You have to manually cock the hammer each time for firing, regardless of what you do with the hinged action, and Savage has included an additional safety feature in the Model 42 to resist any unintentional discharges as a result of mishandling. The design is built to allow this process to be totally independent of the external hammer unlike a lever-action or a bolt-action rifle, or a pump or semi-auto shotgun, opening the action doesn’t re-cock the gun. After firing, repeat the process to extract the empties and/or reload. Load the chambers, and the barrels swing back up to their locked firing position. Pull back on that lever with your trigger finger to unlock the action, and the forward barrel section swings down to expose the chamber mouths.
A hinged-type action that breaks open, to select a barrel, you flip a toggle “switch” in the face of the hammer up or down to strike either the higher or lower firing pin, and the gun uses a lever underneath the forend, just forward of the triggerguard, to unlock and open for both loading and extraction. Like its ancestors, the Savage Model 42 retains the very simple basic action that’s easy for anybody to learn and use effectively. 410 chamber on the bottom, the Model 42 weighs in at 6.1 pounds empty, which is a welcome weight reduction over its previous wood-stocked ancestors for extended carry in hand on a long hunt or attached to a backpack during a prolonged trek on foot. Tracing its roots back to the Model 24 in 1939, the Savage combo gun has been gone from the lineup for a while, but in late 2012 Savage brought the concept back in the form of the new Model 42, a lightweight adaptation with 20-inch barrels and black synthetic furniture that should draw interest among those who like a trim long gun for small-game uses in either a camp or trail gun role. Eventually, the idea caught on here in the U.S., and although the combo gun has never reached the same popularity levels as the dedicated single-purpose rifle or shotgun, there’s been enough market for Savage Arms to keep various generations of the company’s over/unders (O/Us) going for many years.
The combination of a shotgun barrel with a rifle barrel on the same stock obviously added weight over a single-barreled version of either type, and the evolution of the three-barrel drillings even more so, but when game was plentiful and money no object, the advantage of a single well-crafted gun that could bag anything on its owner’s lands appealed to many well-heeled sportsmen. Landed gentry, without the restrictions imposed by the modern day hunting seasons we deal with today, could and did hunt anything they wanted to-any time they wanted to, on their own extensive estates. The concept is an old one, originating in Europe, where the wealthy classes could afford the extra costs of a two-barreled gun that doubled its hunting utility by allowing it to chase either a stag or a bird on the same hunt as the opportunities presented themselves. Combo guns, as a generic term, usually refer to shoulder-fired guns that feature a combination of two or more barrels that fire a shot charge through one and a bullet through the other.
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