Jaegermeister
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I'm trying to help out a buddy. He has a Remington 11-87 and purchased a factory rifled slug barrel with open sights. He wants to mount a scope or red dot, but wants to avoid a saddle mount.
I had a great idea: How about mounting a Weaver rail on the barrel itself where the rear open sight would attach. This would require a long eye relief scope or a 50mm red dot scope. I thought that would be good because the scope would always stay sighted to the barrel and not on a saddle mount on the receiver. He uses the 11-87 for waterfowl with the standard barrel.
I went a different route and got a Hastings Paradox cantilever for my 870 Wingmaster. I use a 1.5 to 5x scope on that fully rifled barrel with great results.
Does anyone mount Weaver rails on slug barrels in the forward position on a slug barrel? If not, I'm going to have to apply for a patent and hire a gunsmith.
Thanks
I had a great idea: How about mounting a Weaver rail on the barrel itself where the rear open sight would attach. This would require a long eye relief scope or a 50mm red dot scope. I thought that would be good because the scope would always stay sighted to the barrel and not on a saddle mount on the receiver. He uses the 11-87 for waterfowl with the standard barrel.
I went a different route and got a Hastings Paradox cantilever for my 870 Wingmaster. I use a 1.5 to 5x scope on that fully rifled barrel with great results.
Does anyone mount Weaver rails on slug barrels in the forward position on a slug barrel? If not, I'm going to have to apply for a patent and hire a gunsmith.
Thanks