FredC
Diamond
- Joined
- Oct 29, 2010
- Location
- Dewees Texas
Well has anyone ever done this? A gunsmith in training(GIT) brought in a 96 Mauser with 4 6-48 tapped holes. Screwed in a tap on each one and they were not even close to being centered or in line.
Put the receiver in the mill and lined it up, thought of mapping the holes and drilling the blank mount with offset and angled holes to match the receiver but nixed that as too time consuming. Well let see if the holes clean up for 8-40 screws and ran a 9/64 mill in the first 2 holes. Did not come close to cleaning up.
Looked at it real good and figured they would clean up with 10-32. He said go for it as the mount was deep enough for standard 10-32 Allen screws.
The rifle had all the parts nicely blued and was in a custom stock the scope will cover the 10-32 screws so the over all look will not be hurt.
The gun's owner left it with a gunsmith in San Antonio for several months with a promise to start on it right away. GIT brought it to me and while watching got something that will work in a couple of hours. Figure this was legal as the GIT has a license and was in sight of the gun the whole time.
In another thread Thermite said we want to see photos of the 96 Mauser. Intend to post photos when the GIT emails.
Put the receiver in the mill and lined it up, thought of mapping the holes and drilling the blank mount with offset and angled holes to match the receiver but nixed that as too time consuming. Well let see if the holes clean up for 8-40 screws and ran a 9/64 mill in the first 2 holes. Did not come close to cleaning up.
Looked at it real good and figured they would clean up with 10-32. He said go for it as the mount was deep enough for standard 10-32 Allen screws.
The rifle had all the parts nicely blued and was in a custom stock the scope will cover the 10-32 screws so the over all look will not be hurt.
The gun's owner left it with a gunsmith in San Antonio for several months with a promise to start on it right away. GIT brought it to me and while watching got something that will work in a couple of hours. Figure this was legal as the GIT has a license and was in sight of the gun the whole time.
In another thread Thermite said we want to see photos of the 96 Mauser. Intend to post photos when the GIT emails.