Vern Humphrey
Member
I want to know more about the sliding mounts...I remember reading in the books about Hathcock and others "pulling the scope back through the mounts", and I thought that was unusual.
Scopes can be damaged by recoil. Some scopes of that era and earlier, such as the Unertal, had a mount that allowed the scope to slide in the mount. When you fired the rifle, the rifle recoiled, and the scope basically remained still, with the rifle moving backward under it.
After each shot, you had to reach up and pull the scope back into aiming position.