Scope Mounting HELP!

[Ohio Gun Guy]

I recently bought a M96 mauser that was already drilled and tapped. It has 2 screws in the (Front) reciever and one screw in the rear bridge. I have looked on-line for a specification sheet or something that will tell me the screw pattern for Leupold, Redfield, or b-square (One piece) mounts; However, NOBODY posts this simple information. Do I just have to buy one and see if it fits, or am I really lucky and all manufacturers use a standard screw pattern / spacing?

Anyone with a scoped bolt action care to measure the screw pattern of your scope mount and tell me what manufacturer it is?

Here are the dimentions of mine.

From the rear bridge (Single screw / Center to Center) to the farthest screw:5 - 1/16"

From the rear bridge (Single Screw / Center to Center) to the nearest screw: 4 - 3/16"

Distance between the front 2 screws: 7/8" (14/16")

Any help would be greatly appreciated. I suppose if all else fails I can re-drill the scope mount....

 

[7.62X25mm]

Jeez!

Take it into your local gun dealer and have them find you a mounting system.

I don't do "rails," but it's probably really standard.

 

[1911 guy]

What's "jeez" supposed to mean?

The guy has a question and your response is "jeez"? Sorry, I thought I'd logged onto The High Road.

Ohio Gun Guy, I don't do mil-surp guns often, but I'm guessing it's likely a standard placement. There aren't too many one of a kind mounts, because nobody wants to soak that much time into most surplus rifles.

If I was a gamblin' man, I'd buy a B-Square mount first, they have the market pretty well saturated with mounts for things that weren't made with scopes in mind, like Mausers, Enfields, etc. The spacing will of course be different for different types of rifles due to reciever dimensions, but yours is likely drilled for an existing aftermarket mount.

Now the option presented by 7.62x25 is entirely viable. Most shops would be more than willing to spend a few minutes looking at the rifle and finding something in inventory that works right. Buy mounts, rings and glass from a shop, I don't know of any that wouldn't mount and boresight for you.

 

[f4t9r]

What's "jeez" supposed to mean?

displaying anger/disapointment/wow towards a person/object/event.

 

[Macmac]

Getting mounts on mil mausers is a craft IMO, not so easily done. Most cheap mounts set the scope up too high, and other cheap mounts make it nearly impossible to use the safety and or work the bolt if these are low.

So I would want to pull the bolt to go into a shop and see what they have. Make no committments and go to several more shops for the same reason.

I wouldn't get hasty deciding untill you have seen a great deal of mounts and scopes.

All sorts of problems can happen, and finding what works for you over all should end up right the first time. Probelms come under getting rings that will work with the forward wider part of a scope, eye relief for the given scope so you can see more than a black spot, but don't get a new set of stitches over your eye.

You may find mounts that line up with the holes as is, and maybe not.

Is this by any chance a 6.5x55?

 

[Ohio Gun Guy]

MacMac

Its already tapped and has the bolt bent so I will be scoping it.... there is no reason not to. I was just hoping to find a mount that matched up to it. There are lots of things I can do to make it work, I was just hoping that everyone would reply that mounting patterns are fairly standard, it sounds like they are not.

Yes it is the 6.5x55

 

[jcjacobvt]

Since all my firearms use the Weaver bases and ring system, I always go here.

http://www.weaver-mounts.com/charts/charts.aspx

Good luck in your search, I would thnk other manufacturers are on line also.

http://www2.leupold.com/resources/MountFitChart/default.asp

http://www.redfield-mounts.com/referance.asp

http://www.ironsighter.com/

 

[rcmodel]

If it is an older scope mounting job, it is most likely either a Redfield or Leupold one-piece base.

Your best bet is to take the rifle to a well stocked dealer and try matching something up.

 

[Macmac]

Ohio Gun Guy, Yes I understand the gun is drilled just 3 times and each hole is threaded, but I don't know and you don't know for what bases, and if the threads are SAE or metric.

So I am guessing it will be a bit of trouble just finding bases that line up with the holes as they are now.

For 30 years I have been looking for the scope mount on a odd gun I have, and i don't want any more holes.

If you happen to trip over what ever it is that fits all these holes, I'ld like to know about it.

 

[Jim Watson]

As to the OP, I think rcmodel is right; most likely a Redfield JR-MK. Holes 6-48.
Call Brownell's, ask for Technical Support and see if they will check your measurements against bases in stock. Or at least send you one with a return guarantee, they are pretty good about that. (800)741-0015 or (641)623-5401

As to the last post, some kind of side mount on a small ring Mauser. The stock was apparently replaced after the scope was taken off, it looks like some of the holes are below the top edge of the inletting. I'll see if I can find a picture of one with that staggered pattern or if you have to consider the possibility it was swiss cheesed for two different bases over the years.

Scope base might have been a Jaeger. Is that a fairly nice rifle? The Jaeger is similar to the G&H and pretty expensive in its day.

 

[Macmac]

Jim The stock is inlett, but out of view. This is one of those rifles I guess that is nice, but isn't all just one gun. For a long time I thought it was a mannliker, as it shoots 6.5x54MS. What I think it is now is a Mauser Mod 91 like Spanish, in a mannliker like stock. My best guess is that this was built from parts in the 50's.

I have other pics, but don't want to totally pirate this thread..

 

[Ohio Gun Guy]

Got it figured out. The front spacing matches a Weaver base exactly. for the rear, I basically took a weaver rear and milled, ground, and filed it to fit. Took 3 hours in the shop, but it fits like a glove. I leveled the action and then leveled the scope base/s. Here are the pictures. I will be replacing the rings with better, slightly higer rings next week (After pay day). The scope is a 50mm 3.5 to 10 power NRA scope I found on sale. Never used one like that before, but we will see.....


For any new readers, the mauser was already drilled and tapped & had the bolt bent. I just further bubba's it.

 

[moosehunt]

I realize you solved your problem, but for the record: Having 3 holes pretty well dictates that it was drilled for a one piece mount. Regarding the M96, I once went through a period of messing with them a lot and found that the only commercial base was a Redfield JR, which works great. Problem is, Redfield quit making them long ago. As soon as I realized that their availability was going to end, I purchased several, and glad I did. At any rate, I'd wager that is what it is drilled for. I haven't kept up with M96 components, but unless someone has recently come out with a new mount for it, your best option is to find one of the old Redfield JR bases for the M96. It was # 511138