Help me Troubleshoot

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I have a problem that I can't figure out and hopefully you guys can provide me some good help. I have a Maadi AK47 and I decided to mount a scope on it for fun. So it was pretty straight forward I swapped out the two pins and attached the mount, everything looked fine. Put the scope rings (CAA) and put a Simmons Aetec scope on. Everything looks sturdy and parrallel with the barrel so I took it down to the range to sight it in. At 50yrds it shot nowhere near the target, missing by feet high left. I used the elevation and windage adjustments and maxed out down right and it's still feet away from the target. What could it be? If it was a shaky foundation it wouldn't be consistently in the same place, I'm pretty sure it wouldn't be the actual scope itself, and it all looks parallel to the barrel. Plus paralax wouldn't have that great of an effect. It's just such a weird problem I've never seen before, can anyone help me out?

Some background though, I shoot that gun with irons all the time and it's dead on at 50 and 100yrds, so no AK bashing please :neener:

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So I am assuming the rifle does not have the normal AK scope mount rail so that is why you are using that B-Square mount? B-Square is not exactly known for making quality mounts. So either 4 things:

1) Your scope is off - Not Likely
2) Your Mount is mounted incorrectly (it does not look adjustable like the russian ones)
3) Your mount is askew
4) The mounting point on the rifle is askew.

I am assuming 3 or 4 and leaning towards 3 but these Maadi AKs are a tossup whether they are quality or built by monkeys so 4 could definitely be it too. Your best bet is to try another mount.
 
Assuming it is the mount itself, do you know any quality mounts that could replace it?

It's so strange because assembling everything I had no problems and all the bolts matched up perfectly but it must be askew somehow. :fire:
 
Yeah I don't know then I would just stick with the irons then. Or get a side rail from Tantal and install it so you can use the better side mounts.
 
Problem solved, it got to the point where it was aggrevating me enough to take it off and reassemble with the original pins. Irons are the way it was intended to be shot and that's the way I will from now on.
 
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