Fitting WGRS for Savage 24 to Barrel

[JNewell]

Posted this in the Gunsmithing forum, but got no answers...probably too obscure. Hoping that some of the masters of the obscure here can help. Does anyone have any experience fitting a Williams Guide receiver sight on a Savage 24 (in this case, a 24C Camper)?

There are two side clamps that screw down on the grooves on top of the rifle barrel to lock the sight base in place, that's pretty obvious. What's not so obvious is how to get the sight base down onto the barrel, since the groove on the base looks like an almost zero-tolerance fit for the groove on the barrel. In other words, it looks like it could slide on from the rear, maybe, but the groove doesn't go all the way to the breech, and the sight base won't go flush down on the barrel from the top. As a result, the off-side clamp won't even reach the groove.

I must be missing something, but I'm not sure what. Any suggestions appreciated. The only one I can see is to remove some metal from the base, but I can't believe Williams would have designed and sold it that way.

 

[BEARMAN]

Goto www.williamsgunsight.com They list a 5D-22/410 for the Savage 24 and Have a WGRS 54 that fits grooved receivers of most .22's and they say it may have to be altered to fit some firearms.

 

[JNewell]

Thanks, that's interesting. The groove on the 24C is totally different from the standard rimfire groove, but maybe they took the same approach. Still, it's kind of odd because the base actually looks like it should slide on from the rear and that the clamps would only serve to lock it in fore/aft, and not have to hold it down on the barrel.

 

[JNewell]

Spoke with the factory yesterday. They're going to check the prints, if they can find them, and give me a call on how this might have/should have fitted. We'll see what we can learn.

 

[Oohrah]

I have one of the older ones with the barrel selector on the
side of the receiver. The top barrel, (.22) has two parallel
groves on both sides. I once had a Weaver B scope that
would attach to the barrel with it's one piece mount.