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How is any sporterized rifle with a 2 piece scope base accurate?
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<blockquote data-quote="Technologist" data-source="post: 3078729" data-attributes="member: 62954"><p>I want to set up one of the family heirloom rifles as a proper, ready to go hunting rifle that will be accurate and reliable. If there is a lot of misaligned tension in the scope mount, I'll worry the scope base screws will break again.</p><p></p><p>Some fine people have suggested various ambitious courses of action involving lathes and jigs. Others have proposed that I ignore the misalignent and just screw the pieces together.</p><p></p><p>How about this for a middle of the road fudd home gunsmith solution:</p><p></p><p>First a separate, straight, piece of picatinny rail to mount decent rings to a seemingly straight scope. I then decide which of my loose scope bases appears to be taller than the other (with respect to the top surface on which the scope mount stands). Could possibly create a difference in height with a thin shimming operation, but holding the rifle to flat surfaces make it seem as if the front base is true and the rear is unaligned and lower than the front.</p><p></p><p>The base which appears taller and truer is left screwed in place while I put a smudge of some bedding compount beneath the other. I then use the scope with the prepared scope rings to force the floating base in alignment with the screwed fixed base.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Technologist, post: 3078729, member: 62954"] I want to set up one of the family heirloom rifles as a proper, ready to go hunting rifle that will be accurate and reliable. If there is a lot of misaligned tension in the scope mount, I'll worry the scope base screws will break again. Some fine people have suggested various ambitious courses of action involving lathes and jigs. Others have proposed that I ignore the misalignent and just screw the pieces together. How about this for a middle of the road fudd home gunsmith solution: First a separate, straight, piece of picatinny rail to mount decent rings to a seemingly straight scope. I then decide which of my loose scope bases appears to be taller than the other (with respect to the top surface on which the scope mount stands). Could possibly create a difference in height with a thin shimming operation, but holding the rifle to flat surfaces make it seem as if the front base is true and the rear is unaligned and lower than the front. The base which appears taller and truer is left screwed in place while I put a smudge of some bedding compount beneath the other. I then use the scope with the prepared scope rings to force the floating base in alignment with the screwed fixed base. [/QUOTE]
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