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Nice to see craftsmanship like that. Well done!
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03-27-2018 05:38 AM
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That is impressive and flawless! Well done.
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You and your Engineer done an excellent job there.
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It clearly took a lot of patience, but what a result! I would say there is a certain grace and balance with this match.
Last edited by IanS; 03-29-2018 at 05:50 AM.
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Outstanding, working from a drawing or drawings is one thing but a drawing with only one size and no other is something else. Although I've a P14 barrelled action which I'm converting to .22, its given me an idea for the sighting system 
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Peter, it might be worth mentioning that the friend of mine who did the mounting job isn't even a gunsmith! But I am quite confident that he is better than most gunsmiths around here.
Attached are two pictures of my left in the white reference mount, to see how much file and needle hammer treating I had to give it.
PS: should I get so stupid and give the No. 42 mount for the P.14 a try.... ? 
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I've no doubt you'll weaken & do it......!
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I've no doubt you'll weaken
If one of those fell into my hands, I could see me stretching myself to do it too...
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that is impressive well done you can not beat time and patience
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You have certainly "antiqued" it to perfection and it would fool the most expert without your "confession"!
What strikes me is how much more robust the mounts are than the No.4(T), in particular the front spigot. I doubt one of those would ever shear off. The much larger locating shoulder is very noticeable as well. I assume this was designed by the same people who designed the No.4(T) mounting system, so the change between the two is interesting.
The problem of the front pad being the only directly opposed stop to the recoil of the scope and mount persists. I really don't know why it does, but we could guess that the beefed up front pad was at attempt to address that.
That said, the front base width and attachment actually does not look sufficient for the leverages exerted to me; two screws and a base twice as wide would have been better on the side where the scope mounts.
They're a fine rifle and I know you have a particular liking for them. Have fun at the range! (I'm assuming it's collimated?)
Last edited by Surpmil; 04-03-2018 at 12:17 AM.
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