Maybe I just have bad luck. I noticed that I had a hard time getting the reticle to line up with the bore on my M1A so I took off my ARMS 18 mount and put it rails down on a glass table top. It rocks back and forth between 2 corners (not flat) . I hope ARMS will fix it, I bought it used from another forum.
Next, I order a mount from EGW for my Tikka M595. As I am about to install the mount, I notice that the screws don't want to thread. I take them out and compare them with the screws that were factory installed in the rifle. The thread pitch is way different. So I call up EGW to ask what the problem is. The guy on the phone says that my rifle must have been tapped to a different thread by a gunsmith (which I know did not happen). He says that the correct thread should be M3.5 x 0.6mm which I is close to what I measured with a pair of calipers on the factory screws. The screws that were sent with my mount were #6-48 which I don't think is used much in Finland (metric system?). Anyways, I finally talk him into sending me replacement screws. 10 days later they haven't shown up so I send an e-mail asking if they have been sent. I receive an e-mail back saying that they must have been lost in the mail and that they will send another set. 5 days later, 2 sets of screws show up (that have been postmarked the same day!) and both sets are still the wrong screws. Now I have to figure out where the hell I can get M3.5 screws since EGW can't send them, McMaster-Carr and McFaddendales don't have them.
So why is this so hard?
Next, I order a mount from EGW for my Tikka M595. As I am about to install the mount, I notice that the screws don't want to thread. I take them out and compare them with the screws that were factory installed in the rifle. The thread pitch is way different. So I call up EGW to ask what the problem is. The guy on the phone says that my rifle must have been tapped to a different thread by a gunsmith (which I know did not happen). He says that the correct thread should be M3.5 x 0.6mm which I is close to what I measured with a pair of calipers on the factory screws. The screws that were sent with my mount were #6-48 which I don't think is used much in Finland (metric system?). Anyways, I finally talk him into sending me replacement screws. 10 days later they haven't shown up so I send an e-mail asking if they have been sent. I receive an e-mail back saying that they must have been lost in the mail and that they will send another set. 5 days later, 2 sets of screws show up (that have been postmarked the same day!) and both sets are still the wrong screws. Now I have to figure out where the hell I can get M3.5 screws since EGW can't send them, McMaster-Carr and McFaddendales don't have them.
So why is this so hard?
