Savage 24F scope mount problem

[zeitgeist]

Hi,

A while back I got a Savage 24F. The gun came drilled and tapped for a side mounting scope mount and one came with it. I recently put a scope on it. The darn thing is pretty accurate given what it is and the truly awful factory trigger pull. However, when I fire the 12 gauge barrel the scope mount shifts! I've remounted the thing a couple of times and the problem won't go away. The problem seems to be that instead of tight round holes like most scope mounts have this mount has two parallel slots both at about a 45 degree angle. I'm sure this was done to give the person mounting the scope some adjustment in the mount because older Savage 24Fs were drilled and tapped for a mount on top of the rifle barrel and I'm told it was a tight fit to mount a scope that way (the rifle barrel is a small, straight tube with no contour). Regardless of why it was done the slots allow the mount to shift when the shotgun barrel is fired. Has anyone out there successfully mounted a scope on one of these newer Savage 24Fs with the side mount?

Thanks.

 

[zeitgeist]

Update

I'm not sure how interested anyone is in this topic, it's kind of a specialized problem but I'll add this information in the hopes it might help someone else. I finally called B-Square, who made the mount for my 24F. I spoke to a couple of different people and they were both aware of the problem. Savage apparently insisted on the design of my mount. The people at B-Square told the people at Savage that the screw slots wouldn't work but the Savage people insisted on them. Apparently there have been several changes to the design of this mount but the one that matters to me is that the latest version has round, countersunk holes for the mounting screws instead of slots. I ordered a new mount directly from B-Square. I'll probably add one more post to this thread after I get the new mount and let people know how things turned out.

 

[Art Eatman]

Probably should have been in the Gunsmithing & Repairs forum, but since you've identified the problem and the solution it can have a home here.

Art

 

[zeitgeist]

It probably should have but I posted the message here first because there was another thread on the Savage Model 24 in this area. Information on the Savage 24s is pretty hard to come by and this is one of the few places on the Internet where I found anything useful so I posted here in the hopes that some people with Savage 24s were reading this section. Later, I did go ahead and post the same message in the gunsmithing section too.