Thread: Euro mounts

Originally Posted by AWS

While I'm not a gunsmith, I have some experience fitting small parts. If you have the patients you can do somethings yourself. I I recut a set of Weaver steel high rings to mount a low power scope on a drilling. The drilling had high claw mounts, while suitable for hunting out of a blind they were totally useless for a fast handling still hunting rig. The new rings I made changed the whole dynamics of the gun more suitable for my hunting style.

Scope and new rings I recut, this was a long job, one stroke of the file, re-blacken, fit and another stroke of the file near the end.

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It did turn out working well, group was at 100 yards (90 meters)

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Original scope(6x48mm) on rifle, too high for quick mounting and good cheek-weld the scopes are interchangeable with no loss of zero.

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@AWS - I'm not brave enough to do any of it myself at the moment (at least not on my main rifle). That said, I'm quite keen on learning some traditional gunsmithing techniques/wood working in the future.

Nice job on the mounts! Who made the rifle? It looks lovely. There's nothing quite like a well broken-in wood/blue firearm.