You will need to purchase Savage rings for the Rascal in order to have the bolt handle not strike the ocular bell of any modern scope you buy. I splurged and put a Leupold 4x28 rimfire scope on my boys' "sniper rifle".
Get a 3-9X32mm Leapers Bug Buster... best scope made for these little .22's... a solid, inexpensive optic, that will focus down to "3 yards!" I have used many of them on various air rifles and rimfire.
I'm considering one of those Bug Busters for one of my .22s right now. A buddy of mine just got one for his 10/22 take-down and loves it. Our family "Racal" wears an old Scopechief, fixed 2.5 or 3x, an EGW Savage Rascal Base (Prophet River) and Leupold Rifleman "low" rings.
My son putting some CCI Quiet 22 down range...busting sitting clay pigeons.
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Remove the rear sight it's useless with a scope anyhow and just unscrews rather easy.
i slapped on fixed power scorpion scope on my "daughters" rascal, quotes as its become one of my fav grouse guns.lol, but as others have mentioned, buy the savage rascal bases otherwise the bolt wont clear the bell on the scope
I have the savage rascal bases, as mentioned I tried to put the weaver medium rings on them, and my 4x fixed Simmons scope is hitting the rear sight.



























