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Scoping a Browning semi-auto .22

mikemmikem Member Posts: 48 ✭✭
edited March 2008 in Ask the Experts
Hi,

Do you have to remove the folding rear sight on a Browning semi-auto .22 (the takedown .22) in order to install the #60A scope mount of does the fold down sight allow you to install the mount without removing the sight?

Thanks,

Mike
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  • RCrosbyRCrosby Member Posts: 3,808 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Mike,
    I no longer have either of my Browning Auto's, but if it's the mount that screws to the barrel and extends back over the receiver I recall that yes, the folding sight has to be removed.
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  • mikemmikem Member Posts: 48 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Rob,

    That's the one. Since it is a takedown rifle, Browning designed the barrel mount for the scope in order to prevent losing zero when the rifle is broken down. Sounds like a good idea. We'll see.

    Thanks,

    Mike
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  • slumlord44slumlord44 Member Posts: 3,702 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I do not believe the sight has to be removed. Will look at mine Sun. or Mon. after I get back home from vacation and post confirmation.
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  • mikemmikem Member Posts: 48 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Thank you, Slumlord.
    Mike
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  • aliasalias Member Posts: 366 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I don't have a Browning, but I have a Norinco ATD, which is a cheap Chinese copy of the Browning and uses the 60A scope base. I had to take out the site to install the mount. Just tapped it out with a brass drift and a small hammer. I ended up going back to open sights on it, though.
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