Vintage Savage Rimfires - Lets see em!

[Sav22]

I bought a sight that was supposed to be for a Savage 22... turned out to be for a Ross bolt action. It did motivate me to actually try some of my sights on rifles to see what they looked like. I thought this thread isn't that old & is close enough to the subject to post them here.

Here are the sights plus some others -


Here are the three that I mounted, the O2S for the Ross has exactly the same holes as the S2S sights but is taller and sits at a slightly different angle. The longer S2S for the early 1903, 1909 and 1912 has a relief on the under side for the head of the tang screw.




Here they are mounted on guns, note the string through the O2S that shows it is slightly to tall for a standard front sight, also think of the sight radius on these examples -


The hole spacing on Savage's is the same as Marlin - here is the early S2S on a Marlin 1897 with the O2S lined up below to show the difference in height and angle -