glad to see it on the channel

I have one 22 mag over410 bought from elderly man in northern minn. I was 19 at that time and am 76 now. Gun is in mint condition . Thanks for video, Tim

I had one of these in 22LR and 20ga as my first gun. In my opinion it’s possible the best youth beginners gun out there. One of the worse gun trades I ever made was trading it to a Rossi but the Rossi had 3 rifle barrels and .410 and 20ga shot gun barrels which I shot a ton and enjoyed as a kid but oh how I miss the old 22-20 now days. Thank for bring up some old memories mark and Ryan. It’s much appreciated.

My dad gave me one in the 90's. I don't shoot it much anymore, but it will always be one of my favorites.