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Remington rifle shotgun combo3/31/2024 ![]() But there was a hitch in the switch, and sometimes the wrong barrel went off. Pushing the barrel-switching button up allowed the rifle barrel to fire, and pushing it down switched to the shotgun barrel. The bottom fringe of the full-choke pattern landed about where the gun pointed, but I got used to it. The 24MDL weighed less than 7 pounds and balanced pretty well, but did have a couple of faults. By the time I gave the Savage away several years later to a 13-year-old friend, it had taken game and varmints from doves and squirrels to jackrabbits and sage grouse. ![]() (The DL stood for “deluxe,” meaning a checkered walnut stock and simple engravings of a fox and a grouse on the receiver.) The price was around $70, much cheaper than buying both a 20-gauge shotgun and. I’ve been hunting with combination guns off-and-on since 1968, when as a teenage ranch hand I entered a hardware store in Montana looking for an all-around shotgun and came out with a brand-new Savage Model 24MDL, an over/under with a 3-inch, 20-gauge barrel on the bottom and a. ![]() When somebody does, objections include “too clunky” or “expensive,” but generalizations rarely land anywhere near the truth. Yet highly opinionated hunters almost never suggest a combination gun, with both rifle and shotgun barrels, when they’re discussing the most versatile all-around hunting arms. The answers usually revolve around cartridges and loads, but beyond are endless arguments about bolt actions, pumps, autoloaders or double barrels. ![]()
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