French MC52 clone scope Mounts

[tower06]

Anyone have experience with these? How do they hold up. Ordered one and am waiting on delivery. Will be mounting a commercial Kollmorgen 4x on a rifle build in .308.

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[Mark in Rochester]

I purchased some t4 Rings and aluminum Griffin and Howe mount - Stripped it for parts (levers, springs, stop screw and bar) and had a friend machine up the base

[tower06]

I purchased some t4 Rings and aluminum Griffin and Howe mount - Stripped it for parts (levers, springs, stop screw and bar) and had a friend machine up the base

G&H is making new steel M1C mounts here at their store in NJ. This one is an all steel MC52. May take it up to their shop to have it mounted up. Hoping someone can machine up some clone external knobs for my scope. Hate the standard.

[Mark in Rochester]

G&H is making new steel M1C mounts here at their store in NJ. This one is an all steel MC52. May take it up to their shop to have it mounted up. Hoping someone can machine up some clone external knobs for my scope. Hate the standard.

the external knobs consist of 6 major parts and having someone make a set of 2 would be Very expensive in the thousands of dollars

[tower06]

the external knobs consist of 6 major parts and having some one make a set of 2 would be Very expensive in the thousands of dollars

Not familiar with the individual internal components, but what I was thinking was to have an external knob fashioned with similar aesthetics, that internally would mate up with the slot on the existing turrets and could be fastened with longer screws using the existing screw holes. Not sure how to get the audible clicks to work. Have an idea in my head on how to make it work but Im not a machinist, just a nurse practitioner. Trying to make it so its more user friendly to me.

[ssgross]

G&H is making new steel M1C mounts here at their store in NJ. This one is an all steel MC52.

Saw the price tag on those. And the way they branded them is pretty ugly too. Would be nice if they reproduced the original markings, perhaps with a couple slight deviations in spacing to make it easy to tell the originals from these.

I have handled a couple of the Sarco repop sets. The hole locations of the bases are darn near perfect, but you need to instal and grind the locating taper pins. If you have an original base on, say, a CMP rifle, you will find the dovetail on the repop top to be about 10 thous. too tight. But...if you are handy and patient with a good file and stone, you can make it fit perfectly. Last I checked G&H charged something like $695ish for this service on their aluminum mounts and a turnaround window of 6 months (I called several years ago, before long before the recent news of making all-steel mounts)

[tower06]

I purchased some t4 Rings and aluminum Griffin and Howe mount - Stripped it for parts (levers, springs, stop screw and bar) and had a friend machine up the base

Any pics of the setup?

[Mark in Rochester]

Any pics of the setup?

The front lever should be left hand thread the shop made it right hand thus the home made front lever

The engineering drawing for the base can be found here



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United States Marine Corps Mount, Telescope, Rifle, MC-1, Blueprints; MC 1952, Sniper Rifle, Caliber .30 (Garand) - This compendium of blueprints shows all parts of the MC-1 mount used on the USMC MC 1952 Sniper Rifle. This MC 1952 rifle was the standard sniper for the Marine Corps from approximately the end of the Korean War into the 1960s. The MC-1 telescope mount assembly was used with the Model 4XD-USMC Smith-Kollmorgen telescope sight. This compendium includes all drawings associated with the telescope mount assembly that the USMC maintained. It was quite the pain finding and then getting these drawings from the USMC without distribution restrictions! This 20 page 8-1/2" X 11" booklet compliments "Marine Corps Stock List SL-4-02408A / Mount, Telescope, Rifle, MC-1 Repair Parts List" and "Marine Corps Technical Manual (Ordnance) TM-OR-02408A-15/Operation and Maintenance For Mount, Telescope, Rifle, MC-1" - also available at Nicolaus Associates. The paper is 24# bright white (102+) with the book being plastic wire bound. This book can be placed on the shelf in your workshop for easy reference. The book also opens and lays flat, so you can work on your rifle and observe your manual simultaneously.