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If it won't drop in then the insert needs to be touched up with a single cut smooth 6" or 8" file, a little at a time, until it just pushes into Or it may require a stronger push but should not be forced or hit with a hammer (!). Rifle to make sure there's no burrs on the inside of the ladder ears that would interfere with the LER mount setting down into the rear sight base.ĭepending on the rifle the LER insert may drop in with gentle thumb pressure This is really the only critial dimension on this mount. The arrows indicate the dimension between the ladder ears. This particular rifle bears that damage, though it is 109 years old. The back end of the sight base is often smacked to loosen it.
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Most likely, though, its due to some damage in use or when the rifle was rebarreled and the rear sight base was removed and re-soldered to the new barrel. But this dimensional discrepency is due mostly to injury or damage to the rear sight, or burrs on the metal. They are not all the same distance between the ladder ears. I have 3 loose m/96 rear sight bases and 2 m/96 rifles in the shop. The circle shows the surface that you would touch up with a smooth file to fit between the ladder ears. That's the limitation for this particular mount.
1891 ARGENTINE MAUSER RIFLE SCOPE MOUNT SERIES
So this mount will require a long eye relief scope longer than the NcStar series of LER scopes. It still has the limitations regarding ring position and eye relief adjustment. It is a tad shorter by 1/4" to 5/16" than V.3. 004" higher than V.3 which means its very low. This mount now uses the top hat anchor instead of a setscrew. They're pretty much like the Weaver with a coin slot nut. The "quick release" version of these rings are KS-302. Nice 4 screw caps make getting crosshairs straight easy compared with the headache of Weaver rings. Kwik-Site model KS-WEV for scopes up to 32mm objective lens diameter. They were a set of rings picked up from the local gunshop down the street for about $15. What made it nicer were the very low rings. I had thought these scopes had too short eye relief to work well with the Swede m/96 LER mount but this was real nice. I shouldered the rifle and was surprised at how well the scope was presented to the shooter's view.
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So the scope arrived today and they got it installed. The overall length could be explained by the varying focal length but the distance from the turret to the front of the bell was 1/2" shorter on the UAG scope. Dimensionally there's a couple differences. Erroneously, I thought these were the same as NcStar.
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Almost like it was made for it! They ordered a scope from a vendor off ebay that I'd done business with before, Ultimate Arms on ebay.(low prices & fast shipping). Dropped right in with only the slightest resistance. This last week I installed a mount for my son-in-law's father's nice elm stocked 1917 m/96. I want to see how it shoots with those sights before I decide what to do with the rifle. I took the scope off and installed a Soderin diopter and front target sight. I prefer 5 shots into 1 hole at 50 yards. It'll put 5 cast bullets into 1" at 50 yds but it won't do any better than that. This 1919 Gustaf has been my primary range rifle for many years. It has a pretty good bore but it may need some bedding help. It hasn't shot as accurate as I'd like and falls way short of competing with the 1908 I'm now shooting. The 1900 Oberndorf FrankenSwede will be set aside for a while. This rifle has proven itself very capable with jacketed bullets from 85 gr HP to the 160 gr Hornady round nose. It's a 1908 Carl Gustaf with a like-new bore and overall a very nice rifle. The object of this discussion centers around mounting optical sights toĬollectable rifles without modifying or permenently altering them and damaging their future collectability and monetary value.Ī couple random shots of the rifle I'll now use as my standard "shooter". Many rifles, as with the 1896 Swedish Mauser, are calibrated to zero at 300 meters rendering themįairly useless unless changed or otherwise modified. The second group are those who enjoy hunting with their collectable military rifle but find the sights aren't calibrated or We like shooting but can't see the sights so well anymore. 29, 2017 - A clone of my m/39 mount is now available fromĪ high percentage of milsurp collectors and shooters are now older and afflicted with the universal fuzzy eye syndrom. JBuilding a better mousetrap - the Gewehr 1898 German infantry rifle Long Eye Relief Scope Mounts, Finn m/39 Mosin-Nagant, Gewehr 1898, 1908 Brazilian, 1909 Argentine, 1891 Argentine Mauser, Czech 98/29 Persian, Swedish Mausers 1896, 1895 Chilean MauserĪ Study in Concept, Design and Manufacture