I would contract Savage first and explain to them what you stated here.
Could be cheaper than buying a new barrel.

 

I'd recommend checking with Savage too. It would be trivially easy to just TIG weld, recut, and reblue something like that, but it would cost as much as a good used barrel if you can't do the work yourself. There are several barrels on ebay at the moment with slightly different terms of sale. There are quite a few sellers who do not accept returns, but there are a couple of sellers who do accept returns within 30 days. If you end up buying one there, at Gunbroker, etc. I'd recommend buying from a seller who accepts returns, even if it costs a little extra. Some sellers include free shipping but some don't, so you have to watch out for that too when comparison shopping.

 

Just to verify what you’re describing: Are you saying it’s ”higher” from side to side or are you saying it’s not parallel from side to side? Dovetails are deliberately cut so as not to be parallel. That’s what holds the sight in place.

 

Correct the dovetail isn't parallel with the dovetail for the front sight. I'm leaning towards buying a barrel on EBAY and hanging onto mine or maybe even selling it on EBAY as well or even here if someone is interested.

 

If I'm getting this correctly the bottom of the front dovetail and the bottom of the rear dovetail are not parallel - so straight edges place on the bottom of the dovetails will not line up horizontally. If you are not concerned about appearance, I think you could put a slight twist in a rear sight near the dovetail to get it to line up with the front sight and it should still adjust up & down without much, if any, sideways movement to the sight line.

 

I understood the OP to mean the dovetail for the rear sight was cut with the flat rotated past the horizontal position. So that the left side is higher on the barrel than the right side. Correct?

 

Correct !! The rear sight is canted!

 

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It's probably the whole barrel, not just the rear sight.

In that case, the only fix is to remove the barrel pin, press out the barrel, realign it, and reinstall. That's not an operation for the faint of heart.

If you're going to all that trouble, why not have a gunsmith set the barrel back a bit and recut the chamber to a tighter chamber like a Bentz, or, if you don't care about the rifle not extracting loaded ammo, go full match.

Yes, the dovetail under the barrel will have to be recut, but since the barrel has to come out anyway...

 

It's probably the whole barrel, not just the rear sight.

Turning the barrel would then put the front sight off the other way and throw off the cuts at the chamber. The front and rear dovetails are not parallel to each other.

 

Mount the barreled action perfectly vertical in v-blocks and dial indicate the flats in the front and rear dovetail cuts to verify if the cuts are 90* to the action and true with each other.
My guess is the barrel is off of true clocking in its fitting to the action. This is the type of thing easily, and often done when mounting barrels into 10/22's and paying more attention to the extractor cut that the sights. It doesnt take much 'off' to make the sights look bad.