Scope on vintage rifles

[Rookie]

So I'm trying to mount a scope on a Yugo Mauser carbine without modification and bought a mount and rings from Accumounts. They sell mounts for all types of vintage rifles. The mount replaces the rear sight. It came with no instructions so I emailed the company but what they sent made no sense and no torque specs. After watching some YouTube vids of similar setups I got mine done and mounted a Vortex Surefire Scout Scope. Made the 4th trip to the range to zero. The gun shows real potential for accuracy but I'm not happy with the Accumount. It keeps shooting loose. Every time it shoots loose I retighten and use plenty of blue thread locker.

The mount design allows windage and elevation adjustment but the thread locker negates that. Now I've stripped 1 screw and broken the head off another and am ready to throw the thing in the trash. Also the QD rings that Accumount sent are stupid tall. Can anyone recommend another source for a no drill mount?

 

[tomcatmv]

I've had similar problems with a scout mount on a Mosin 91-30 and haven't found a good no drill solution. Nice looking rifle by the way.

 

[Rookie]

Thanks Tom, it is proving to be a real shooter, now if I can just get this mount figured out. I bought an Accumount for my K31 that is solid so far.

 

[Rookie]

Does anyone have experience with Badace mounts? Looks similar to the Accumount but without windage adjustment.

 

[C4N4DIAN]

I had good success with badace mounts on my k31. Have not tried their mauser mounts though.

 

[Greg Langelius *]

I tried all the readily available Mosin scope mounts. They all came loose, and I decided that they were completely useless for heavy usage.

For my Mosin Scout mounts, I drove out the pins retaining the rear sights. It involved a lot of resoaking and waiting with CRC-56 to get them out; I figure an average of a week soaking per rear sight.

I'm not sure whether a similar pins/dovetail arrangement lurks beneath the Mauser mount.

What remains is a pair of grooves atop the barrel that are very close to the dimensions for a 22lr dovetail groove mount. I then mounted heavy duty Air Rifle Rings directly to these dovetails. I think I used High or Extra High profile rings. This produced a very solid mount that attached the scope directly to the barrel.

I employed them to mount a higher quality pistol scope. These days, I'd prefer this Vortex.

To me the advantage was not so much in getting a good sight picture (although the Burris was a lot clearer than those Amazon Chinese scopes), as it was in providing a decent incremental and repeatable no drill sight adjustment system.

Whatever mods I made to my Mosins, the primary requirement was that the changes did not require altering the Mosins themselves in any way. The mods must allow the original rifle to be completely restored back to its original condition.

Greg

 

[sandwarrior]

I run that exact Burris on my 7mmTCU on a Thompson Center G2.