Bountyhunter,

The Savage site was working fine last night - the 24s are not easy to find on it, though.

As I recall, one of the 24C guns I remember did NOT have that snazzy factory zipper case - it had something like a felt bag with two "chambers" for the two parts of the broken-down gun. That one was a HUNTING gun, not a car gun - and it was a dandy for small game. It took ptarmigan and bunnies with monotonous regularity - 22 for stationary and 20 ga for running/flying.

Fast forward many years and my two younger sons team-performed the same function for us on trips, one carrying a single-shot Marlin 22 (15Y) and the other a Rem 870 Youth model 20 ga... a pair of 24C Savages would fit the role better...

BTW, ptarmigan were one of the reasons why I got rid of the 22/410 I had - it would not reliably drop a flying-away ptarmigan. About one of 5 would be a cloud of tail feathers and then I'd have to sneak up on a wounded bird... <shrug> I took more ptarmigan with a hot-loaded Ruger single action in 45 Colt than anything else anyway, because I always had that on me and it was easy to head shoot a sitting bird for lunch/supper.

The other M24C I remember was kept stowed in a Supercub in the type of case shown in the picture and I don't think it was used very often - pity. It was in the niche of "survival gun" for the owner of the airplane.

I really, really wish I had bought a couple of those... or 3 or 4...

Tom