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Originally Posted by Doyle
The downside of the 24s is that Savage didn't provide easy ways for them to be scope mounted. Scope bases for many of them are not available and must be custom made and drilled.
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Depends on the specimen. Quite a few of the 24s, including some of the older ones (mine is circa 1964) have 3/8-inch dovetail grooves cut in the rifle barrel. It's a trick finding a mount that will hold up to the recoil of the shotgun barrel, but I (and others) have found that the
BKL 260 unitized mount works well; it has four inches of clamping length and six screws. And I have my mount in contact with the original rear sight, which acts like a recoil block. Has worked great.
I just sold a 24 in .22/.410 that was older than my E-DL that also had the dovetail grooves. So finding one of those is the ticket. Of course, on a .22, a scope might be superfluous.
43FLcracker, I scoped mine to take advantage of the longer range of the .22 mag.