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I've been a collector/shooter of mostly military bolt action rifles since age 14 in 1965. Mostly Mausers but not all. I've specialized in 1896 Swedish Mausers for the last 20 years and I'm pretty well known to Swedish Mauser collectors around the world.
As most of you probably know already when you get older.. past 40.. past 50.. your eyesight goes bye bye. Couple this with poor military iron sights and it causes a lot of shooters to miss shots they shouldn't.. or so they say. Plus iron sights aren't the best for hunting with a 29" barreled Mauser in dim light.
Modifying collectible rifles is against my religion. But not all military bolt action rifles are collectible. I have 3 or 4 Swedish Mausers that have mis-matched numbers or are put together from parts that give me immunity from prosecution of my own religious beliefs.
The use of long eye relief scopes, or handgun scopes, on rifles isn't new. There are a couple commercial LER mount makers with S&K being probably the oldest. They're good solid mounts but many of them are way too high for no good reason. (I'd like to spend a couple weeks in the machine shop of S&K redesigning their mounts).
My first attempt at a LER mount took 3 tries to get it to where I was happy with it.
Its a very well known rifle. I've had a lot of requests to reproduce it but up to now I haven't. I do have plans with the new Enco mill to produce some for sale. Its not like its a complicated issue designing this kind of mount. But you can't alter the rifle and can't drill and tap anything. You have to utilize exisiting attachment points and stay within the boundaries, usually, of the rear sight base.
The method of anchoring the LER mount on the above rifle is now obsolete. From now on I'm going to use a method that I call the 'top hat' anchor as that's what it looks like. And strangely, the dimensions of .500/.501" wide and .031" thick are nearly universal for quite a few different models of Mausers made in many different countries.
This is the 'top hat' before the thickness is trimmed to size.
As most of you probably know already when you get older.. past 40.. past 50.. your eyesight goes bye bye. Couple this with poor military iron sights and it causes a lot of shooters to miss shots they shouldn't.. or so they say. Plus iron sights aren't the best for hunting with a 29" barreled Mauser in dim light.
Modifying collectible rifles is against my religion. But not all military bolt action rifles are collectible. I have 3 or 4 Swedish Mausers that have mis-matched numbers or are put together from parts that give me immunity from prosecution of my own religious beliefs.
The use of long eye relief scopes, or handgun scopes, on rifles isn't new. There are a couple commercial LER mount makers with S&K being probably the oldest. They're good solid mounts but many of them are way too high for no good reason. (I'd like to spend a couple weeks in the machine shop of S&K redesigning their mounts).
My first attempt at a LER mount took 3 tries to get it to where I was happy with it.
Its a very well known rifle. I've had a lot of requests to reproduce it but up to now I haven't. I do have plans with the new Enco mill to produce some for sale. Its not like its a complicated issue designing this kind of mount. But you can't alter the rifle and can't drill and tap anything. You have to utilize exisiting attachment points and stay within the boundaries, usually, of the rear sight base.
The method of anchoring the LER mount on the above rifle is now obsolete. From now on I'm going to use a method that I call the 'top hat' anchor as that's what it looks like. And strangely, the dimensions of .500/.501" wide and .031" thick are nearly universal for quite a few different models of Mausers made in many different countries.
This is the 'top hat' before the thickness is trimmed to size.
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