My first model 24 was a .22/.410 with a "plastic" stock and button selector; and, as a kid, I was "hooked" on having a choice of rifle or shotgun in my hands to hunt. The second one was a wood stock .22Mag/20g - I should have kept it, for even with an 8# trigger it was on of the most "useful" combinations I ever owned, but I was too young and poor to have a "gunsmith" work it over for me. Over the next decade, I owned a .222/20ga with the then, newly designed, "split barrels which was the most inaccurate rifle barrel I've ever shot in that caliber. (I formed a mistrust for the split barrel design in any firearm where one barrel was "hangared" with another and stayed away from the newer model 24, especially the center fire combinations, for a while.) The one I bought and kept over the last 30 years is a .22LR over a 20ga and it will go to my son when I'm done. It is superbly accurate and I have made one of the longest shotgun hits on a crow at this time and date (very tightly choked), and the .22 barrel will shoot any brand as accurate as the best "bolt action" rifle I've owned or tried. It is a DL model with the barrel selector on the hammer, and the barrels "wed". In addition to the .22/20, I have owned one .22/.410 in the last 5 years, but did not find the .410 as satisfactory as the 20ga; especially since .410 ammo usually cost more than the "garden variety" 20ga rounds (I sold it quickly). I also own a "Drilling" that I typically hunt with at least once a season for bird or deer (successfully). Compared to the Drilling or "Cape" gun, the Model 24 is the most inexpensive and useful "combination" gun (IMHO) that a person can own. My experience and personal bias with the one center fire model, not withstanding, I would not hesitate to purchase another in any caliber with a 20ga barrel over the "tube" and feel "lucky" indeed for owning a true "bargain".
