My first ever rifle, owned since boyhood, was a Savage Model 1911 .22 Short given to me by the previous owner, my Dad! It fed from a double tube-magazine through the buttstock. It was made the same way as the 23A. Killed a million birds'n'bunnies with that little gem until the chamber eventually wore so much the fired cases looked like little brass wine-barrels and the extractor would no longer engage the rim!