Well, it seems my front mounting point has some problems. I got a chance to shoot some today. After bore sighting, the first shot was 4 inches high, 1.5" left. I kept moving the reticle, but the shots kept hitting in same area. Either my groups were more patterns or something is flexing and not returning to the same preshot position. I know the reticle was moving as the old Alaskan doesn't have a perma center reticle and I could see it had moved. After 9 shots, always moving the reticle down and left between each shot, the last one hit touching the first one! There's a fellow on ebay selling a scout scope mount that replaces the rear sight, I might go with that and use a LER scope. Guy's name is Peter, and he rebuilds sporterized Krags. I had to share with him some of Dick Hosmericon's knowledge of Kragicon sight screw threads. With his mount, one is expected to rethread the holes. A metric 4x1.0 is about the right thread, but the standard now is M4x.07 which is too fine. They used to make the M4X1.0, I have an old Japaneseicon made .22 scope mount with screws that fit the Krag sight screw holes perfectly.