Parker Hale mounts and a straight-tube scope. There is a whole thread about faux sniper scopes, and most of those scopes mentioned are a good choice.
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Even more intriguing to me than the mounting stability is the affect of the deflection of the action upon firing would have on a well clamped scope tube over a fair number of cycles. The No.32 bracket's rear contact surfaces have some built in fore and aft "slippage" and it's robust construction would prevent transference of most strain to the scope tube proper.
BTW, it's more than a purely theoretical concern, I've seen more than one commercial scope that's failed through it's turret! (One piece designs-not so much, but I THINK Pecar tubes are assembled to the turret like most of the time period.)
There is no in built 'slippage' with the No32 bracket JM because the bracket is fixed onto the dowel-like spigot on the front pad. So fore and aft movement is limited to NIL! Just a small point because it is the front spigot and rear dovetail that ensure that the sight will always correctly re-align on reassembly. We had a wall chart to test for this.
Incidentally, the front spigots could and did shear off during recoil but there was a repair procedure in place. The spigot had to be a stonking good fit (that's another REME technical phrase for PERFECT mechanical fit) into the corresponding hole in the bracket.
Pete, nothing wrong with he Leyland P76 collectors item now, you woulld have to trade an enforcer, maybe two now for a good one.
Myles
Go on, what's a Leyland P-76? That's not the Rover 3.5 litre that the poms called the SD-1 is it. When I was in Australia, we thought that BMC (for British Motor Corporation) stood for bloody mooka crap. Happy days............. I saw Rockhampton mentioned in the recent flooding and thought to myself, after having spent many weeks there and Canungra, that it couldn't have happened to a nicer place
I reckoned that the rear dovetail might slide fore and aft a few thousandths under recoil, but return when the load was removed. However, if the rear is locked from movement (dang, I can think of a fairly simple hydraulic test stand w/ a dial indicator that could test it, IF I could afford to potentially tear up a rifle!!) it would load the front spigot- leading to possible eventual shear failure...
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I saw Rockhampton mentioned in the recent flooding and thought to myself, after having spent many weeks there and Canungra, that it couldn't have happened to a nicer place
I agree with Peter: a Mickey Mouse setup if ever there was one. However, if you get the steel bases, not the laughable pot metal ones, and solder the front base onto the barrel ring, and solder the screws in too, you're as well set as most other cheap commercial scope mounts.
Collimation? Forget it. Zero at one range and be thankful for that!