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Remington 700 scope mounting problem
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<blockquote data-quote="James Jones" data-source="post: 245599" data-attributes="member: 8843"><p>seeing that you have the money invested in building the rifle up to meet your accuracy specs you may as well have the base hole alighnment problem fixed correctly rather than try to ship your scope over.</p><p> </p><p>Most any smith with a decient size mill can set the barreled action up and indicate it strait with the bore and just redrill the scope base holes to larger</p><p> 8-40 screws from the typical 6-48 , the drilling needs to be done with an end mill so that the drill doesen't just follow the old hole but actualy cuts a new one then its tapped in the same fixture.</p><p> </p><p>Now if they are so far out of wack that the new bigger holes won't fix it then the holes can be welded up and redrilled. the smith would have to look and see what holes are the farthest out and see what the best way to fix it would be , idealy he would be able to fix the front end witht he bigger screw holes and just weld up the rear holes and redrill and tap trying to avoid welding on the front of the action close to the lugs , this can be done but should be done by an experiance welder using some heat control past and a heat sink and can make the weld as fast as possible and cool the area off as fast as possible.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="James Jones, post: 245599, member: 8843"] seeing that you have the money invested in building the rifle up to meet your accuracy specs you may as well have the base hole alighnment problem fixed correctly rather than try to ship your scope over. Most any smith with a decient size mill can set the barreled action up and indicate it strait with the bore and just redrill the scope base holes to larger 8-40 screws from the typical 6-48 , the drilling needs to be done with an end mill so that the drill doesen't just follow the old hole but actualy cuts a new one then its tapped in the same fixture. Now if they are so far out of wack that the new bigger holes won't fix it then the holes can be welded up and redrilled. the smith would have to look and see what holes are the farthest out and see what the best way to fix it would be , idealy he would be able to fix the front end witht he bigger screw holes and just weld up the rear holes and redrill and tap trying to avoid welding on the front of the action close to the lugs , this can be done but should be done by an experiance welder using some heat control past and a heat sink and can make the weld as fast as possible and cool the area off as fast as possible. [/QUOTE]
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