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SCOPE MOUNTING EXPERTS !!!

METCOMETCO Member Posts: 769 ✭✭✭✭
edited May 2002 in Ask the Experts
IN THE PAST SIX MONTHS. I HAVE FELL IN LOVE WITH THE MODEL 95 STRAIGHT
PULL STEYR.
I'VE WORKED UP A 175 GR. LOAD THAT I LIKE.
IT'S A SHORT LIGHT EXTREMELY FAST BOLT , I USE FOR THICK BRUSH& SWAMP HOG HUNTING.
I WANT TO SCOPE ONE OF MY STEYR'S. SCOUT TYPE MOUNT.

ANY HELP,ADVICE,IDEAS, WOULD BE APPRICATED!!!!!!!!
THANKS
METCO
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  • Der GebirgsjagerDer Gebirgsjager Member Posts: 1,673 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    I share your regard for this rifle, and have several M95s in my collection. I believe that a gunsmith with a milling machine could make a scout-type scope mount for you that would attach to the rear sight base after one had removed the flip-up sight ladder. It would utilize the hinge pin hole and the screw hole that retains the leaf spring for attachment. As you probably know, most of the M95s started life in W.W.I as long rifles, and were later either cut down or rebarrelled. The cut down rifles usually retain the longer rear sight, whereas the rebarrelled models usually have a short sight. A scout scope mount as described (which is pretty much how they're made for other rifles)would work best on the longer sight base, but if carefully made from steel rather than aluminum should also prove workable on the short base. In the case of the short base I would keep scope weight and length to a minimum. The problem here, of course, is that since this is custom work, the cost of the mount will probably exceed the cost of the rifle times 2 or 3. As the M95 has a solid top receiver it can be drilled and tapped for conventional scope mounting, although the action design may reqire the scope to be of slightly longer eye relief than conventional, and for the scope to be mounted a little higher than usual if you work the bolt "knuckles up".
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  • METCOMETCO Member Posts: 769 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    DER GEBIRGSJAGER,
    AS ALLWAYS YOUR ADVICE IS VALUED!!
    MY TWO 95/34'S HAVE LONG REAR SIGHTS.MY 95 HAS SHORT SIGHT.IT'S THE ONE I WANT TO SCOPE.
    WILL SEND YOU INFO. AFTER MY MACHINEST IS FINISHED.
    THANK GOODNESS HE'S A CLOSE FRIEND AND STILL OWES ME FROM LAST TRADE.
    THANKS
    METCO
    ED TAYLOR
    LAKELAND,FL.
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  • Der GebirgsjagerDer Gebirgsjager Member Posts: 1,673 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Ha,ha,ha...ha! My friend, if you can keep a machinist in your debt you will go far indeed! Also, thank you for the kind words. The reason I specified steel for the short sight scope mount is the slam/bang of the action, recoil of a relatively stout cartridge, and (mechanically speaking) a shorter distance between mounting points. If your machinist friend will examine the old S&K and B-Square mounts he'll get the idea. I have an old S&K on an as-issued .308 Mauser, and it's aluminum; but the distance between mounting points is longer. Best wishes on your project. The Mountain Hunter.
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