This makes the Model 42 an ideal teaching tool for shooting, and for basic function issues. And if anything were to go wrong, the gun would be easy to fix – even in the field. It would be a solid gun for a young shooter who needs the restrictions of a single shot weapon for learning purposes. The rugged design and basic set-up on the gun makes it both useful and fun. But the Model 42 is taking durability to the next level.Ī straight shooting Model 42 will appeal to several different camps of shooters. This article looks at five different combo guns. Savage isn’t the only company who thinks this is (or was?) a good idea. 22 rifles, and this one is just barely passable. In the end, I was hitting it from 40 yards, though it had stopped scooting across the grass by then. Each shot drove the can farther into the field. I took ten successive shots and never missed. I was shooting OOO buckshot, and had no problem hitting the can from 25 yards. I was plinking with the gun in the field out behind my house and I’d set a tin can on a fence post. 410 barrel, even with these sights, is amazing. The back end of the front sight is so wide that it covers up a good bit of the target.īut now I’m going to contradict myself. I have no doubt that the Model 42 would shoot an inch at 25 yards if the rifle were in a vice, but I still don’t know how well it would shoot to point of aim. If I am to believe what I’m told, these results come from shooting standing. I don’t think this is with the gun locked up in any kind of brace. One reports shooting groups right at an inch with the. I’m not sure if I can blame the Model 42, or if it is just this Model 42. With the Buckmark, I could put rounds into a one inch bulls-eye. I had a Browning Buckmark Camper with me the day I was shooting the Model 42. I can tag a tin can, but that’s about the limit. While I’m on my soap-box, I’ll go ahead and admit that I can’t hit much with the. In this era of fiber optics, I don’t understand why the sights on the Model 42 aren’t any better. I also find it very difficult to pick up against the back sight. But the front sight leaves a lot to be desired, at least for the. It is a flat black sight with decent cut out. And the simple steel blades that catch the rim of the brass can be easily adjusted if it isn’t pulling as well as you’d like.īut the Model 42 does have one defining issue.
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The extractor is a simple slide that lifts the spent brass free of the chamber. The trigger and trigger guard are also polymer. The forend, also polymer, is equally nice. The texture of the stock’s grip is reasonable. This allows the whole package to weigh in below the old school Model 24s. But the hammer will still drop, and it can scare you good if you’re not expecting it to fall. The safety, which must be engaged from the left side of the gun and disengaged from the right, blocks the hammer’s path to the pin. I find I can cock the hammer and change the pin selector in one fluid motion. While this can provide a bit of confusion at first, the hammer is intuitive enough. The hammer has what amounts to a selector switch which allows the shooter to choose which pin the hammer will hit. Like the Model 24 of old, the Model 42’s. And that, I think, is why its number has been flipped around. The new Model 42 has left behind the traditional wood and steel feel of the old Model 24. The feel, though, could not be much different. The new Model 42 shares this configuration. 22LR/.410 shotshell combo introduced back in 1939. These came in a variety of configurations, but the most utilitarian was the. One of the most prized Savages in many shooters’ collections is a Model 24.
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